Karolina Jaroszewska-Rajewska
One of Karolina Jaroszewska-Rajewska’s most important artistic engagements in recent years was her recital at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, preceded by a recital at the Warsaw Philharmonic. The New York concert was warmly received by both the audience and critics: “Ms. Jaroszewska is an intuitive musician, with a big boned, extroverted and plush sound at her disposal.[...] Her security in technical matters was abundantly evident [...] she displayed a subtle calibration of dynamics and several different qualities of pizzicato to great musical effect”. (David La Marche for the New York Concert Review).
The artist has been performing in both Poland and abroad with such orchestras as the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Savannah Symphony Orchestra, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra where she is also head of the cello section, as well as with world-renowned musicians, including Agnieszka Duczmal, Anna Duczmal-Mróz, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Gary Karr, Jakub Jakowicz, Georgijs Osokins, Klaudiusz Baran, Julia Samojło, Amy Mills and Maciej Tomasiewicz.
Karolina Jaroszewska-Rajewska appeared at the Europalia Festival in Belgium, the 60th Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój and the Krzysztof Penderecki Festival marking the composer’s 80th birthday. She learned her craft under one of the most outstanding cellists of our times – Zara Nelsova – whom she met as a teenager during the Aspen Music Festival and School. At the invitation of Zara Nelsova, she went to New York where she initially had private classes with the cellist free of charge and subsequently enrolled in the Juilliard School in New York which she graduated with Bachelor and Master of Music diplomas. During her studies, she won admission to the prestigious Gregor Piatigorsky master class in Los Angeles. She also studied with Friedrich-Jürgen Sellheim, Igor Czilipik, Stanisław Firlej and Mischa Maisky.
The artist makes CD recordings and for the Polish Radio and TVP. She received a scholarship from the City of Poznań, the Young Positivist Medal of the Hipolit Cegielski Society and the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
[2024]