Emilia Karolina Sitarz — piano
Pianist, improviser, educator. The originator of the educational program NANOSOUNDS for children with disabilities and autism spectrum disorder, winner of the most important Polish cultural awards such as: Koryfeusz, Paszport Polityki, Fryderyk, Złota Płyta, Folkowy Fonogram Roku.
She is a pianist with the Lutosławski Piano Duo and Kwadrofonik ensembles, with flutist Ewa Liebchen, she forms a duo performing contemporary music. She is a graduate of the F. Chopin University and of postgraduate master’s studies at the Hochschule fur Musik in Rostock, completed with distinction in the piano duet class.
She lectures on piano duets and issues related to new music performance. She is also the author of a series of educational concerts for children and young people dealing with issues of contemporary music. In 2020, a series of online programs presenting works for piano duets entitled: ‘Turn on the duet’ was published, of which she is the originator. In 2019-2022, together with the Warsaw Theatre Academy, she was leading the social-cultural project ITAKA working against the exclusion of the elderly from the art culture.
She often collaborates̨ with pop, jazz theatre and folk music personalities.
Since 2011, he has been active in the Kwadrofonik Association, with which he carries out a number of projects in Poland, including the Kwadrofonik Festival, Listenings – concerts to be toured, Pianokrąg, and abroad: Free Concert (LPD), Abroad sound (Kwadrofonik), On the trail of polish sonorism (with E.Liebchen)
She has given concerts in most European countries, North and South America, the Middle East and Japan, performing in halls such as: National Philharmonic, Izumi Hall, Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Auditorio, W. Lutoslawski Studio, Chicago Symphony Center, NOSPR, NFM, Beijing Music Hall, J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
She is currently preparing works by composers Peter Ablinger, Niels Ronsholdt, and György Kurtág. The premiere of her latest solo album is planned for January 2026.