A Polish pianist of Bulgarian origins. She graduated with distinction from Zbigniew Sliwiński’s piano class at the State College of Music in Gdańsk (now the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music) in 1973. She completed her postgraduate studies under Alexander Jenner at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She is a laureate of national and international competitions, including the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale ‘Alessandro Casagrande’ in Terni, Italy, in 1975. That same year, she was awarded a distinction at the 9th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. She has been involved in teaching for many years. Having previously taught piano at the Gdańsk Academy of Music, she is currently a professor at the music academies in Poznań and Bydgoszcz. She gives masterclasses at home and abroad (France, Germany, Ireland, Bulgaria, Japan, China, Vietnam and the US, among others). Her students have won top prizes at piano competitions in Poland and abroad, including Rafał Blechacz, winner of the 15th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in October 2005. She has been invited many times to sit on the jury of national and international competitions (in 2015 and 2021 she chaired the jury of the International Chopin Competition). At the same time, she pursues a concert career, performing with orchestra and solo in Poland and abroad, and also with vocalists, violinists and string quartets. She records for CD Accord and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. For her public service work, she was awarded the ‘Duke Mściwoj Medal’ by Gdansk City Council. In 2004 she received the National Education Commission Medal, then in 2005 the ‘Gloria Artis’ silver medal for services to culture and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.