Professor, Doctor of Musical Arts, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and teacher. She is a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Cracow and director of the international Cross-Culture Festival. 30 years ago together with Ewa Dahlig and Andrzej Kuczkowski, she reconstructed ancient Polish string instruments: the Biłgoraj suka, Płock fiddle, and Mielec suka. She has released 27 original albums, many of which have received Polish and international awards. For 30 years she has given concerts as a soloist in the leading concert halls all over the world. She has authored songs and performed with world-famous artists, including Yo Yo Ma, Janusz Olejniczak, Gil Goldstein, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Branford Marsalis, Kayhan Kalhor, and Hoosein Alizadeh. From 1997 to 2002, as wife of the Polish ambassador to Japan, she befriended the entire Imperial family. She gave concerts and composed music for Empress Michiko. In 2010, she opened the first academic specialisation related to ethnic music in Poland: Lap Fidels at the Instrumental Faculty of the Academy of Music in Cracow, which later became the Chair of Ethnic Music. Since 2011, she has been creating unique programmes with Arab, Pakistani, Senegalese, Iranian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian musicians in Asia and Africa, based on folk music from Mazovia. She established a collaboration with the Normal University in Quanzhou, where she carried out projects with Chinese students. In 2014, together with Ewa Dahlig, she published Lap Fidels. (Re) construction. In 2020, she published the first ever textbook for playing reconstructed ancient Polish string instruments. She composes music for plays and films. 

She has received numerous honours and awards, including the Gloria Artis Bronze Medal of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2010), Award of the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship (2011), Silver Cross of Merit from the President of the Republic of Poland (2011), Award of the Marshal of the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2016), Top of the World (UK Songlines, 2016), Norwid Award in Music (2018), Gloria Artis Silver Medal of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2019), Witold Hulewicz Award (2019). In 2023, she was the winner of the Public Media Award in the Music category.