LILIANNA STAWARZ

Lilianna Stawarz

Harpsichordist and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She takes part in numerous courses, ateliers and seminars dedicated to the interpretation of baroque music.
2012-2016 she was a Deputy Dean and a Coordinator in a Concert Bureau in Instrumental and Pedagogical Faculty at University of Music department in Białystok.
She is director of Department of Early Music.
With Warsaw Vocal Department she annually organizes concerts and opera spectacles as an artistic director and a conductor.
She was for 20 years a member of baroque ensemble Il Tempo, specializing in instrumental and vocal-instrumental music from early Baroque to Classicism. She has made many radio recordings with him, 5CDs and participated in numerous concerts and major music festivals in Poland and abroad. in Bruges, Brussels, Utrecht, Moscow, New York, New Brunswick, Rome and Berlin.
While working in the Warsaw Chamber Opera Lilianna Stawarz conducted numerous spectacles, instrumental and vocal concerts, playing on harpsichord and chamber organ.
As the artistic director she recorded six CDs with instrumental and vocal music from XVII century - Opera Omnia by M. Mielczewski and a CD with compositions by a Polish baroque composer D. Stachowicz.

Since 1991 she has been related to the Warsaw Chamber Opera as a harpsichordist and a chamber music player, as well as a conductor.
2015-2017 she was an Artistic Director of Opera and Baroque Department.

In 2003 she recorded her first solo album with C. Ph. E Bach compositions (published by CD Accord) and in a January of 2007 a double album with G. Fr. Handel's Harpsichord Suites HWV 426-433 (published by Pro Musica Camerata Association). In 2012 she recorded her third solo album with Inventions and Symphonies by J. S. Bach, edited by Polish Radio (and nominated to the Fryderyk Award).
She also recorded the Polonaises and Fantasies of W.F. Bach (2014) and W.A. Mozart Concerts KV 107-D, Es ,G and D-major by Haydn, Hob. XVII:11(2014) with the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and a concert for harpsichord by Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz with the Polish Radio Orchestra (2016). Also CD J.S. Bach, 2019. - 6 Sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 - University Press. In 2020 She recorded Scarlatti Sonatas Transcripted for Violin and Charpsichord with Paweł Łosakiewicz – DUX, in 2021 - Johan Sebastian Bach French Suites BWV 812-817 (DUX) - Fryderyk Award 2012
in 2024 - English suites (Chopin University Press)

She received the Fryderyk 2018 award in the Album of the Year category - Early Music for the life album of Antonio Caldara's Oratorium - Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, published by Polskie Radio.
In the same year she also received a nomination for the Cyprian Kamil Norwid for the musical direction of Antonio Vivaldi's Farnace opera.
Lilianna Stawarz is a president of Baroque Art Lovers Society Dramma Per Musica. Since 2014, in cooperation with Museum Łazienki Krolewskie the Association presented a Polish premiere of Agrippina , Orlando by G. Fr. Handel, Farnace by A. Vivaldi and Semiramide riconosciuta by L. Vinci. The spectacles was filmed by Institute of Visual Arts. Agrippina received a nomination to the Koryfeusz Award, as the Event of the Year 2015. Lilianna Stawarz is also the cofounder of the Baroque Opera Festival - www.drammapermusica.pl