Biography
Karolina Stalmachowska, an oboist, has appeared with Poland’s foremost orchestras, collaborating under leading conductors both domestic and international. She occupies the principal oboe chair with the Polish National Radio Orchestra in Katowice and maintains an active role in chamber settings, where she has recorded several discs.
Born in Kraków, she completed her studies at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice under oboe instructor Tomasz Miczka, earning her diploma with distinction. Competitive successes that advanced her trajectory include a second-place finish at the Seventh National Competition of Wind Instrument Ensembles, held in Warsaw in 2008 within the reed-trio division, and a third prize at the Third International Competition for Oboes and Bassoonists in Łódź, where the top two awards went unassigned. She entered the Polish National Radio Orchestra in Katowice in 2008 and progressed to first-chair status. Between 2008 and 2012 she frequently appeared as soloist with Warsaw’s Sinfonia Varsovia under conductors Jerzy Semkow, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Paul McCreesh, and she has also performed with AUKSO Orkiestra Kameralna, the chamber orchestra of Tychy. Across more than four hundred concerts and roughly a dozen tours—including an appearance at La Folle Journée in Nantes, France, alongside the Zielona Góra Philharmonic—she has worked with the Polish Radio Choir in Katowice and with Sinfonietta Cracovia. In 2019 she received her PhD from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, where she has held a teaching post since 2012.
Chamber activity has likewise defined her profile. She belonged to the LutosAir Quintet between 2019 and 2022 and continues to perform in a wind quintet assembled from principal players of the Polish National Radio Orchestra in Katowice; she has also joined forces with musicians from the Silesian Quartet. As leader of such ensembles she has issued recordings, beginning with the 2021 Dux release Jean Françaix: Musique pour le plaisir and followed in 2023 by a collaboration with the Silesian Quartet on Joachim Mendelson’s Quintet for violin, viola, cello, piano, and oboe.
Born in Kraków, she completed her studies at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice under oboe instructor Tomasz Miczka, earning her diploma with distinction. Competitive successes that advanced her trajectory include a second-place finish at the Seventh National Competition of Wind Instrument Ensembles, held in Warsaw in 2008 within the reed-trio division, and a third prize at the Third International Competition for Oboes and Bassoonists in Łódź, where the top two awards went unassigned. She entered the Polish National Radio Orchestra in Katowice in 2008 and progressed to first-chair status. Between 2008 and 2012 she frequently appeared as soloist with Warsaw’s Sinfonia Varsovia under conductors Jerzy Semkow, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Paul McCreesh, and she has also performed with AUKSO Orkiestra Kameralna, the chamber orchestra of Tychy. Across more than four hundred concerts and roughly a dozen tours—including an appearance at La Folle Journée in Nantes, France, alongside the Zielona Góra Philharmonic—she has worked with the Polish Radio Choir in Katowice and with Sinfonietta Cracovia. In 2019 she received her PhD from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, where she has held a teaching post since 2012.
Chamber activity has likewise defined her profile. She belonged to the LutosAir Quintet between 2019 and 2022 and continues to perform in a wind quintet assembled from principal players of the Polish National Radio Orchestra in Katowice; she has also joined forces with musicians from the Silesian Quartet. As leader of such ensembles she has issued recordings, beginning with the 2021 Dux release Jean Françaix: Musique pour le plaisir and followed in 2023 by a collaboration with the Silesian Quartet on Joachim Mendelson’s Quintet for violin, viola, cello, piano, and oboe.
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