Kurzydlak, Julia
Born in 2001 in Chorzów, she started learning the violin at the age of six in her hometown at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Primary and Secondary State Music School, graduating with distinction in 2019. Currently she studies in Tomasz Bugaj’s BMus class of orchestra-and-opera conducting at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music.
As a violinist she has participated in the Opera Tigre festival in Argentina. A passionate promoter of new music, she has recently conducted the premiere of Szymon Komorowski’s Madrigal for Brass, and has taken part in Marin Alsop’s masterclasses organised by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. She has cooperated with artists such as Michał Znaniecki, Rafał Grząka, Ignacy Zalewski, and Rafał Janiak.