Biography

The piano has been with me since childhood. First as a curiosity: an instrument larger than I was, whose sound filled the whole room. Later as a language, one in which it was easier to say the things I could not put into words.

My repertoire sits closest to Polish music. To Chopin, whom I seem to learn again every time I return to him, and to Szymanowski, in whom you can hear highland severity and French colour at once. Alongside them I return often to Debussy and Ravel, because they teach patience with sound.

I perform in Poland and abroad — in concert halls, and in smaller rooms where the audience sits within arm’s reach. I prefer the smaller rooms. A large hall softens everything; up close, every note is heard exactly as it was played. That is harder, and it is why I keep going back to it.

I teach the piano to children and to adults. It is the other half of the same work: finding the way for someone to hear the music in themselves before they are able to play it.