CHAPTER MEETING PRESENTER

Agnieszka Schulz-Brzyska

Well-known and Less-known Polish Composers

BIOGRAPHY

A smooth and balanced sound with beautifully shaped phrases like the rolling hills of Poland”

Agnieszka impresses in this music with a strong sense of atmosphere and real flair for dance elements. She breathes the life into forgotten pieces...” 

- Reviews of piano works Volume 5, Act Prealable, AP 0474

Agnieszka Schulz-Brzyska is a concert pianist, recorded artist, chamber musician, educator, professor and scholar whose artistic life has been devoted to performance, teaching, research, and promotion of Polish musical heritage.

She is a Professor, Head of Piano Department in the Institute of Arts Studies at the John Paul the II Catholic University of Lublin and President of the Lublin Branch of the Polish Association of Music Artists and initiator of Fonie Lublina, an annual concert series.  

She completed her Masters at Frederyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw Poland.  She also completed post graduate management and post doctoral degree in _____________.  She studied and worked under distinguished pianists and teachers including Kazimierz Gierżod, Maja Nosowska, Ryszard Bakst, Tatiana Shebanova, Jean-Claude van den Eynden, Olivier Gardon and composer himself Witold Lutoslawski. 

Agnieszka dedicated her artistic activity to the musical heritage of composers associated with the Lublin region.  She performed and recorded works by Prosper Zborowski, Bogdan Wallek-Walewski, Stanisław Wielhorski, Stanisław Niewiadomski, and Kazimierz Sikorski, Jozef Wieniawski, Andrzej Nikodemowicz and many other Polish composers whose music deserves renewed recognition.   

Her concert activity to present Polish music to the world took her to Germany, France, Slovakia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, China, Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Palestine, and Ukraine. She has performed not just as a solo performer but as a chamber musician with many distinguished singers associated with international opera stages.

Her artistic, educational, and cultural activities have been recognized with numerous distinctions, including the Distinguished Cultural Activist Medal, the Medal of the Mayor of Lublin, the Silver Badge of the Polish Association of Music Artists, the Honorary Badge “Meritorious for Polish Culture,” and the Golden Cross of Merit.  She was also nominated for the “For the Promotion of Culture” Award.