Biography

Polish-born Concert Violinist Anna Orlik is a laureate of international and national competitions:

1st Prize and Special Prize at the 6th International Wolfgang Marschner Violin Competition

in Germany; Violin Winner at the Deena Shypitka 2015 Music Award, UK; Solo Category Award

and Ludwig Spohr Foundation Prize at the International Max Reger Competition

in Sondershausen, Germany; International Festival Allegro Vivo Award, Austria;

and in Poland, Special Prize at the International Karol Szymanowski Competition, Łódź;

and three prizes at the National Stanisław Serwaczyński Violin Competition,

Lublin:3nd Prize, Youngest Finalist Prize and Special Prize for the best interpretation of

Karol Josef Lipiński's work; Laureate of The Institute of Music and Dance Programme- 'New

Interpretations'. As a laureate of Young Artist Program of the Rome Chamber Music Festival 2014, Anna was invited to perform at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Italy.

Anna's performing experience includes solo appearances with Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Lower Silesia Philharmonic

Orchestra, Podkarpacka Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Zielona Góra, Polish Chamber Philharmonic

Orchestra (Sopot), Łomża Chamber Orchestra, Z Brzewski Warsaw String Orchestra, Polish Land Armed Forces Orchestra,

Loh- Orchester Sondershausen, Deutsche Spohr Philharmonie Freiburg, Deutsche Spohr Akademie Freiburg.

Conductors she has cooperated with include: Maxim Vengerov, Marek Pijarowski, Wojciech Rajski, Miroslaw Jacek Blaszczyk, Czeslaw

Grabowski, Jacek Rogala, Hiroaki Masuda, Wolfgang Marschner and Alexander Stessin.

During the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2016, she performed the Sonata for two violins by S. Prokofiew together with Maxim Vengerov. Anna has collaborated in concerts with him and the other renowned artists: Cecilia Bartoli, Gary Hoffman, Baiba Skride, Wolfgang Marschner, also jazz- Avishai Cohen Trio and pop- Germaine Jackson, Noa.

In June 2017, Anna has toured South America (Peru, Argentina, Equador and Chile), as soloist and member of The Menuhin Academy Soloists.

Since her teens Anna has performed recitals and concerts internationally in England, Scotland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, France, Macedonia, Sweden, Denmark,Ukraine, the Netherlands, South America, as well as in her native Poland.

She has played in many venues including - in Poland: the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Palace on

the Island in the Royal Muzeum-Łazienki Królewskie in Warsaw, Polish Music Edition Centre (PWM), Warsaw Music Society (WTM),

Philharmonics in Lublin, Gdańsk, Jelenia Góra, Rzeszów, Zielona Góra, Płock, Ball Hall of the Lancut Castle, Instituto Cervantes in Warsaw, the Warsaw University, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Małachowski Palace in Nałęczów, Villa Atma Museum- Karol Szymanowski's House and Władysław Hasior Gallery in Zakopane;

in Switzerland: Victoria Hall in Geneva, Le Rosey Concert Hall, Yehudi Menuhin Forum Bern, St. Peter Church, Zurich;

in UK: the Royal Academy of Music in London, Polish Social and Cultural Association in London, The Wellingborough Castle;

in Germany: Max Joseph Saal, Munich, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock (Rostock University of Music and Drama),

Thuringian Sondershausen Palace and The Octagonal House (Achteckhaus); in Austria: Lockenhaus Castle, Stift Altenburg;

in the Ukraine: Lviv and Chernivtsi Philharmonics; in Tunisia: Acropolium the Carthage, the Centre of Arabic Music, in Italy: Palazzo Barberini- Salone Pietro da Cortona in Rome;

She has appeared at many international festivals including: Gstaad Menuhin Festival (2016-2018) , Crans Montana Classic and Champéry Music Festival in Switzerland, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany (as a soloist in J. Brahms' Violin Concerto with Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot and Wojciech Rajski ), Ochrid Music Festival in Macedonia, Octobre Musical de

Carthage in Tunisia, Pietrasanta in Concerto in Tuscany, Italy, Rome Chmber Music Festival, Ad Astra in Norway,

Allegro Vivo in Horn,Austria, The Stars Promote in Jelenia Gora Philharmonic, Poland, Wolfgang Marschner Festival in Hinterzarten, Germany, Bach Reger Tage in Bad Lngensalza, Germany, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Berlin, Youth Festival in Kharkov, Ukraine, Summer Festival in Dziekanka -Warsaw, Festival Music Floralia in Botanic Garden of Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw; International Music Festival in Moszna- Poland, the Great Talents cycle of Prof. Regina Smendzianka in Warsaw; Organ Festival in Łódź/ Łagiewniki Poland.

Anna Orlik is a graduate of the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland and has studied with the worldwide acclaimed musician- Maxim Vengerov.

Before she has graduated from the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London with first class honors and the Regency Award, Reckitt Award and Roth Prize. In London she studied violin with Maurice Hasson and Mateja Marinkovic, and viola with James Sleigh. Anna has been supported by the Zetland Foundation, Tillet Trust, Leverhulme Trust.

Anna also studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw with Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, and was awarded the Ministry

of Culture and Young Poland Scholarships.

Anna has received lessons and performed in public masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov, György Pauk, Zakhar Bron, Wolfgang

Marschner, Grigory Zhislin, Mirosław Ławrynowicz, Petru Munteanu, Bartlomiej Nizioł, Marina Jaschwili, Ian Brown, Vladymir Mendelssohn, Robert McDuffie, and Josef Luitz.

Anna has recorded for Acte Prealable, CD Accord, Austrian National Radio Broadcast, Polish National Radio Broadcast No.2 and Polish

Television Kultura, Polish Radio Rzeszów, Tunisian Radio and Television Broadcast, and many others.

Future appearances include concert tours as IMMA soloist to Monte Carlo/Monaco and Katowice/Poland,

Anna plays on a violin made by Januarius Gagliano from 1770, generously made available to her by a private sponsor.

Reviews:

This young violinist captivated the audience with a bravura interpretation of the difficult Violin Concerto in D Major op. 6 written

by Niccolo Paganini, a piece very rarely played even by mature instrumentalists' - Nowiny Jeleniogórskie

In this very difficult piece [ N.Paganini's Violin Concerto No 1 Op.6] she showed great class and artistry in playing.

- Małgorzata Osiej- Gadzina, Kulturalnie

With Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Warsaw's Anna Orlik received an enthusiastic public success.- Badische Zeitung , Germany

It was a great pleasure to listen to Anna Orlik from Poland with her exquisite interpretation of the Concerto for violin and orchestra

by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.- Udo Hildebrand, Schwarzwalder Bote, Germany

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