Monika Kornel
Monika
Kornel (Malczyńska) started her piano studies at the Primary Music School in her
hometown Torun (Poland) since she was 7 years old. After a successful
entry Monika studied at the State Conservatorium of Music, where she
received her Diploma in Music and Piano Performance. During her last
years of school she was nominated for performances with the Pomeranian
Symphony Orchestra playing the piano concertos of Grieg, Beethoven and
Rachmaninov, and with the Chamber Orchestra the F Minor concerto by
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Married to a violinist, Monika performed in many violin-piano recitals in Poland, Venice, Verona, Canberra and Sydney, among other cities.
After furthering her studies at the Academy of Music in Lodz ( Poland), Monika moved to Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Music degree in piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in the class of Professor Nikolai Evrov. Here she broadened her keyboard studies by including the harpsichord, taking lessons with Paul Dyer (Artistic Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra) and Ray Harvey.
In 1995 she participated in master classes with Robert Wooley in London and Bob van Asperen in Amsterdam. In December of that year Monika was invited to perform the harpsichord concertos of J.S.Bach with the Torun Chamber Orchestra in Poland.
On her return, Monika enrolled for the harpsichord course to further her studies in early music. In 1999 she completed her Master of Music in Performance degree with Paul Dyer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Monika performs regularly as both soloist and continuo player with a number of well known ensembles and orchestras including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Willoughby Orchestra, SBS Orchestra, the St Laurence Baroque Orchestra, Marais Project, Salut!Baroque. In 1998, she also appeared in the Sydney Bach Festival and regularly participating in major music festivals and concerts in Australia.Monika’s French Double Harpsichord, based on an original instrument by Jean-Henri Hemsch (1756), was made in Melbourne in 1975 by Alastair McAllister and recently restrung and revoiced by Carey Beebe.