Performers
Adrianna Kafel (cello)
Adrianna Maria Kafel is a Polish multi-instrumentalist. Adrianna was awarded her Master of Arts degree in Cello in 2016, following a period of study with Professor Dorota Imiełowska (Music Academy of Krakow, Poland). In 2014, thanks to the "Erasmus" scholarship program, she improved her skills at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna in the class of prof. Wolfgang Aichinger and a year later at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de A Coruña. During this time she was also the assistant of prof. Carolina Landriscini-Martinez. Her passion to music began to cross the border of classical music and she began to learn more about baroque music. That was the reason she began to study Baroque Cello with Professor Teresa Kamińska at the Music Academy of Krakow, Poland (Master of Arts degree in 2021). In addition, her interests evolve towards traditional folk music and she started to study Knee-Fiddle as a pupil of Professor Maria Pomianowska. Adrianna was awarded her Master of Arts degree in Knee-Fiddle in 2020.
Adrianna is an active orchestral and chamber musician. She performs as a soloist in Poland and abroad too. She is also a laureate of national and international competitions and festivals. She cooperated with many orchestras conductors incuding A. Liebreich, K. Penderecki, N. Marriner, Evelino Pidò and Christophe Rousset. She also performed as a member of the group on the latest Maria Pomianowska's album "Sukotherapy". Adrianna is a co-founder of „Wspak” duet which specializes in playing and singing traditional Slavic music .
Adrianna specializes in playing the cello, Baroque cello, Biłgoraj suka, Płocka fiddle, Bulgarian gadulka, Chinese er-hu, Mongolian morin-khuura, Indian sarangi and singing folk music.
Music is Adrianna’s passion which lead to broaden her musical horizones. She shares this passion with other music lovers.
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).
Joanna Solecka (harpsichord)
Joanna Solecka is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Kraków, with majors in Piano, Music Theory and Harpsichord. In her professional life she combines the experience she has gained in all these areas of her education and devotes herself to teaching as well as artistic activity and cultural promotion. She performs at festivals and concerts in Poland and abroad, performing chamber music and solo works. She has worked with the Kraków Philharmonic, Capella Cracoviensis, the Kraków Opera and the Cracovia Danza Court Ballet. She is the author of many entries in the PWM Edition Musical Encyclopaedia, as well as scientific publications. In collaboration with M. Kraft, she made the first translation into Polish of C. Ph. E. Bach's treatise Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (O prawdziwej sztuce gry na instrumentach klawiszowych, Astraia, Kraków 2017, 2nd rev. and exp. ed. 2020). In 2017, she received her PhD at the Academy of Music in Kraków for her thesis 'Partimento - duet of performer and composer, from sketch to improvisation and composition. Realisation of selected Partimenti by Bernardo Pasquini'. For her active and versatile work she has been awarded the badges Honoris Gratia and Meritorious for Polish Culture, as well as the Award of the Mayor of the City of Kraków.
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.
