Patrycja Staszek - violinist, was born in 1999 and is currently a student of Robert Kabara in Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland). She began her musical training when she was 7 and since then, music has become her greatest passion.
Patrycja was a participant in many national and international competitions,
and garnered many awards. She has performed with the orchestra at “La Folle Journee” in Warsaw, in Bydgoszcz and in Krosno. Patrycja is also a member of a string quartet with whom she played dozens of concerts among others in the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra chamber hall in Katowice and in Wolfsburg. She is also a part of the International Orchestra Project ESYO in Italy. Patrycja is studying at Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. She is a scholarship holder of “Polish Rising Music Stars” and “E-bank Talentów”
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Prince Edward Island,
released October 10, 2021
Violin: Patrycja Staszek
Piano: Weronika Staszek
Weronika Staszek - pianist, currently is a student of Prof. Piotr Banasik at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland). She was born in 1998. She started to playing piano at age 7 at Music School in Bielsko-Biała. From 2017 to 2020 she studied at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland).
Artistic achievements of Weronika include:
-2nd place in the 5th National Competition for Young Instrumentalists - Jasło 2010,
-2nd place in the Piano Competition - Wieliczka 2010,
-Honorable Mention in the International Competition "Chopin for the Youngest" -Antonin 2010,
-3rd place in the 7th National Forum of Young Instrumentalists - Rybnik 2012,
-1st place in the 5th Gdynia Piano Chamber Music Competition "Piano and ..." - Gdynia 2015,
-3rd place at the International Piano Talents Competition - Milan 2018.
She participated in pianistic courses led by Andrzej Jasiński, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Akiko Ebi, Eugen Indjic, Dimitri Vassilakis and Lev Natochenny.
Weronika also took part in a series of master classes organized by the PRO BONO Foundation and the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice - "EUROPA U BRAM", working under the guidance of teachers such as: Dimitri Baszkirow, Fabio Bidini, Siegfried Mauser.
In 2019, Weronika took part in the "Piano Loop Festival" in Split.