Feliks Nowowiejski General Primary and Secondary Music School in Gdańsk
Katarzyna Goliat violin
Katarzyna Goliat commenced to learn the violin at the age of six in the Henryk Wieniawski Primary State Music School in Gdańsk-Orunia as a student of mgr Krystyna Przybylińska-Żgaj. She is currently enrolled in the State General Primary and Secondary School in Gdańsk in the class of Professor Krystyna Jurecka.
She attended courses led by M. Vengerov, S. Stadler, S. Kujiken and music workshops in Bałoszyce and in Łańcut.
Her greatest achievements include 1st prize at the 1st Warmińsko-Mazurski Youth String Instrument Competition (Elbląg, 2009), 3rd place in the 52nd International J. Kocian Violin Competition (Usti nad Orlici – Czech Republic, 2010), 1st prize at the 6th International Violin Competition in the Castle of Zell an der Pram (Austria, 2010), 1st prize, Grand Prize and Art AIR Center prize at the 15th International Bohdan Warchal String Instrument Competition (Dolný Kubin – Slovakia, 2011), 3rd prize at the National CEA Auditions (2012), 2nd place at the Bravo competition in Namur (Belgium, 2013) and 3rd prize at the CEA National Chamber Ensemble Auditions (2013).
She has performed in Poland, and also in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium and Russia with such orchestras as the Polish Chamber Philharmonic in Sopot, the Zhilina State Chamber Orchestra, the Bohdan Warchal Chamber Orchestra and with the Chamber Orchestra of the Music Academy in Gdańsk.
Katarzyna Goliat was qualified by Canadians as one of six violinists in Poland to take part in the 17th edition of the Morningside Music Bridge master course in Calgary (2013).
Miłosz Kamiński-Kaczmar trumpet
Miłosz Kamiński-Kaczmar is a student of the Feliks Nowowiejski General Music School in Gdańsk in the trumpet class of Professor Szymon Pawłowski.
A very promising trumpet player. Noticed numerous times at national and international competitions.
Miłosz Kamiński-Kaczmar took part in master classes led by renowned teachers, such as Gábor Boldoczki, Igor Cecocho, Benedykt Matusik and others.
He plays in many concerts, as soloist and in chamber ensembles.
Orchestra of the Feliks Nowowiejski General Secondary Music School in Gdańsk
The Symphony Orchestra at the Feliks Nowowiejski General Secondary Music School in Gdańsk was established more than one half of a century ago.
The ensemble has played under the direction of many conductors, including Zygmunt Rychert, Waldemar Górski and Monika Stefaniak. For more than 30 years, the orchestra was led by Professor Elżbieta Wiesztordt, achieving success many times in Poland and abroad.
Since 2010, the orchestra has been directed by Sylwia Anna Janiak. Currently the ensemble consists of 70 musicians. The orchestra performs at many regular concert cycles, including the Christmas Concert at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Graduate Concerts at the Academy of Music, the “Ku przyszłości” [Towards the Future] Contemporary Music Concert cycle held as part of the Gdańsk Science Festival and concert cycles at the Academy of Music devoted to individual composers.
Every year, the ensemble also plays at the Eurounionorchestries International Young Musicians’ Festival in Świeradów Zdrój.
Individual members of the orchestra are successful participants in domestic and international competitions and auditions, master classes and music festivals.
The Orchestra’s extensive repertoire encompasses works by composers from the baroque to contemporary periods.
The orchestra’s concert programmes feature mainly classical music (symphonic and chamber), as well as music from films and musicals.
Sylwia Anna Janiak dyrygent
Sylwia Anna Janiak graduated from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk in two faculties: conducting, composition and music theory, specialising in symphonic and opera conducting (honours diploma in 2012), in the class of Professor Elżbieta Wiesztordt and instrumental, specialising in violin in the class of Professor Krystyna Jurecka.
At the graduation concert, which took place in April 2012, Janiak conducted the Orchestra of the Sinfonia Baltica Polish Philharmonic in Słupsk.
She has also completed a post-graduate program at the Faculty of Humanist Sciences of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, specialising in culture management.
Since October 2012, Janiak is a teacher at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, teaching students conducting and score reading at the Faculty of Conducting, Composition and Music Theory. In January 2013 the Council of the Faculty of Conducting, Jazz and Music Education in the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz undertook the decision to initiate Janiak’s doctoral thesis on “Stylistic, esthetic and technical measures in Mieczysław Weinberg’s Requiem”.
In November of 2012 she was one of seven Poles representing our country at the 9th International Grzegorz Fitelberg Conductors’ Competition in Katowice, at which she received three prizes: The Zofia and Antoni Wit prize for best Polish semi-finalist, the Tisha and Piotr Gajewski prize for the youngest participant in the competition and invitations to conduct concerts.
In April 2013 she received the Pomeranian Artistic Award in the “Artistic Hope” category.
In November of 2012 she was honoured with the City of Gdańsk Prize for Young Artists in Culture.
Since 2010 she is the conductor of the Orchestra of the Feliks Nowowiejski General Secondary Music School in Gdańsk, with which she performs regularly at concert cycles, including the Christmas Concert at the Gdańsk University of Technology, the Secondary Music School graduates’ concert at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and the “Ku przyszłości” [Towards the Future] Contemporary Music Concert cycle held as part of the Gdańsk Science Festival.
In October 2012, for the recogntion of her achievements, she received a 2nd class award from the Director of the Centre for Artistic Education and a letter of congratulations for excellent teaching results and for the success of the Orchestra of the Feliks Nowowiejski General Secondary Music School in Gdańsk at the La Folle Journée Festival on 28-30 September 2012 in the Grand Theatre-National Opera in Warsaw.
She is the president of the Sinfonia Artistica Juvenilia Foundation for the Support of Young Artists. Its priority project was the formation of a symphony orchestra. Janiak achieved this goal, establishing in November 2011 the Baltic Philharmonic of the Young symphony orchestra, with which she performed as conductor and artistic director in the Polish Baltic Philharmonic (“Gdańsk Resident of the Year 2012”) in the Baltic Centre of Culture (the “Metropolis is OK” festival), at the Philharmonic Hall in Kaliningrad and at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.
