Katarzyna Bryla
Katarzyna Bryla is a brilliant young violinist, born in 1982 in Poznan, Poland. After graduating with a bachelor and masters degrees from the Academy of Music in Poznan, where she studied under Professor Bartosz Bryla and Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska, she entered the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD, on a full scholarship, where she now studies with Maestro Herbert Greenberg.
Katarzyna Bryla has won an impressive number of national and international violin competitions. Among them first prizes in the National Children's Art Competition in Warsaw at the very young age of eight, National Violin Competition in Gdansk; National J. S. Bach competition in Zielona Gora where she was also awarded a special prize for the best performance of Bach, and the International Contemporary Music Competition in Warsaw. Other top prizes include National Violin Competition in Wroclaw; National Violin Competition in Olszlyn, National J. S. Bach Competition in Zielona Gora, International Krzysztof Penderecki Competition in Cracow and the National Violin Competition in Elblag.
Katarzyna Bryla has performed at the Aspen Music Festival, the Sun Festival in Singapore, and at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. In addition to her solo career, Ms. Bryla is also an active chamber music player. She has received top prizes in many chamber music competitions for her trio and quartet playing, such as the National Chamber Music Competition in Wroclaw in both 1997 and 1999 and top prize at the National Chamber Music Competition in Lodz. With guitar she received the Grand Prix in the International Chamber Music Competition Chitaralia in Przemysl, with duo partner Lukasz Kuropaczewski. Despite her young age, Katarzyna Bryla has already performed with many major Polish orchestras and appeared in music centers in Poland, Germany, France, Spain, England, Gran Canaria and the United States.