International Master Competition
for Music Teachers

PhD DSc Katarzyna Bąkowska – graduated with honors from the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in the class of Henryk Keszkowski. She is currently working on the position of associate professor in the same university, leading the violin class. She is also a teacher in F. Chopin State Music Schools  in Warsaw as well as she is a lecturer of the master music courses (i.a.  in Radziejowice). She sits on the jury of violin competitions. The violinist improved her skills at postgraduate studies in Indiana School of Music (Bloomington, USA) in a class of Henryk Kowalski and Franco Gulli. In 2012, she finished a three-year art internship in the Department of Piano Chamber Music directed by prof. Maya Nosowska in UMFC in Warsaw. She received scholarships from several institutions promoting talented artists, including Ministry of Culture and Arts, Culture Foundation, the French Government, the Kosciuszko Foundation, Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation, Warsaw Foundation for Culture, FAME Festival & School Foundation and from the Conservatory in Lausanne and Nice. She won the first award in the category of String Instruments, the Grand Prix in Chamber Music and the Special Award for the best performance of Polish composer (Duetto Lirico A. Kurylewicz along with the pianist Ewa Skardowska) during the First International Competition for Teachers (Warsaw, 2013). She is the T. Wronski finalist  for solo violin (1995). She participated in the music festivals and concerts, i.a. during the Mozart Festival in Wroclaw, Concert of the Year in the Porczyński Gallery, Philharmonic Halls in Opole, Cracow, the Royal Baths Park, Musica Sacra in Sopot, Summer Festival in Bloomington, Fame Festival in Lawrencaville. She took part also in master classes of interpretation in Poland, France, Switzerland and the USA, working next to the above mentioned with John Stanienda, Eric Friedman, Gerard Poulet, Dong-Suk Kang, Pierre Amoyal. In activities of the violinist a special place occupies the chamber recitals from the Baroque to contemporary music. A particularly close for her is the work with Polish composers: Szymanowski, Wieniawski and Paderewski (recording of the Sonata in A minor). The artist was performing i.a. in Chicago (Nord Shores Center for Performing Arts) as well as on the special invitation of H. Kowalski in Bloomington (duos for violin and cello of Koday and Ravel, Polish Baroque: Jarzębski, Zieleński i Żelechowski). The versatility of her interests is complemented by construction of ancient music (i.a. with Urszula Bartkiewicz, Anna Sawicka, Dorota Zimna and Antoni Birula).