On May 2, Aleksandra Mikulska will touch people with her music at this year's Piano Days in the Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn.
Aleksandra Mikulska's playing can be characterized as honest and personal. In concert, the charismatic pianist wants to open up foreign worlds and touch people with complete devotion - whether with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt or her compatriot Frédéric Chopin. Growing up in Warsaw, Aleksandra Mikulska developed a great love for Chopin's piano music as a child and was named best Polish pianist at the 2005 Chopin Competition. She went on to study in Mannheim, Karlsruhe (Peter Eicher), Imola (Lazar Berman, Michel Dalberto) and Hanover (Arie Vardi). Aleksandra Mikulska has played with renowned orchestras under the direction of Michael Sanderling, Pawel Przytocki, Kaspar Zehnder, Johannes Schlaefli, Stefan Fraas and Philippe Bach; she has performed in important venues such as the Vienna Musikverein, Brucknerhaus Linz and the Zurich Tonhalle. She is a regular guest at international festivals. As President of the Chopin Society in Darmstadt, Aleksandra Mikulska is passionate about German-Polish cooperation. She is also committed to rediscovering lesser-known composers from her home country such as Julian Fontana, Miłosz Magin, Artur Malawski and Karol Szymanowski. In addition to the solo repertoire, Aleksandra Mikulska devotes herself to chamber music in experimental versions as well as songs from the Polish and German Romantic periods. For her most recent album "Reflections", she combined the sonatas in B minor by Chopin and Liszt. Aleksandra Mikulska is a professor of piano at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden.
