Concert in Collegium Maius

• Largo
• Vivace
• Adagio
• Presto

• Vivace
• Largo poco andante
• Allegro

• Allemande
• Courante
• Sarabande
• Gavotte
• Bourrée
• Loure
• Gigue

• Allegro moderatamente
• Scozzese - Un poco andante et affettuoso
• Largo
• Un poco andante et affettuoso

• Allegro
• Adagio
• Presto

Tomasz Potaczek (flute)

Tomasz Paweł Potaczek in the year 2009 graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Kraków. He studied traverso flute taught by Małgorzata Wojciechowska and later by Peter Holtslag. From the very beginning of his studies he participated in numerous early music courses conducted by, among others, Rachel Brown, Lucie Duškova, Peter Holtslag, Jana Semerádova, Jed Wentz and Małgorzata Wojciechowska. He is a member of the Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Ludwik Stefański Music Society. As traverso flutist, he is a co-founder of the early music ensemble, Estravaganza. Moreover, he cooperates with a court ensemble Consortium Sedinum, Capella Cracoviensis, Kraków Philharmonic, as well as early music ensembles such as Ensamble Barocum, Risonanza, Intrada and Cracovia Danza Court Ballet. In 2003, Tomasz Potaczek completed studies in psychology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is a member of the Polish Psychologist's Association and the Polish Association for Psychodynamic Therapy, and since 2004 he has been working as a psychologist and psychotherapist, developing at the same time his musical abilities and giving concerts. In the years 2005 - 2014, Tomasz Paweł Potaczek participated in many stage performances as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral flutist in the country as well as abroad (the Netherlands, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine and Slovenia).

Anna Śliwa (viola)

Anna Śliwa is violinist of versatile interests, passionate about musical education of youngest children. She graduated from the Department of Instrumental Studies at the Academy of Music in Kraków at the faculty of modern violin and baroque violin. Anna specializes in solo and chamber repertoire of pieces of early music as well as in improvised performance of pieces of Pre-Renaissance and ethnic music relics. Together with the Camerata Cracovia ensemble, she was the first Polish to perform newly discovered works of a 17th-century Polish-German composer, Henryk Doebelius. In the repertoire of early music, she uses viola and baroque violin, lyre da braccio, viola d'amore, fiddle and pochette. Anna cooperates with most Polish early music ensembles, including Ars Cantus, Concerto Polacco, Il Tempo, as well as an Austrian ensemble, Pandolfis Consort Wien. Since 2007, she has been leading Intrada historical instruments ensemble, cooperating closely with Cracovia Danza Court Ballet, performing mainly music associated with dance and other forms of stage performances. Anna worked as a violinist in the Capella Cracoviensis ensemble, and as a violist in the Antique Collegium Musicae Varsoviense Early Instruments Ensemble at Warsaw Chamber Opera. She has participated in numerous recordings as well as in prestigious festivals such as Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Arte Sintesi Enschede, Wratislavia Cantans, Festiwal van Vlaanderen Brugge, Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music; she performed at Expo 2003 and during the Polish Year in Paris. A separate area of her activity is violin pedagogy. She teaches violin at the Mieczysław Karłowicz Complex of State Music Schools in Kraków; moreover, Anna teaches baroque violin and viola d'amore at the Witold Lutosławski Kraków Conservatoire.

Andrzej Zawisza (harpsichord)

Andrzej Zawisza graduated with honours from the harpsichord class of Prof. Magdalena Myczka at the Academy of Music in Krakow. Later, he moved on to also complete postgraduate harpsichord studies in the class of Prof. Elżbieta Stefańska. In 2003-2005 he studied harpsichord with James Johnstone and singing with Andrew Watts at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, which he graduated with the Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance (PgDip) and Master of Music Degree (MMus) with honours. He also honed his vocal skills under Mhairi Lawson and Dame Emmy Kirkby. As a vocalist, the artist has collaborated with many choirs, chamber ensembles, as well as orchestras and vocal ensembles specialising in performance of early music, often performing solo parts. As a harpsichordist (both as a soloist and a chamber musician), he collaborated with many chamber ensembles, including Florilegium, Sonnerie, La Serenissima, La Tempesta, Capella Cracoviensis. Moreover, as a renowned basso continuo he has been also collaborating with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles in Poland and abroad, such as Camerata Vivaldi, Krakow Opera Orchestra, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra and Tarnow Chamber Orchestra with whom he recorded pieces by Vivaldi, Albinioni and Haendel. Andrzej Zawisza is a finalist of the Polish edition of the Orpheus International Vocal Competition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the premiere of Claudio Monteverdi’s Orpheus (Italy, Mantua 2007) and a laureate of the first prize at the VIII Broadwood Harpsichord Competition in London (2005). He is also a laureate of the Creative Scholarship and the City of Krakow Award (2001), as well as the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in music (2002). Moreover, he is also a member of the Polish Early Music Society and the Bach Society in Krakow, vice-president of the Sonoris Foundation for Art Development, as well as a founder and artistic director of the Estravaganza ensemble, with whom he realised a multimedia recording of J.S. Bach’s cantatas for a Japanese label - IMC Music Publisher Ltd. In 2016 he received a doctorate in music arts as an instrumentalist.