soprano, violin & organ
About Us
Katarzyna Kucia
is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Cracow (2015) where she studied under Ewa Wolak at Voice and Drama Faculty. She is also PhD candidade at the Jagiellonian University.
She started her vocal education under dr Katarzyna Jagiello and mgr Agnieszka Kołodziejczyk. During studies she performed solo part in a concert version of opera “Fairy Queen” by Henry Purcell under the direction of Paul Esswood. She also sang solo concert with Giovanile Diego Valeri Orchestra under the baton of Giuseppe Laudani in 2011 in Cracow. She made her opera debut in student's spectacle in Cracow Opera. Katarzyna is especially interested in performance of baroque music as soprano and mezzo-soprano. She performs with several polish early music ensembles: Antica Cucina, Il vento, Collegium Cracoviense. She trained her vocal skills during master classes guided by outstanding singers and teachers: Christian Elssner, Ryszard Karczykowski, Mariusz Kwiecien, Ihor Kuszpler, Agnieszka Rehlis and Marek Rzepka.
Artur Łuczak
Violinist, violist, fiddleist. He aptly deals with the performance in the scope of the Early Music – from the Medieval times to the late Baroque. He is the co-founder of the Floripari group – Studium Musicae Cracoviense (The Early Music Ensemble from Wawel Royal Castle in Cracow) in which he plays the baroque violin, viola and fiddle. He is also a part of the Antica Cucina group and the Early-Music oriented Musica Poliphonica ensemble.
More contemporary compositions are also familiar to him, as he also takes part in the projects of young groups like Passionart or Dumicz Ensemble. Furthermore, he is the organizer for the musical movements in St. Catherine Church in Cracow.
His skills were honed under the tutelage of such masters as Clare Salamann, Micaela Comberti, Pauline Nobes, Judy Tarling and Sirkka-Lissa Kaakinen. He participated in numerous Early-Music mastery courses, e.g.: Dartington Summer School, Early Music Wales, Cambridge Summer School.
He created many various CD recordings together with Floripari, Goldberg Baroque Ensemble and as well as “Barocco Con Fuoco” [“The Four Seasons”] in cooperation with George Telemann's Orchestra.
Kamil Mika
Kamil Mika was born on 1987 in Cracow. He took his master’s degree of Organ Performance from Academy of Music in Cracow under Prof. Andrzej Bialko. He continued his music studies in Hochschule für Musik in Mainz (Germany) with Prof. Gerhard Gnann. He has also attended in several organ masterclasses in Poland, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and United States with such professors as: Olivier Latry, Daniel Roth, Harald Vogel, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Guy Bovet, Pieter van Dijk, David Titterington, Jane Parker-Smith, Philippe Delacour nad Paul Jacobs.
He won First Prize on X International Organ Competition in Castellana Grotte (Italy, 2011) and Third Prize in National Competition of Organ and Chamber Music “Per Artem ad Astra” in Krasnobrod (Poland, 2007). He played on many music festivals in Poland, Germany, Austria (St. Peter’s in Vienna), Italy, Spain (Cathedral of Barcelona), Portugal and Lithuania, as soloist and cameralist as well.
In 2013 he recorded for a CD – Project “Spanische Barockorgel an der Hochschule für Musik Mainz” on a new spanish organ by Joaquín Lois Cabello from Castile. His repertoire concentrates on music of all epocs, especially Bach, Franck, Duruflé and many polish composers. One of points of his research is Impressionism in french organ music.