Accompanists

LARISA CZABAN

Pianist and chamber musician. She graduated with honours from the S. Prokofiev Academy of Music in Donetsk (Ukraine). Since 1998, she has been associated with the Silesian Opera in Bytom as a répétiteuse for soloists. She has frequently accompanied singers during international and national competitions. She has made numerous recordings for the Polish Radio and Television. She is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Pianists – Laureates of International Competitions. Her repertoire includes over 70 operas, operettas, and musicals (piano reductions) as well as numerous chamber pieces.

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MICHA GOŁAWSKI


 

Pianist, an opera singer, a vocal tutor. A graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, in the piano class of prof. Andrzej Jasiński. He has won competitions in Poland and abroad. He received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and Arts and from the Mayor of Katowice. He participated in piano courses of such outstanding personalities as: Krystian Zimerman, Zbigniew Raubo, Józef Stompel, Joseph Bannovetz, Aleksei Orlovetzky and Lee Kum Sing.

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MIRELLA MALORNY-KONOPKA

A graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, in the piano class of prof. Wojciech Świtała and the chamber music class of prof. Regina Strokosz-Michalak. She collaborates with outstanding singers-soloists from the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, the Krakow Opera, the Silesian Opera, the Wrocław Opera, and the Poznań Opera, as well as instrumentalists from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the New York City Opera, the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, and the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice.

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ROMAN MARCHENKO

A pianist and a répétiteur. Born in Lviv, he graduated from the M. Lysenko Academy of Music in Lviv. During his studies, he began working as an accompanist and a chamber musician. In 2016, he became a laureate of the V. Povzun Competition of Chamber Ensembles in Odessa (Ukraine). In 2019, he received a special prize at the ProArt-2019 International Piano Competition – a workshop and a concert in Vienna, as well as a scholarship from the Esperus Art Fund to participate in the Esperus Music Academy (Monpazier, France).

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