Magdalena Bojanowicz
(Poland)
Magdalena Bojanowicz is holder of the Polityka Passport prize awarded each year by the Polityka weekly to artists and creators. She has won First Prize at the 45th Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade, 2015. She is also winner of Second Prize and two Special Prizes at the 8th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition in Warsaw. She graduated with honours from the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of Andrzej Bauer, and also from the University of Arts in Berlin with Jens Peter Maintz. She has performed amongst others at the Tonhalle in Zürich, Royal Festival Hall in London, Kolarac in Belgrade, the Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio in Warsaw, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. As a soloist she has performer with the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, National Polish Radio Symphonic Orchestra, the Wrocław National Music Forum Leopoldinum Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, AUKSO, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Sinfonia Iuventus, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. Sha has cooperated as soloist with directors: M. Caldi, G. Tchitchinadze, D. Smith, V. Schmidt-Gertenbach, R. Rivolta, M. Moś, M. Klauza, T. Wojciechowski, J. Kosek, M. Nesterowicz, P. Przytocki, W. Rodek, B. Suđić, B. Lack, E. Kovacic, J. Maria Florêncio. She has appeared at numerous Polish and international music festivals.
Her artistic ouvre includes premiere performances of symphonic pieces, among others: the Cello Concerto by Dariusz Przybylski (together with NOSPR, released by the DUX label), Dziennik zapisany w połowie by Aleksander Nowak (together with AUKSO, NMF), the Double Concerto by Hanna Kulenty (at the Eufonie Festival at the National Philharmonic together with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra), and Paweł Szymański’s Simple Music (with the Wrocław Philharmonic at the NFM).
In 2021 she recorded a monographic album with pieces by Cezary Duchnowski for cello and electronics. Together with the pianist – Radosław Kurek – she recorded an album Fairy Tale with compositions by Strauss, Janáček, Poulenc, Webern, Dutilleux and Ibert.
Magda Bojanowicz is an active soloist and chamber musician playing in Poland and abroad.