Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera
Violin
Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera – A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she graduated with distinction from the class of Prof. Roman Lasocki; she also studied with Pierre Amoyal at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 2023, she obtained a post-doctoral degree and is currently a tutor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.
She creates the Messages Quartet – a band that has won such distinctions as: the Silver Medal and the Special Prize in the 2nd International Chamber Music Competition in Plovdiv, the main prize in the “Musical Eagles” competition, the Young Poland scholarship, and nominations for the Polish Music Coryphaeus awards in the category Personality of the Year and a nomination for Fryderyk. Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera also collaborates with pianists: Sylwia Michalik and Andrzej Karałow, with whom she gives concerts and makes album recordings. For years, she has been performing and promoting Polish music in Poland and abroad, including in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Brazil, and the United States.
She has participated several times in the prestigious International Academy Switzerland, founded and run by the conducting legend Seiji Ozawa. In 2015, she was honored by the maestro with participation in the festival celebrating his 80th birthday – the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan.
She has given concerts as a soloist with both Polish and foreign orchestras, including: the Polish Radio Orchestra “Amadeus”, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Silesian, Subcarpathian, Lower Silesian, Białystok, Zielona Góra, Lublin and Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as the Calgary Symphony, Loh-Orchester Sondershausen, and the Philharmonisches Orchestra des Staatstheater Cottbus.
She is a laureate of national and international competitions, including: 2nd prize at the Atlantic Coast Festival International Soloists Competition in Esposende, Portugal (2016), 4th prize at the 5th Tadeusz Wroński International Competition for solo violin in Warsaw (2015), 1st prize and a special award at the 4th International Tadeusz Wroński Competition Michał Spisak in Dąbrowa Górnicza (2010), 1st place and four special prizes at the 7th National Violin Competition “Young Paganini” in Legnica (2009).
