What is the best thing about being a musician? The joy of making music.
When and where was your first project with the MCO? Venice 2000. I think it was in September - what a great project it was.
Can you tell us something about your instrument? It was found in the attic with...a little mouse living inside (it got there through an f-hole making it a bit bigger). I don't know what happened with this poor animal (I hope it's not homeless) but my violin sounds great.
If you could play another instrument what would it be? Cello or harp.
What do you need to feel at home whilst on tour? When I'm on tour without my family...a good cup of tea in my hotel room and a book.
BIOGRAPHY Katarzyna Wozniakowska was born in 1976 in Piekary Slaskie, a city in the South of Poland. She began her music education at the age of seven and fell in love with playing violin from the first day. This fortunate admiration lasts till today.
From the very beginning of her education she has met teachers who knew how to sustain and develop this feeling in her. Her first teachers were Ernest Dobiosz, Jacek Siemek and Roland Orlik - teachers at the Music School in Bytom.
Katarzynas adventure with the orchestra also started at school: at the age of nine she made her debut in an orchestra consisting of viola, two cellos and… twenty-five violins! And although it is hard to believe: Since that moment she has dreamt of becoming an orchestral musician.
Not even eight years passed and her dream came true – she became a member of Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
In 1994 she went to study in Warsaw where she is still living today. Here she met her husband and in 2005 gave birth to their son, Bruno.
At the Warsaw Academy of Music Katarzyna studied under Professor Krzysztof Podejko. In the years 1996-1999 she played the first violin of Le Stagioni string quartet, with which she participated in master classes run by such quartets as Amadeus, Medici and Camerata. She enriched her orchestral experience by cooperating with the best Polish chamber orchestras: Symfonia Varsovia and Concerto Avenna.
In 1999 she was invited to the Polish Festival Orchestra created and led by Krystian Zimerman.In 2000 Katarzyna started playing with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and became a member of the orchestra in 2005.KATARZYNA'S PERFORMANCES WITH MAHLER CHAMBER SOLOISTS
