Viola player Karolina Pawul, born in Warsaw in 1998, received her first violin lessons at the age of 7. After some competition successes, she began playing the viola at the age of 16. She immediately won first prizes at the National Viola and Double Bass Competition (2014), III. Meeting of young viola players in Skierniewice, National Competition of Stringed Instruments for Youth (2015), 19th International Competition of Stringed Instruments in the Name of Bohdan Warchal (2015), l. Viola review on behalf of Tadeusz Gonet and National Viola Competition on behalf of Dominik Rutkowski (2016).
As a soloist, Karolina performed with the China Philharmonic Orchestra in the Forbidden City in Beijing at the Morningside Music Bridge Competition in 2016, where she also received lessons from Wang Shaowu, Teng Li, Steve Tenenbom, Emlyn Stam, Atar Arad, Sheng Li and Roberto Diaz . She had further solo appearances in the Polish Radio Studio, in the Warsaw Philharmonic, with the Sinfonietta Cracovia, in the Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music and as part of the rbb program “The Graduates” in Berlin. In 2022 she played as a soloist with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic.
Since the winter semester of 2017/18, Karolina has been studying with Prof. Hartmut Rohde at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She receives chamber music lessons in various ensembles (string trio, string quartet, piano quartet) from Prof. Eckart Runge, among others. Since 2019 she has been principal violist of the Berlin University of the Arts Orchestra.
From 2018 to 2020 Karolina was principal viola of the European Union Youth Orchestra. Concerts have taken her to Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Berlin (Konzerthaus), London (Royal Albert Hall), St. Petersburg (Mariinski Theater), Dubai, Canada, Cuba and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, among others. She played under conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Gianandrea Noseda, Stephane Denève, Wassili Petrenko and Valery Gergiev. Karolina has been a member of the Chamber Philharmonic Metamorphosen Berlin under the direction of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt since 2022.
From 2014 to 2017 Karolina was a scholarship holder of the Krajowy Fundusz narzecz Dzieci, from 2018 to 2020 of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and she has been a scholarship holder of the Paul Hindemith Society in Berlin since 2018. From March 2024 she has a temporary contract at the Dresden Philharmonic.
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