Accomplished Polish-Canadian pianist Katarzyna Musial has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe. Her playing was described as"a pure delight... wonderfully evocative... vividly detailed... interpretation that plumbed emotional depths with harmonic coloring..." (New York Concert Review)

In addition to the First Prize at 2011 Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition (New York) Ms. Musial was a prize winner in the following competitions: the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music (Cracow), the Kay Meek Competition (Vancouver) and has received the Alban Berg Prize for outstanding merit (Vienna), as well as the Philip Cohen Award for outstanding performance musicianship (Montreal).

Recent highlights include a debut at Carnegie Hall, performances at 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and at the Tempietto Festival Musicale della Nazioni (Rome) as well as concerto performances with the Toronto Sinfonietta, L'Orchestre Symphonique de L'Isle, the McGill Chamber Orchestra and the Bielsko Chamber Orchestra at the opening of the International Bach Festival (Poland). Her new CD with XXI-21 label will be launched at the beginning of 2012.

Ms. Musial enchants audiences with her repertoire that showcases many different styles which span from baroque to modern. Also interested in the music of today, she has performed works by avant garde composer Jay Sydeman and gave the world premiere of a 35-minute piano suite dedicated to her, Mark Vance's "Nevada County Epitaphs," premiered at the California Music in the Mountains Festival.

Ms. Musial has appeared at the Casalmaggiore International Festival in Italy; the Gold Country Piano Institute in California; the Academie musicale de Villecroze - Piano in the XXth Century, France; the 10th and 11th Internationale Sommerakademie Prag, Wien, Budapest and the International Music Festival in Paris. Selected venues have included among others, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, the Chan Centre in Vancouver, the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto, Pollack Hall in Montreal and the Weill Recital Hall in New York.

She has been a featured artist on radio broadcasts in Canada and the United States and has made television appearances on POLTV in Vancouver, CJNT in Montreal, OMNI Television in Toronto and TV-Polsat.

Ms. Musial holds a Masters degree with high honours from the Academy of Music in Cracow under Professor Stefan Wojtas, as well as an Artist Diploma from the Vancouver Academy of Music under Professor Lee Kum-Sing and a Diploma in Advanced Music Performance Studies from Montreal's Concordia University under Professor Anna Szpilberg and Philip Cohen who remains as her mentor and long term performance coach.

She also completed an Artistic residency at the prestigious Banff Centre. She has worked with many distinguished artists that include Anton Kuerti, Paul Gulda and Piers Lane.

She is a laureate of the Mrs. Cheng Koon (S.K.) Lee Scholarship as well as grants and scholarships from, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec - Vivacité Montréal, The Banff Centre, the Vancouver Chopin Society and the Quebec Polish Cultural Foundation.

"...while I play I strive to bring out the soul of the music that inspires me, and share its natural beauty and deep emotions with my audience..."