MONIKA GARDOŃ-PREINL (Krzysztof Penderecki nimeline Krakówi Muusikaakadeemia)
11. novembril kell 10.00-14.00 B-317

Monika Gardoń-Preinl is a pianist, outstanding specialist in the field of chamber music, long-term academic teacher and accompanist. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków in the class of prof. Stefan Wojtas. In 2013, she obtained a Habilitated Doctor Degree in Musical Arts. She is a laureate of many competitions (including winning the Stendhall Foundation Competition, Chopin Competitions in Darmstadt and Göttingen) and has taken part in master classes for pianists (Rudolf Kehrer, Rudolf Buchbinder). She has given solo and chamber concerts throughout the country and abroad (Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland). As a chamber musician, she has performed with many outstanding artists from around the world in significant concert halls, also during the most important music festivals (maestro Peter Lukas Graf, Wolfgang Pfistermuller, Magnus Nilsson, Carlsten Svanberg, Robert Kozanek, Nicola Mazzanti, Carlo Colombo, Janos Balint, Wally Hasse, Foroug Karimi Diafar Zadar, Jakub Jakowicz, Bartosz Koziak and others). After graduation, she joined her home university – the Academy of Music in Kraków, where currently she is a Vice Rector for Art and Science. She is both a performer and a teacher and the co-author of an innovative, three-part sight-reading textbook for secondary music school students (PWM 2017-2022).