BIO EN

Celloice is a team co-produced by two talented performers:
Hanna Błachuta - soprano and Kinga Chudzikowska - cello.

This dou allows for the unique sound and atmosphere of a 19th-century art salon.


Celloice has a wide repertoire consisting of well-known and popular classical music, mostly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as ancient and modern composers.

 HANNA BŁACHUTA (soprano) graduated from The Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw.

She has been developing her skills at singing master classes with professors and coaches: Hans Pieter Herman (Netherlands), Ira Siff (Netherlands), Lucy Arner (USA), Liora Maurer (USA), Sharon Mohar (France), Irena Laurusiene (Lithuania), Andreas Baumann (Austria), Stefan Bevier (Germany), Anna Chierichetti (Italy), Irena Sylya (Panama), Gabriela Benackova (Czech Republic), Teresa Żylis-Gara (Poland), Stefania Kałużanka (Poland), Urszula Kryger (Poland), Halina Łazarska (Poland), Aleksandra Żminkowska (Poland).

She participated in the: XXXIII International Vocal Competition at the Staatsoper in Hamburg (Germany), XIX International Competition in Orvieto (Italy), II International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna (Austria), International Vocal Competition in Zdar (Czech Republic), Viotti Competition in Vercelli (Italy), Imrich Godin International Vocal Competition Iuventus Canti in Vrable (Slovakia). She won the Special Award at the International Vocal Competition in Berlin.

She has performed on stage the roles of Sussanna and Contessa (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Le Nozze di Figaro"), Mimi (Giacomo Puccini "La Boheme"), Pamina (Mozart "Die Zauberflöte"), Amore (Claudio Monteverdi "L'incoronazione di Poppea"), Stefan (Stanislaw Duniecki "Paziowie Królowej Marysieńki"). She has appeared as a soloist with The Johann Strauss Wrocław Festival Orchestra during the XIXth International Festival of Vienna Music with repertoire from "Die Fledermaus" and "Die lustige Witwe" and also with The Zagreb Soloist during the Zagreb Summer Festival "Gric Evenings".During her high school she performed the soprano solo part from "Stabat Mater" by Joseph Haydn with Symphony Orchestra and Choir. She has also participated in numerous performances and concerts organized by the Academy of Music in Wrocław.

From 2011 she is an artist of CulturNET - European Youth Culture Net.

Together with Kinga Chudzikowska- cello she creates Celloise (duo) which has participated in many concerts in Poland, Italy and Germany and festivals such as: Festival Music of Eras, Young Euro Classic, Festival dei Punti Cardinali.

Among the masters of the baton with whom she had an opportunity to collaborate are: Lucy Arner, Stefan Bevier, Jacek Kasprzyk, Mieczysław Gawroński, Jan Ślęk, Alan Urbanek, Artur Wróbel, Tadeusz Zathey, Adam Klocek.

She has taken part in many music festivals, among others: Zagreb Summer Festival, Wratislavia Cantans, The XXI May Festival of Early Music, XIX International Festival of Vienna Music, Young Euro Classic, Festival Music of Eras, Oratorio Music Festival.

 

Kinga Chudzikowska (cello) graduate of the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, cello class of Professor Stanisław Firlej (2010) and one year scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover under Professor Tilmann Wick (2007-2008).

She has been developing her skills at cello master classes with professors: Angelica May (Austria), Kirill Rodin (Russia), Ulf Tischbirk (Germany), Klaus Storck (Germany), Markus Nikosch (Germany), Jeremy Findlay (Canada). She participated in conductors master classes- “Singing Wroclaw” under Professor Jolanta Szybalska- Matczak in Duszniki Zdroj and Klodzko (2003, 2004, 2005, Poland) and in chamber music master classes under professors Anna Prabucka-Firlej and Krystyna Borucińska – Żarnecka (2009, 2010, Wroclaw, Poland).

She is a laureate of Poland competitions: The Stanislaw Hajzer Bach Competition in Zielona Gora in 2004 (third prize); Jan Sebastian Bach Cello Competition in Czestochowa in 2001 (first prize); Regional Cello Auditions in Chrzanow in 1999 (third prize); Fourth Polish Young Cellist Competition in Wroclaw in 1997 (special award).

Among the masters of the baton with whom she had an opportunity to collaborate are: Rene Gulikers (Netherlands), ENO KOCO Leeds (Great Britain), Eij Oue (Japan), Stefan Bevier (Germany), Dan Ettinger (Germany), Grigor Palikarov (Bulgaria), Jerzy Maksymiuk, Stanisław Rybarczyk, Piotr Rubik, Jacek Sykulski, Włodzimierz Szomański, Mieczysław Gawroński, Marek Toporowski, Jan Ślęk, Robert Kurdybacha, Jan Jakub Bokun, Adam Klocek, Jerzy Salwarowski, Bartosz Żurakowski, Wojciech Rodek (all- Poland) and others.

She is a concertmaster of: Wroclaw Soloists Ensemble "Ricordanza" directed by an outstanding violinist Wiktor Kuzniecow; "Barock Orchester Berlin", "Festival Orchestra Berlin", "European Bach Players" conducted by Stefan Bevier, which are performing in (among other): Berliner Philharmonie, Berliner Dom, Französischer Dom (Berlin). As a member of "Ricordanza" she has made numerous archive recordings with music of Vivaldi, Albinoni, Paganini, Piazzolla, Zeidler- Musica Sacromontana which won the "Fryderyk award" in 2008.

From 2015 she is a soloist in Częstochowa Philharmonic.

From 2011 she is an artist of CulturNET - European Youth Culture Net.

Together with Hanna Błachuta- soprano she creates Celloice (dou) which has participated in many concert in Poland, Italy and Germany and festivals such as: Festival Music of Eras, Young Euro Classic.

In 2003-2007 she was a concertmaster of Junge Deutsch – Polnische Philharmonie which has performed in Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig, Osnabrück, Dresden, Görlitz, Wroclaw, Legnica, Jelenia Góra, Świdnica. In 2005 they recorded album "Musik kennt keine Grenzen" with music of Bernstein, Natanson, Moszkowski and Verdi for DUX Recording Producers.

In 2007 as a member of a string quartet she recorded album "Santo Subito" with polish composer and conductor Włodzimierz Szomański, with his own works.

She performed in festivals such as: International Festival of Vienna Music, Wratislavia Cantans, Oratorio Music Festival, Musica Polonica Nova, Young Classic Wratislavia, Europäische Musiksommer, Polonia Cantans, Festival Musica Sacromontana, Festival Music of Eras, Visegrad Festival, Young Euro Classic.

She has collaborated with: Chamber Orchestra "Pro Arte", Music Theater "Capitol", TECH-NO Orchestra, "Das Bachara Trio", Kalisz Philharmonic, Opole Philharmonic, Sudeck Philharmonic.

The artist plays the instrument by unknown french luthier from XIXth century.