Magdalena Pilch - Brillante II Music CD

Magdalena Pilch graduated in 1997 from the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, where she studied the flute with Grzegorz Olkiewicz. From 1998 to 2002, she attended postgraduate studies in the baroque flute at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen (Germany) under Linde Brunmayr-Tutz. In 2013 she completed the habilitation process at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, with a thesis: The comprehensive conception of the romantic flute, in aspects of construction, sound, technique and performance practice, according to 'Die Kunst des Flötenspiels in theoretisch-praktischer Beziehung dargestellt von A. B. Fürstenau' Op. 138. Since 2000 she has taught the baroque flute at the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, and since 2009 she has been an assistant professor at the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz. She plays Renaissance, baroque, classical and Romantic flutes. She is a co-founder of the first Polish consort of Renaissance transverse flutes, Epithalamion. The works on this new release consist of pieces by Carl Czerny, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Carl Maria von Weber.