Trio sTREga - Katarzyna Marczak, clarinet

Katarzyna Marczak graduated from the Instrumental Department of the Academy of Music in Cracow (M.Mus. in Clarinet Performance), and the followig year she received her second M.Mus. from the Department of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory of the aforementioned institution. In 2009 she obtained her DMA degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Ms. Marczak is a founding member and artistic director of the Ara Ensemble, a chamber group specializing in contemporary music. The ensemble has performed at many festivals, music seminars and individual concerts in Poland and abroad. In 2003 the group recorded, and in 2006 released, its first CD, devoted to Canadian composers.

While at UBC, she co-founded the Trio sTREga, consisting of clarinet, cello and piano, in conjunction with her fellow DMA students at UBC. Over the time the group changed its profile and nowadays exists as a clarinet-violin-piano ensemble.
As a soloist Katarzyna Marczak has appeared at festivals and music seminars. In 1992 she performed as a pianist in the finals of the Competition of Contemporary Music in Warsaw. In 2003 she recorded a number of contemporary pieces for clarinet, released in 2005 on CDs accompanying scores published by the Polish Music Edition (PWM). In 2008 she succesfully premiered the famous HARLEKIN by Karlheinz Stockhausen, a 45-minute long stage dance piece for solo clarinet. She presented the piece already on a concert tour in Poland in November 2008, as well as in The Banff Centre for the Arts, during her creative residency in Fall/Winter 2008/2009.

Kasia's full bio

Kasia's website: www.kasiamarczak.com

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