Organizational / Artistic Director of the Festival, as well as First Horn with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. Former solo horn with the OMN Ensemble of Katowice, Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra in Warsaw, and “ROMA” Musical Theatre in Warsaw.

Graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice.  He has perfected his skills at numerous instrumentalist workshops. He performed at many international festivals of contemporary music: Warsaw Autumn, Velvet Curtain (Lviv), Melos – Ethos (Bratislava). He has participated in many premieres and recordings of contemporary music. Performed in concert with the leading ensembles of contemporary music: Ensemble Court – Circuit from Paris and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain from Lyon. He played concerts with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Works with the greatest orchestras in Poland: Warsaw Philharmonic, The Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, Beethoven Academy Orchestra (Cracow), Sinfonietta Cracovia, AUKSO – Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot, and Pan European Philharmonia. He is the founder and member of Hornet Quartet and has conducted the organizational activity of the ensemble for the last five years. He co-created the educational-musical project WarHorns which produced a piece for 10 horns, a tribute to the victims of World War II, composed by Paweł Pudło. The project, which premiered at Solidarity of Arts in Gdańsk on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, was realized with participation of outstanding horn players. In 2020 he finished his post-graduate culture management studies at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

Artistic / Organizational Director of the Festival. He started studying French horn in the class of Ivan Moroz and continued with prof. Christian-Friedrich Dallman at the Berlin Art Academy (Universität der Künste Berlin). He has won numerous prizes at international contests, including Markneukirchen, Prague Spring, Sannicandro di Bari, as well as Łódź and Gdańsk. He received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture of Poland, the “Young Poland” Program, the Mayor of Zielona Góra, and the Lubusz Voivodeship Marshall, Jütting Stiftung, Paul Paul Hindemith Gesellschaft, Ad Infinitum Foundation. A former member of the celebrated Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He works with Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchester zu Leipzig, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatsoper Hamburg, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Sinfonia Varsovia, SHMF Orchester, Bachakademie Stuttgart, Verbier Festival Orchestra, and others. Currently he is a second solo horn player with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester).

Solo bassoon of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic and also a founder and member of the LutosAir Quintet, one the resident ensembles of the National Forum of Music.

Born in Toronto, she is a graduate of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart and the University of Music. F. Chopin in Warsaw. In 2011, she also completed post-graduate studies in Stuttgart with honors.

She was a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture, the National Children’s Fund, DAAD and the Villa Musica chamber music foundation (Germany). She has participated in many masterclasses. As a chamber and orchestra musician, she has performed in most European countries, in the United States, China, Japan and Egypt. She has collaborated with with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Opera in Hamburg and Stuttgart, Kammerorchester Heilbronn and Mannheim, chamber orchestras AUKSO and NFM Leopoldinum.

In 2006–2009 she was a bassoonist and contrabassoonist at the Grand Theater of the National Opera in Warsaw; in 2009–2011 she was a solo bassoonist of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra.