Duet: Marcin Świątkiewicz and Martyna Pastuszka

Performing together since 2005 in various configurations - as a duo, in chamber ensembles, and in orchestras (Arte dei Suonatori, Capella Cracoviensis, Parnassos, Alta Capella). They often meet to work on their repertoire even if they are not planning joint performances. Their latest joint project focuses on classical and early romantic music performed on a historical piano and violins with appropriate equipment for that period.

MARTYNA PASTUSZKA

Martyna Pastuszka received traditional education in modern violin and completed her master's studies in the class of Professor Roland Orlik at the Music Academy in Katowice. However, already in the early stages of her studies, she noticed the interpretative potential of historical performance and began learning to play the baroque violin. Shortly thereafter, she started participating in artistic projects of the Arte dei Suonatori orchestra. Since then, the artistic personality of the young violinist has been shaped by artists with whom she has collaborated: Peter Holman, Barthold Kuijken, Martin Gester, Kati Debretzeni, Hidemi Suzuki, Rachel Podger, Eduardo Lopez Banzo, Herve Niquet. As an orchestral musician and chamber player, she has worked for years with numerous early music orchestras in Europe, including: New Dutch Academy, Holland Baroque Society, Musica Antiqua Provence, Harmonologia, Le Concert Lorrain. Currently, in her artistic activity, Martyna Pastuszka combines the roles of soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. With care for expressiveness and precision, she shapes her playing style, whose main priorities are rhetoric, communicativeness, and clarity of agogic structures. In Poland, she collaborates with the Arte dei Suonatori orchestra, the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, and in France, with the Parisian orchestra Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, and since 2009, she has served as concertmaster and soloist of the Strasbourg orchestra Le Parlement de Musique under the direction of Martin Gester. With these ensembles, she has made numerous recordings for Polish Radio and Television, Radio France, Arte, Mezzo, and many of the recorded CDs and DVDs have received accolades from the music press and have been enthusiastically received by international music critics. Together with the ensemble Parnassos, which she founded in 2000, Martyna Pastuszka realizes her own artistic programs and projects. On historical instruments, she performs not only baroque music but also classical and romantic repertoire. Since 2007, she has been leading a baroque violin class at the Music Academy in Katowice.

MARCIN ŚWIĄTKIEWICZ

Marcin Świątkiewicz is a young, versatile musician. His interests focus on historical keyboard instruments, solo and ensemble improvisation in both early and contemporary styles, as well as composition. He developed his skills during his studies at the Music Academy in Katowice in the harpsichord class of Marek Toporowski and Marek Pilch, and in the composition class of Wiesław Cienciały, as well as at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in the harpsichord class of Jacques Ogg, basso continuo of Patrick Ayrton, and composition of Cornelis de Bondt and Calliope Tsoupaki. He is currently a doctoral student in Marek Toporowski's class. He has also participated in many masterclasses in Europe and America led by, among others, Menno van Delft, Martin Gester, Luca Guglielmi, Richard Egarr, Pierre Hantaï, Robert Hill, Włodzimierz Kłosiewicz, Skip Sempe, Christophe Rousset, and Aline Zylberajch. He has collaborated with, among others, Rachel Podger, Andrew Parrott, Enrico Onofri, Jaap Schröder, Paul Esswood, Enrico Gatti, Christina Pluhar, Patrick Ayrton, Peter van Heyghen, Peter Kooij, Charles Toet, Jan Tomasz Adamus, and Marek Moś. His inspirations come from both historical and contemporary musicological studies. He is close to the idea of a musician before the industrial revolution – a composer/performer/theorist/pedagogue. He approaches music not only as a performer and composer but also as an author of theoretical texts and a teacher. Marcin Świątkiewicz regularly concerts in Europe and America. He is a founding member of the international early music ensemble Haagsche Hofmuzieck. He collaborates with, among others, Brecon Baroque, Divino Sospiro, Capella Cracoviensis, Ensemble Diderot, St. Cecilia Baroque Orchestra, the Polish Orchestra of the 18th Century, and Scroll Ensemble. In 2008, he recorded a solo album titled 'Musikalisches Vielerley' with a German baroque keyboard musician, released by Polish Radio Katowice. In 2007, he participated in the recording of the album by the Haagsche Hofmuzieck ensemble titled 'Bach, Handel & Telemann Flute Sonatas'. He also participated in the recordings of the Jasnogórski Collections in the Musica Claromontana series. Marcin Świątkiewicz is a finalist of the 1st International Harpsichord Competition named after Wolkooski in Moscow and the 4th International Competition named after Telemann in Magdeburg (with the Haagsche Hofmuzieck ensemble). Marcin Świątkiewicz is a laureate of scholarship programs from the Minister of Culture (Młoda Polska), the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, and the Dutch Government (HSP Huygens).