Zuzanna Grzegorowska

Zuzanna Grzegorowska is a dancer, choreographer, costume designer and the founder of Varsavia Galante – Poland's Baroque dance ensemble. In 2020, Zuzanna’s artistic focus shifted toward activity as a soloist and collaborator on a wide range of projects. Zuzanna has been a frequent participant at the renowned "International Summer Academy of Baroque Dance” in Löftadelen, Sweden, which has certified her skills to be of the highest standard. She has studied Baroque dance under some of the field’s leading choreographers, including Marie-Geneviève Massé, Nathalie van Parys and Ana Yepes.

During her time at Varsavia Galante, Zuzanna performed across Poland and Germany. A highlight was her debut in Dido and Aeneas at the Polish Royal Opera. Zuzanna has also performed in Handel’s Alcina with the Ballet Baroque Berlin in Switzerland and in Germany. Since 2019, Zuzanna has worked as a choreographer for the International Early Music Summer Academy in Warsaw, and has prepared choreographies for J. B. Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Atys, M.A. Charpentier's Acteon and J.F. Rebel's Caracteres de la Danse. In 2021, her collaboration with Weronika Paine resulted in the successful production of a solo dance recital, "La Reine Danse", which was broadcast on the TVP Kultura, the national Polish television channel. In addition to her activity as a performer and choreographer, Zuzanna works as a lecturer of historical dance at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

Weronika Paine

Weronika Paine is a Polish harpsichordist and organist living in Switzerland, who performs as a soloist and chamber musician. A die-hard fan of historical dance and a spontaneous researcher of intriguing ideas, she views music-making as gifting joy and strives to invite and include audiences in a shared experience of beauty. A review of her concerts with Brezza ensemble at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid has distinguished her “stylistic mastery and refined sound” (Scherzo, January 26, 2023).

Enchanted by the harpsichord since the early childhood, Weronika’s interests have been fostered by supportive musical family environment and her mother’s unyielding enthusiasm for artistic upbringing. Over the years, Weronika’s deepening fascination with early music resulted in her pursuing studies of historical keyboards, pedagogy, and medieval instruments in the classes of Andrea Marcon, Tobias Lindner, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Wolfgang Zerer, and Corina Marti at the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, as well as with Christophe Rousset privately. Deeply charmed by the French repertoire for the harpsichord and the organ, Weronika broadened her knowledge through work with historical dancers. This interest, alongside with profound appreciation for the whole history of the cantus firmus composition technique, encouraged her to join international masterclasses and to seek to expand her experience by regularly accompanying Gregorian schola singing at the Tridentene masses in Basel. Placing particular programs in the broader musical and cultural context is especially meaningful for Weronika, as presented in her two master’s theses on J.J. Froberger and F. Couperin respectively, and in her favouring the performance form of a lecture recital. Recently Weronika has been dividing her time between early music ensembles of different instrumentations, varying forms of expression, and a diversity of explored styles of repertoire. She has performed in Europe, North America and Australia.

In summer 2019 Weronika graduated from the master’s degree at the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, where she studied harpsichord and organ with prof. Andrea Marcon and prof. Tobias Lindner respectively. Between 2018 and 2019 she also studied privately with Christophe Rousset and Władysław Kłosiewicz. Having finished her harpsichord pedagogy studies with prof. Jörg-Andreas Bötticher in June 2021 and historical organ performance studies in January 2022 with prof. Wolfgang Zerer, Weronika completed a post-graduate program in Corina Marti’s medieval keyboard instruments’ class at the same institution. Weronika has also refined her skills during masterclasses and lessons with renowned virtuosos and pedagogues, such as Skip Sempé, Carole Cerasi, Bertrand Cuiller, Jean-Marc Aymes, Nicholas Parle, Menno van Delft, Mitzi Meyerson.

In May 2017, Weronika was appointed as the main organist in the Catholic parish in Wauwil, Lucerne. In summer 2019 her position was expanded to include the neighbouring parish in Schötz, where she is also a conductor of the Choir of St. Maurice.