Karolina S. Mikołajczyk

Karolina S. Mikołajczyk - a prize winner of violin and chamber music competitions. Doctor of Arts. In 2017, she graduated with honors from the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She also studied at Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz in Cologne in the master class of Zakhar Bron considered "one of the most influential violin teachers in the world” (The Violin Channel).

With her interpretations "resonating with individuality", as a soloist and chamber musician she has performed in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Uruguay, United Arab Emirates, the United States in renowned concert halls such as: Carnegie Hall, Guangzhou Opera House, Den Norske Opera & Ballet in Oslo, the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, The National Grand Theatre and National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw.

In 2022 she was nominated to the prestigious "Fryderyk Award" (Polish equivalent of "Grammy") and made her successful debut in the South America. She has premiered many pieces that had been written and dedicated to her and has been awarded Polish

Society of Authors and Composers Special Prize. She also worked with Krzysztof Penderecki

in 2019 receiving an official approval to perform the violin-accordion arrangement of Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 from the Maestro.

In 2013 she co-founded "Duo Karolina Mikołajczyk & Iwo Jednocki" (violin and classical accordion) - a unique and globally renowned chamber ensemble. Ace of today the Duo has recorded three albums dedicated to contemporary music, which received an outstanding responses from critics. The Duo also shows up an up-to-date approach in promoting its work by presenting video recordings in social media: the one with

Mozart's Violin Sonata gained more than a million views, and was shared by the most popular internet platform devoted to classical music - Classic FM, followed up by Kreisler’s Chinese Tambourine performed on the Great Wall of China as well as Bach's Goldberg Variations and excerpts from film music-inspired The Hollywood Fantasy.

She is also an innovative concert programmer and an advocate for the underrepresented societies, with one of her most recent projects promoting the works of Polish-Jewish composers neglected and forgotten after WWII.

Karolina S. Mikołajczyk plays R. Duke Londini 1766 violin.