Date of Birth: 15.06.1987
Instrument: Anonymous, Germany 1920

Graduated with honours from the Maastricht Academy of Music in the Netherlands where she studied with Professor Boris Belkin and from the Henryk Wieniawski Secondary Music School in Poznań where she worked with Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska. Professor Kaliszewska and Doctor Jakub Haufa are currently her teachers at the Academy of Music in Poznań. Sandra has won prizes in many competitions such as the Eugenia Umińska Violin Competition (Poznań, 2010), Zdzisław Jahnke Competition (Poznań, 2009) and the Stanisław Hajzer Bach Competition (Zielona Góra, 2003). She has performed with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra and played in a violin-guitar duo. She has been granted scholarships by the Polish Prime Minister and the Huygens Scholarship Programme.

[2011]

Program:

Stage 1:

J. S. Bach: Chaconne from Partita BWV 1004
N. Paganini: Capriccio No. 5 Op.1
H. Wieniawski: Capriccio No. 5 Op.10
N. Milstein: Paganiniana

Stage 2:

M. Ravel: Sonata
H. Wieniawski: Fantasy on Themes from Ch. Gounod’s Opera “Faust” Op. 20
K. Szymanowski: Narcissus of Mythes cycle Op. 30

Stage 3:

W.A. Mozart: Violin Concerto in A Major KV 219 (first movement)
W. A. Mozart: first movement of Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major KV 364/320d

Stage 4:

H. Wieniawski: Second Violin Concerto in D Minor Op. 22
D. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor Op. 77