Maciej Frąckiewicz is the winner of one of the world’s most prestigious accordion competitions – XX Arrasate Hiri International Competition in Spain (2012). In 2013, he won Polityka magazine’s ‘Passport’ award. In 2012, he graduated with honours from the Fryderyk Chopin University in Warsaw in the accordion class of Professor K. Baran and studied under Professor G. Stopa at the 2014 Konzertexamen in HFM in Detmold, Germany. Under the Socrates – Erasmus programme he studied at ESMUC in Barcelona in the class of I. Alberdi. He works closely with composers, among others, Krzysztof Penderecki, for whom he has premiered more than 60 works.

Anna Zawisza graduated from the High School of Music in Tarnów in the class of double-bass and singing, and then with honours at the Department of Vocal and Acting Academy of Music in Krakow. As a soprano, she mainly performs early and contemporary music. She has appeared at many philharmonic halls and opera houses throughout Poland. She has, for many years, performed with the following ensembles: the Gabrielli Consort, Capella Cracoviensis, Silva Rerum, Harmonia Sacra and Estravaganza, ARA Ensemble, Trio Amadrums and the Polish Radio Choir under the distinguished conductors Gabriel Chmura, Antoni Wit, Paul McCreesh, Paul Goodwin, Helmut Rilling.

With the latter she performed Handel’s Messiah as a soloist in the Bach Academy in Krakow in 2003. She received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture in 2004. She has participated in many festivals in Poland, Germany and France. She has made numerous studio recordings including music for the play Łucja Szalona [Crazy Lucy] directed by Magdalena Piekorz, as well as the CD Musicalia Łańcuckie and four albums for the music label Musicon containing recently discovered music from the convent of Jasna Góra in Częstochowa.

The violinist Agata Szymczewska was born in 1985 in Gdańsk. She graduated from the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań under Professor Bartosz Bryła. Since 2004, she has been studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover with Professor Krzysztof Węgrzyn, and is currently conducting postgraduate studies there. In October 2010, she started working as an assistant at the Academy of Music in Poznań. In 2006 she won the first prize, the Gold Medal and the Audience Award at the TVP Kultura XIII International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań, and in 2009 she won the “London Music Masters” award.

In October 2009 she made her debut at the Wigmore Hall, which resulted in an invitation to participate in a concert at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Osmo Vänskä in autumn 2010. After this huge success, The Times of London wrote the following about her: “She plays with seriousness, mastery and musical wisdom beyond her years, sounding at times like a fiery young Ida Haendel”. In 2014 she joined the Szymanowski Quartet – one of the most renowned string quartets in the world. She has performed in famous concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Théatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and also in China, Japan, Korea, Canada and Israel.