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Monika Quinn

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Concert pianist and pedagogue, Associate Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

Born in Montreal (Canada) into a family of musicians, she received her piano education in Warsaw under the guidance of Teresa Manasterska, Kazimierz Gierżod and Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn. She graduated with distinction from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music). As part of the Erasmus programme, she studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in the class of Anna Pfeiffer. She further refined her pianistic skills at masterclasses led by, among others, R. Buchbinder, A. Jasiński, W. Nossina, Sz. Esztenyi, B. Ringeissen and W. Wojtal.

She is a prizewinner of international piano competitions in Rome, Narva (Estonia) and Carlet (Spain). She has also received the Third Prize in Varna (Bulgaria), the Grand Prix in Konin, and the Second Prize at the EPTA Competition in Kraków. She reached the quarter-finals of the 15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and has been awarded a scholarship by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

She performs as a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, as well as in philharmonic halls in Łódź, Gorzów and Tallinn, and at Teatro Musical in Carlet, Teatro Argentina in Rome, and the Datong Culture Palace in China. In collaboration with TIFC and NIFC, she has presented Chopin recitals in Żelazowa Wola, the Royal Łazienki Park in Warsaw, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum and the Staszic Palace.

She has participated in festivals such as Chopin in the Luxembourg Gardens and Marathon Chopin in Paris, Polish Artistic Circles in China, La Folle Journée de Varsovie, Floralia Muzyczne – Music in Flowers, and Schumanniana in Łódź.

In 2023, her debut album À Kalergis (Chopin University Press) was released, featuring works by 19th-century composers dedicated to Maria Kalergis – a pupil of Chopin and an important figure in European artistic salons. Most of the works on the album are world premiere recordings, contributing to the promotion of lesser-known Romantic repertoire.

Her discography also includes Stanisław Moniuszko – Complete Works for Piano, Four Hands (2020, Chopin University Press), recorded together with Maria Gabryś-Heyke. Her latest album, Noskowski & Rytel: Piano Works (2025, Chopin University Press), offers a poetic journey through the lesser-known strands of Polish piano music at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Monika Quinn is a faculty member of the Department of Music Education and Eurhythmics at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. She also teaches piano at the ZPSM No. 1 in Warsaw.

Photo: Sisi Cecylia