Harpsichordist, teacher at the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School Complex in Warsaw (Section of Harpsichord, Organ and Early Music). She graduated with honours from the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw after studies with Leszek Kędracki and Władysław Kłosiewicz. She also studied with John Gibbons at New England Conservatory in Boston. She received numerous scholarships to participate in masterclasses taught by Huguette Dreyfus, Bob van Asperen, Jos van Imerseel, Ketil Haugsand, Jacques Ogg, Menno Van Delft, Robert Hill, and Władysław Kłosiewicz. She has also won scholarships from Acédemie Musicale de Villecroze and the French government. She has made a number of recordings for the Polish Radio, which selected her to represent Poland at the EBU’s New Talent international competition in Bratislava (2005). As a soloist she has performed and recorded with such ensembles as the Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cracow and Łódź philharmonics, and Morphing Chamber Orchestra (with Andreas Scholl) during numerous festivals in Poland as well as Nantes, Bilbao, Tokyo, and Berlin.
Apart from typical harpsichord repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, she also plays contemporary works for that instrument. She premiered Paweł Szymański’s Les Poiriers en Pologne ou une Suite de pièces sentimentales de clavecin faites par Mr Szymanski (2010) and Dissociative Counterpoint Disorder (2014, specially composed for and dedicated to this instrumentalist).
Małgorzata Sarbak gives regular performances on historical keyboard instruments. She has frequently played Mozart on the rare tangent piano (Tangentenflügel) from the German collections of historical instruments in Bad Krozingen and Miltenberg.
She has written music for the stage, including Anna Wakulik’s Your Highness (directed by Katarzyna Kalwat, WARSawy Theatre), Agnieszka Drotkiewicz’s Far from Wuthering Heights (dir. Marcin Liber, Dramatyczny Theatre, Warsaw), Sylwia Chutnik’s Aleksandra. A Play about Piłsudski, and Jarosław Murawski’s For God’s Sake! (Dramatyczny Theatre, Wałbrzych). She has taught at the Summer Courses of Early Music Methodology in Warsaw. In order to reach new audiences, Małgorzata Sarbak also gives concerts in atypical venues, such as Warsaw’s cafés (Chłodna 25, Nowy Wspaniały Świat, Pardon To Tu, Nie Zawsze Musi Być Chaos, Bar Studio), where she performs both solo and in chamber ensembles, not only with period performance experts (notably with pianist Marcin Masecki).
2013 saw the release of her debut (3-CD) album containing J. S. Bach’s Harpsichord Partitas (Clavier-Übung I, BWV 825–830). Produced by the Warsaw-based label Lado ABC with support from the National Audiovisual Institute, it is Poland’s first complete recording of that cycle on a harpsichord.
