Baroque Concert, 1 July 2024 in Collegium Maius
Performers
Elżbieta Górka (violin)
Elżbieta Górka is graduate of the Academy of Music in Kraków in the violin class of Prof. R. Reiner. She plays the baroque violin and viola. With the Quartetto Pollaco ensemble, she recorded the first album in Poland with compositions by Astor Piazzolla. Since 1989, she is a member of the Capella Cracoviensis chamber orchestra.
She has performed as a solo and chamber musician in Poland and abroad with Capella Cracoviensis, the Jagiellonian Quartet, the Saint Stanislaw Trio and Quartet, with the MLAMD orchestra, with the L'Estate Armonico ensemble, with the Przemyśl Chamber Orchestra, Les Sacqueboutiers, Consortium Sedinum and Risonanza. With the Jagiellonian Quartet, she was nominated for the "Fryderyk" award for recording the complete quartets by Marek Stachowski.
Konrad Górka (cello)
Konrad Górka – cellist, graduate of the Academy of Music in Kraków and Musikhochschule in Würzburg. After graduating, he was the co-founder and first cellist of the Consortium Iagellonicum - the University Baroque Orchestra, playing on old instruments, and the Quartet and Trio of St. Marcin.
He has performed the first Polish performance of Bach's Suite 6 in D-major in the original version written for baroque piccolo violoncello. He has performed and recorded albums with many Polish early and contemporary music ensembles, including: Il Tempo, Arte dei Suonatori, Floripari, Quartet and Trio of St. Stanisław, Studium Musicae Cracoviense, Intermezzo, Floripari, Consortium Sedinum, Risonanza, Solo e Tutti, Harmonologia, Ensemble XIX. Since 1986, he has been a permanent member of the Capella Cracoviensis chamber orchestra. He is the winner of the Fryderyk 2006 award in the Chamber Music category for an album with Astor's music Piazzoli, recorded with Kevin Kenner and the Piazzoforte band.
Tomasz Potaczek (traverso flute)
Tomasz Paweł Potaczek in the year 2009 graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Kraków. He studied traverso flute taught by Małgorzata Wojciechowska and later by Peter Holtslag. From the very beginning of his studies he participated in numerous early music courses conducted by, among others, Rachel Brown, Lucie Duškova, Peter Holtslag, Jana Semerádova, Jed Wentz and Małgorzata Wojciechowska. He is a member of the Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Ludwik Stefański Music Society. As traverso flutist, he is a co-founder of the early music ensemble, Estravaganza. Moreover, he cooperates with a court ensemble Consortium Sedinum, Capella Cracoviensis, Kraków Philharmonic, as well as early music ensembles such as Ensamble Barocum, Risonanza, Intrada and Cracovia Danza Court Ballet. In 2003, Tomasz Potaczek completed studies in psychology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is a member of the Polish Psychologist's Association and the Polish Association for Psychodynamic Therapy, and since 2004 he has been working as a psychologist and psychotherapist, developing at the same time his musical abilities and giving concerts. As of 2005 Tomasz Paweł Potaczek participates in many stage performances as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral flutist in the country as well as abroad (the Netherlands, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine and Slovenia).
Anna Śliwa (violin, viola d'amore)
Anna Śliwa
a violinist of manifold interests, an enthusiast of musical education of small children. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow, having studied contemporary and baroque violin performance there. She specializes in solo and chamber music repertoire of old music and also in improvised performing of pre-Renaissance and ethnical musical treasures. She plays the violin and other bow instruments, such as the viola, pochette, fiddle, viola d'amore, and lira da braccio. Together with Camerata Cracovia ensemble she has made the first performance of newly discovered works written by polish-german composer of 17th century, Henryk Doebelius. She collaborates with the majority of polish early music ensembles, including Ars Cantus, Concerto Polacco, Il Tempo, and with the austrian ensemble Pandolfis Consort Wien. Since 2007 she leads the historical instruments ensemble Intrada, cooperating strictly with the court ballet Cracovia Danza, performing mainly music connected with dance and other forms of stage performance. In 1992-95 she worked with Capella Cracoviensis as a violinist and during 2001-04 she was the violist of Warsaw Chamber Opera Old Instruments Ensemble Musicae Antique Collegium Varsoviense. She took part in many disc recordings and in many prestigious festivals, Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Arte sintesi Enschede, Wratislavia Cantans, Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge, International Contemporary Music Festival Warsaw Autumm among others. She performed during EXPO 2003 and Polish Year in Paris. Her another area of activity is teaching the violin. She teaches violin performance in Karłowicz Music High School in Krakow, she also teaches baroque violin performance in Rutkowski Music High School in Kraków.
