Agnieszka Podłucka – viola
Andrzej Karałow – piano

Live performance 21.02.2022 UMFC in Warsaw (Melcer Hall)

Sonata for viola and piano (2021) – Andrzej Karałow

Andrzej Karałow, b. 1991 is a Polish pianist, composer and improviser based in Warsaw (Poland). He is currently an assistant professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Doctor of Musical Arts.
He is a laureate of many national and international piano competitions, e.g. Milosz Magin Competition in Paris, Konzerteum in Athens, or Frederic Chopin National Competition in Warsaw. He performed in prestigious concert halls in the country and abroad, also with accompaniment of renowned orchestras [Warsaw National Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia], under the baton of Ewa Strusińska or Jakub Chrenowicz. Equally successful as a composer, he is a prize winner of, among others, the 2nd Karol Szymanowski International Composition Competition in Katowice, or Opera Compostion Competition in Miskolc, Hungary, where he was praised for his professionalism, imagination and artistic sensibility. Although classical music is the main field of his activity, he is also open to experiments in electronic and alternative genre, combining techniques and inspirations from various fields of art into his own, unique musical language.