Ślubowska

Violinist, soloists, chamber player, but most importantly – musician. Graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the class of Szymon Krzeszowiec, in which she has been working as an assistant professor since 2020. She has trained her skills under the guidance of outstanding artists, such as Pierre Amoyal, Gidon Kremer, Pinchas […]

Violinist, soloists, chamber player, but most importantly – musician.

Graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the class of Szymon Krzeszowiec, in which she has been working as an assistant professor since 2020. She has trained her skills under the guidance of outstanding artists, such as Pierre Amoyal, Gidon Kremer, Pinchas Zukerman, Bomsori Kim, Bartłomiej Nizioł and Maria Szwajger-Kułakowska.

Moreover, she has been appreciated many times at national and international competitions, winning first place at International „Young Paganini” Violin Competition in Legnica, first place at National Stanisław Serwaczynski Competition of Young Violinists in Lublin, being finalist of the Karol Szymanowski Music Competition in Katowice and participant of the 16. International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition.

As a soloist she has performed with several significant orchestras such as Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra NOSPR in Katowice, AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, Staatstheater Symphony Orchestra in Cottbus, Silesian Opera Orchestra and The Silesian, Lower Silesian, Subcarpathian, Sudeten, Poznań and Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic.

Constantly looking for opportunities to grow as an artist, she successfully cuts across the worlds of contemporary music and historical performance, the fruit of which is being the first violinist of the Equilibrium String Quartet, member of the Metropolis Piano Quartet and Oh Orkiestra.         

In 2022 she released two new albums – solo debut „SULAMITA” released by DUX Recording Producers, very enthusiastically received by the music critic and audience and the recording of Władysław Żeleński’s chamber music with Equilibrium String Quartet, registered on period instruments (released by All’Improvviso).

Smirnov

Dmitry Smirnov was invited as a soloist by the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra Saint-Petersburg, the Moscow Philharmonic State and the Chamber Orchestra of Moscow, the Lucerne Festival Strings, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Argovia Philharmonic. He was among the “Jeunes Etoiles” at Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2019. His next projects include the performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto […]

Dmitry Smirnov was invited as a soloist by the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra Saint-Petersburg, the Moscow Philharmonic State and the Chamber Orchestra of Moscow, the Lucerne Festival Strings, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Argovia Philharmonic. He was among the “Jeunes Etoiles” at Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2019.

His next projects include the performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto on historical instruments with Theresia Orchestra conducted by Giovanni Antonini, chamber music performances with Sol Gabetta at SOLsberg Festival, the Debut recital with pianist Marco Scilironi in LAC for LuganoMusica and a Debut solo recital at Lucerne Festival. In 2021 he released his first CD with works by Bach and Bartok for the label FHR London. He worked with Heinz Holliger for “Swiss Chamber Concerts”, with Giovanni Antonini for “Haydn 2032 Project”, with the Kelemen Quartet and the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro. In 2018 he founded the chamber ensemble “Camerata Rhein” in Basel for experimental and film music performances.

Born in 1994 in St. Petersburg, Dmitry studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory (Elena Zaiceva), at the Lausanne Institute of Advanced Musical Studies (Pavel Vernikov) and at the Basel Music Academy (Rainer Schmidt). Dmitry won prizes and awards of international music competitions such as the ARD International Music Competition and the Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists.

He plays a violin (2018) made by Philipp Bonhoeffer and viola (2019) from the same luthier.