Kaja Danczowska

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Kaja Danczowska (born March 25, 1949 in Krakow ) is a Polish violinist and music teacher.

Danczowska began her violin training at the age of seven with Jan Stasica and continued it the following year (until 1972) with Eugenia Umińska . From 1970 to 1972 she also attended a master class given by David Oistrach at the Moscow Conservatory . She completed another master class in 1976 at the invitation of the Canadian government with Ruggiero Ricci .

Danczowska has been giving concerts since she was nine. Her repertoire ranges from Antonio Vivaldi to Krzysztof Penderecki , and she has performed under the direction of conductors such as Jan Krenz , Jerzy Maksymiuk , Krzysztof Penderecki, Stanisław Skrowaczewski and Antoni Wit . In 1959 she won first prize at the National Violin Competition in Wroclaw, at the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 1967 in Poznan she took fifth place, at the Alberto Curci Violin Competition in 1969 and second place at the Geneva Music Competition in 1970. In 1975 she received third prize at the Radio Munich International Competition and in 1976 the silver medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium .

Since 1978 she has been working as a chamber musician with the pianist Krystian Zimerman . In 1999 she also acted as musical advisor to the festival orchestra with whom he performed Chopin's piano concertos . For Grażyna Bacewicz's 100th birthday , she went on a tour of Poland with Zimerman. Other chamber music partners of Danczowska included Heinz Holliger Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky .

The numerous works she recorded on CD include Mieczysław Karłowicz's Violin Concerto in A major (with the Polish Radio and TV Orchestra under Antoni Wit), Konstanty Regamey's Concerto for Violin and Cello Lila (with Andrzej Bauer and the Sinfonia Varsovia under Wojciech Michniewski ) and Karol Szymanowski's violin concertos (with the National Philharmonic under Kazimierz Kord ); with the latter recording she won a Diapason d'or . In 2015 she was awarded a Fryderyk for album of the year in the solo recital category.

Danczowska has been teaching violin at the Kraków Music Academy since 1972 and has been a professor there since 1997. In addition to numerous state awards (including the State Prize Second Class in 1977, the Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Art in 1982 and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1984), she has received several awards from the City of Krakow (1979, 1991, 1998, 2010) and the Republic's Golden Cross of Merit Poland (1992), the Officer's Cross and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2001 and 2011, respectively) and the Golden Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Merit (2006). The Kraków Music Academy honored her with an honorary doctorate in 2016.

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SURNAME Danczowska, Kaja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow