Bojanowicz, Magdalena

She graduated with honours from the cello class of Andrzej Bauer and Bartosz Koziak at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw (2013). She is now continuing her studies with Jens Peter Maintz at Berlin’s Universität der Künste (Master Soloist programme). She has perfected her skills at masterclasses in Brussels, Salzburg, Pineswang, and Kronberg with Julius Berger, David Geringas, Jens Peter Maintz, Kazimierz Michalik, Phillippe Muller, Arto Noras, Claus Reichardt, and Victoria Yagling.

She has held scholarships from the National Children’s Fund (2001–08) and the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage (on four occasions). In 2009 she won the prestigious Young Poland scholarship, which resulted in a CD of Polish contemporary music: Satin, recorded in a duo with Maciej Frąckiewicz. As TWOgether Duo, they won the Passport Award of the Polityka weekly and were nominated for a Fryderyk Award. Magdalena Bojanowicz is a Thomastik-Infeld artist since 2015.

She has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras under the baton of conductors such as George Tchitchinadze, Daniel Smith, Bojan Sudic, Renato Rivolta, Marek Moś, Michał Klauza, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Jerzy Kosek, Michał Nesterowicz, Paweł Przytocki, Wojciech Rodek, Benjamin Lack, and Ernst Kovacic.

She won the 1st Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade (2015), 2nd Prize and two special awards at the Witold Lutosławski Cello Competition in Warsaw (2011), 2nd Prize at the Beethoven’s Hradec Competition, 2nd prize at Duo with Piano Competition in Warsaw, and 2nd Prize ay Duo with Piano Competition in Częstochowa; she was also a finalist of the Domnick Cello Prize in Stuttgart. She is a member of Andrzej Bauer’s Warsaw Cellonet group.