Agnieszka Podłucka
A graduate of the Chopin University of Music in the violin class of Jan Stanienda and in the viola class of Piotr Reichert and Katarzyna Budnik. Between 2019 and 2021, she served as deputy leader of the viola section in the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. Since 2021, she has been working at the Warsaw Philharmonic as a violist and is also an assistant in the viola and chamber music class at her alma mater. In the years 2020–2021, she studied historical violin under Martyna Pastuszka at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Tansman Trio, with whom she recorded the album Tansman Trio plays Tansman (DUX), which was awarded the Diapason d'Or in 2024.
She is a laureate of the Primuz International Strings Competition in Łódź (2021, 1st place), the International Bach Solo Competition in Poznań (2021, 1st place), the Michał Spisak International Music Competition in Dąbrowa Górnicza (2017, 1st place), and the Intercollegiate Viola Competition in Gdańsk and Krakow (2017, 2018, 1st place). She has given concerts in Germany (including at the Philharmonie Berlin), the Netherlands, Austria, the United States, Japan and South Korea. She has participated in orchestral projects, including the fifth edition of the Sinfonia Varsovia Academy (2016–2017), the Baltic Sea Philharmonic (2019–2020), the European Union Youth Orchestra (2018) and the Santander Orchestra (2016–2017). In 2018, she received a scholarship as part of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage's ‘Young Poland’ programme.
In 2025, the artist's first solo album, cascadas (Chopin University Press), was released. The recording, which is the result of Agnieszka Podłucka's collaboration with pianist and composer Andrzej Karałow, features premiere recordings of sonatas for viola and piano by Paweł Szymański, Andrzej Karałow and André Tchaikowsky.
[2026]