Martyna Pastuszka & Bartlomiej Fras
Biographie Martyna Pastuszka & Bartlomiej Fras
Bartłomiej Fraś
was born in 1997 in Katowice. He’s currently studying at Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice with Szymon Krzeszowiec. He participated many violin compe- titions and recieved many awards. The most important of them are: I prize and special award for the best performance of Paganini composition at „Young Paganini” International Violin Competition in Legnica, II prize at Ogólnopolski Konkurs Skrzypcowy „Talenty 2017”, in Poznań, II prize at „Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition” in London, III prize at Ogólnopolski Cieszyński Konkurs Skrzypcowy in Cieszyn, III prize at eMuse International Music Competi- tion, III prize at Ogólnopolski Festiwal Skrzypcowy in Kielce and IV prize at 40. Ogólnopol- ski Konkurs Bachowski in Zielona Góra. He attended many masterclasses studying with: Benjamin Schmid, Roland Baldini, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Bartosz Bryła, Marcin Bara- nowski, Jakub Jakowicz, Jan Stanienda and Xiaoming Wang.
Martyna Pastuszka
musical entrepreneur, conductor, soloist, chamber musician, founder, and artistic director of {oh!}Orkiestra, with which she regularly performs. She collaborates as concertmaster with Raphael Pichon’s Pygmalion Ensemble and Teodor Currentzis’ Utopia Orchestra. She has performed with esteemed ensembles as concertmaster, soloist, or chamber musician, including Le Concert de la Loge, Concerto Copenhagen, Hofkapelle München, Collegium Vocale Gent, Le Parlement de Musique, and Aukso.
In 2022, as the artistic director-in-residence of the Misteria Paschalia festival in Krakow, she programmed the entire edition and premiered Jacob Schuback’s oratorio Die Jünger zu Emaus. Under her leadership, {oh!}Orchestra also premieres operas such as Hasse’s Arminio, Vinci’s Gismondo, re di Polonia, and Sarri’s Didone abbandonata. In 2022, {oh!}Orkiestra, as the resident of the Bayreuth Baroque festival, staged Vinci’s Alessandro nell’Indie, and in 2023, premiered Antonio Caldara’s opera Venceslao. The {oh!}Orkiestra and {oh!}Trio, under her direction, record for labels such as Aparte, Sony, NIFC, Muso, CPO, Dux, and Erato.
Martyna has been nominated for Opus Klassik awards in the Conductor of the Year category, Paszporty Polityki, Fryderyki, and has been awarded the 2023 Koryfeusz in the Personality of the Year category. In 2021, TVP Kultura produced a documentary directed by Grzegorz Jankowski titled „I am not a maestro,” highlighting the work and relationships of the {oh!}Orkiestra musicians and its leader.
Since 2007, Martyna Pastuszka has been teaching a class in historical violin at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowic.
