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pianist and teacher; b. 4th October 1939 in Warsaw. She began learning piano at the age of seven. In 1952-57 she attended the State Secondary School of Music in Warsaw, where her teacher was Wanda Łosakiewicz. Then she studied piano with Zbigniew Drzewiecki at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, graduating with honours in 1963.

She won the 6th prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich (1961), the Silver Medal at the International Piano Competition of Rio de Janeiro (1962), and the 3rd prize as well as the prize for the best performance of a polonaise and the Anna Godlewska prize for the best Polish participant at the 7th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1965). 

She began her concert career while still a student, performing in Poland (with such conductors as Witold Rowicki, Stanisław Wisłocki, Marek Pijarowski, Tadeusz Strugała, Krzysztof Missona, Andrzej Cwojdziński, Wojciech Michniewski) and most of Europe, as well as touring Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Israel and the USA. She has taken part in dozens of music festivals in Poland and abroad, including the International Chopin Competition in Duszniki Zdrój and Festival of Polish Pianists in Słupsk. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with violinists Kaja Danczowska and Krzysztof Jakowicz. She has made recordings for radio and television in Poland and Germany, including for Polish Radio, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Polish Television. Polskie Nagrania ‘Muza' has released her interpretations of works by Fryderyk Chopin.

From 1985-2002, she taught piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. She has also led piano masterclasses in Buenos Aires and Darmstadt. She has sat on the jury of many piano competitions around the world (including in Darmstadt, Tbilisi and Xiamen), and also the International Competition for Young Pianists "Artur Rubinstein in memoriam", the preliminary round of the 16th and 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2010, 2015) and the jury of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2021).