In 2003 she got her diploma at the department of Chamber Music of G. and K. Bacewicz Musical Academy in the chamber music class of professor Krystyna Hussar-Moczulska. In 2005 under direction of professor Maria Korecka–Soszkowska she became a postgraduate from Postgraduate Master Studies of Łódź Musical Academy specializing in playing the grand piano. In May 2011 she received a doctor’s degree of musical arts concerning Instrumentalist in the specialty of playing the grand piano at Cracow Musical Academy.
Agata Górska is an employee of G. and K. Bacewicz Musical Academy in Łódź. She works at the department of Grand Piano, Harpsichord, Organs and Ancient Instruments as well as at Vocal and Actor’s Department where, since October 2012, she has been a deputy Dean.
Between 2004 and 2009 she conducted piano classes at I.J. Paderewski National Musical School of I and II degree in Piotrków Trybunalski and Tansman Musical School in Łódź.
She is a teacher of piano contests’ winners and an accompanist of vocal contests’ winners:
- Joanna Pawlas – Spring Meetings by the Piano at Cracow Musical Academy, April 2012
- Piotr Płuska – numerous awards in Polish National and international contests
Didur International Contest Bytom
Fijałkowska International Contest in Wrocław
Slavonic Music Contest in Katowice
H. Halska Contest in Duszniki Zdrój
Agnieszka Wasilewska – I. Borowicka Operette Contest in Cracow
Agata Górska was also a music juror – consultant in two editions of French Song Festival in Łódź organized together with the Embassy of France in Poland.
Prizes and rewards
She is a winner of the Second Prize (the first one was not awarded) at the International Piano Contest in Druskienniki (2012), Third Prize at the International Piano Contest for Young Performers (Helsingor-Denmark 2001) and the winner of numerous prizes and the words for the best accompanists at: IX H. Słoniowska Local Contest in Duszniki Zdrój -
H. Halska V Vocal Contest in Wrocław (international edition 2009) and
XI Intermural Vocal Contest “In the circle of Slavonic vocal music”, Katowice 2009
In her career so far she has received other honorable mentions at: V Polish National Festival DO-RE-MI in Łódź -
Local Pianists Review in Łódź -
Polish National Auditions in Olsztyn and
The First Polish National Piano Contest in Gdańsk
Concert, feature and organizational activity
Agata Górska has taken part in numerous concerts (solo and chamber) all over Poland, mainly in Warsaw, Łódź and nearby: as part of musical meetings “Music at Technical Academy” in the Mirrored Hall at Technical Academy of Łódź, as part of 1st Łódź Festival of Science and Art she performed in Concert Hall of A. Rubinstain Filharmony of Łódź. She also performed in the concert hall of the Museum of Łódź, and Herbst’s Palace in Łódź, in Court Interiors Museum in Tubądzin, Wrocław Opera House, Cracow Filharmony and she has recorded a radio broadcast in Polish Radio.
She has also given a lot of performances in Warsaw and nearby: in Żelazowa Wola, in Warsaw Musical Society in the Concert Hall of Chopin Society and at International Piano Festival “Musical Floralia- Music in flowers” in Botanic Garden of Polish Academy of Science in Powsin close to Warsaw.
In April 2004, a day before Poland’s joining the European Union, she had a piano recital of Chopin music in the building of European Committee in Brussels.
In summer 2006 she performed with Chopin recital in Bulgaria (Vellingrad), in autumn 2008 as an accompanist she took part in singers’ competition preliminaries to Francisco Vinas Singing Competition in Hamburg, in 2012 she gave a few performances in Lithuania.
In summer 2010 she was invited as an accredited pianist to cooperate with a famous singer Teresa Żylis-Gara, as part of her Master Contest of Vocal Techniques and Interpretations in Radziejowice.
Agata Górska is also and author of a chapter in the publication “In the circle of Chopin Music” untitled “Echoes of Chopin chamber music in I.F. Dobrzyński’s work”. In December 2012 her monograph “Brilliant Style in the Early Chromatic Polish music” will be published.
As part of the activity propagating culture, Agata Górska is the creator of Summer Musical Festival “Music on Polish Court” held in a historical manor in Dzierżązna near Łódź. She is also a member of Warsaw Musical Society and Music Initiatives Promotion Society OPERATIVA.
Participation in contests
Being a pianist as part of numerous contests she worked under direction of Irina Edelstein (Germany-Frankfurt), professor Tamara Russanowa (Russia-Moskow), professor Weronika Vitaite (Lithuania-Vilnius), professor Bronisława Kawallia, professor Zygmunt Krauze, professor Andrzej Jasiński and professor Udo Reinemann (Amsterdam).
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