is a concert saxophonist and soloist. She made her debut at  the National Philharmonic in Warsaw in 1995 during the Latin  American Culture Festival, performing Heitor Villa-Lobos’s  Fantasia. In 1996, she made her first appearance at the Warsaw  Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, giving  the world premiere of Concerto per Sassofono Soprano e Archi by  Jacek Grudzień, also at the National Philharmonic.

She has released ten albums featuring saxophone concertos and  original recital programmes, and has appeared as a chamber  musician on dozens of recordings. 

Her solo performances are  included on monographic albums devoted to composers such as  Paweł Mykietyn, Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Jacek Grudzień  and Edward Sielicki. As an orchestral musician, she has made  numerous recordings with the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic,  the National Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio  Orchestra, AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, as  well as for many albums of ethno and improvised music. Her solo albums have been nominated three times to the Fry deryk  Awards. She received the Classicamagazine award in France for  the album Sjesta, as well as the Rewelacja Audio Video distinction  for the album Fiesta. Early in her career, the American magazine  Saxophone Journal devoted a feature article to her in a special  issue presenting the world’s leading female saxophonists.

As a soloist, she has performed with leading Polish and international orchestras. She has cooperated with distinguished conductors including Jacek Kaspszyk, Roman Kofman, Hermann  Breuer, Kazimierz Kord, Wojciech Rajski, Michał Dworzyński,  Paweł Kotla and José Maria Florêncio. She has given numerous  world premieres, many of works written especially for her. In  April 2016, she returned to the National Philharmonic to perform  another concerto dedicated to her, by Hanna Kulenty.

She is also actively involved in projects combining improvised  music, jazz and ethno music. In November 2016, she launched  her own project, Alina Mleczko Trance Fusion, at the Polish  Radio’s Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw.

She teaches saxophone at the Fryderyk Chopin Secondary School  of Music in Warsaw and at the Chopin University of Music, Faculty of Instrumental and Pedagogical Education in Białystok,  where she holds the academic rank of doktor habilitowany (habilitation). In 2023, she was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to  Culture – Gloria Artis by the Minister of Culture and National  Heritage.