Harpist Katarzyna Miernik CONTACT: EMAIL & WEBSITE

Kasia Miernik was born in 1984 in Warsaw, Poland. She started with private piano lessons at the age of 8. When she was 12, she began her musiical education in a primary music school as a harp student with Professor Urszula Mazurek, the dean of Harp Department in the Music Academy of Warsaw, and her assistant Professor Alina Bzhezhinska, and later with Professor Michalina Polubinska.

When she was 15, she continued her harp lessons in secondary music school with Professor Katarzyna Wasiolka-Staniewicz. Her diploma concert was awarded with the highest mark and was followed by her solo recital in a famous concert hall in Warsaw. At the age of 19, she moved to the Netherlands to study in the Conservatory of Maastricht with Professor Masumi Nagasawa.

Kasia has an extensive and diverse repertoire including compositions ranging from the Baroque period to modern music. She performed solo and played chamber music concerts many times in Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium. She had played with orchestras conducted by Ruben Silva, Georg Fritzsch, Edmond Saveniers, Henk Guittart, Philippe Ferro and others. She attended numerous master classes of world-famous harpists, amoung them Isabelle Moretti, Alice Giles and Susan McDonald.

She has won numerous awards at competitions for young artists in Poland and abroad including Competition for the Performers of Witold Lutoslawski's Compositions 2002 (Poland), and Inter Province Music Competition 2005 (the Netherlands). In 2006 she performed as soloist with orchestra during the Festival "1906 D.Shostakovich/E.Lutyens" (the Netherlands).