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Fields of Study:<\/strong> Degrees & Studies:<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/prod6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2024\/12\/kinga-augustyn-faculty.jpg” alt=”Kinga Augustyn, Professor, Violin” title_text=”kinga-augustyn-faculty” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”66%” custom_margin=”||25px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px|0px|false|false” box_shadow_style=”preset4″ box_shadow_color=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”15px” custom_padding=”|||7px||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Biographical Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n Polish-American Kinga Augustyn is a versatile New York City-based virtuoso concert violinist and recording artist. \u201cStylish and vibrant\u201d (The Strad Magazine), and \u201cbeyond amazing, one hell of a violinist!\u201d (The Fanfare Magazine), Ms. Augustyn has performed as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe and Asia, and they include the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Queens Symphony Orchestra, Catskill Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum, and the Wroc\u0142aw Philharmonic Orchestra. She has toured China and performed at China\u2019s most prestigious venues such as Beijing Poly Theater and Shanghai Oriental Art Center. As a recitalist and chamber musician Kinga has appeared at the Stern Auditorium and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Aspen Music Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center, Teatro Ristori and Gran Teatro La Fenice. In addition to concerti with orchestras and recitals with piano, Ms. Augustyn frequently performs unaccompanied solo violin recitals and is also a member of the Baroque Virtuosity trio with lutist Christopher Morrongiello and harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky.<\/p>\n Kinga Augustyn is often praised for her musical interpretations, profundity, deft phrasing, beautiful tone, mastery of the bow, perfect intonation, and for unique programming ideas. \u201cWith completely secure technical control, she couples a tapestry of tone color to her innate musicality\u201d (The Fanfare Magazine). Music Web International describes her recording of the Bruch Violin Concerto with Janacek Philharmonic as \u201cextremely moving and expressive,\u201d characterized by \u201cbeauty, richness and smoothness of her tone,\u201d and as \u201cmusic she responds to on a deeply personal and emotional level.\u201d<\/p>\n Ms. Augustyn\u2019s repertoire includes music both standard and lesser\u2013known, stylistically varied and ranging from early baroque to contemporary. Kinga is an advocate of new music and has performed and recorded multiple world premieres of works written especially for her. She also researches and brings awareness to lesser-known composers, including those of her native Poland. Up to date, Augustyn has recorded three albums of Polish music.\u00a0<\/span>Gra\u017cyna Bacewicz: A Portrait<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>was released in 2022 on Centaur Records. The other two albums, released on Naxos, are world premieres by the contemporary Polish composer Romuald Twardowski (b. 1930), recorded with the Torun Symphony Orchestra and Mariusz Smolij, and the Polish Violin Music, a highly praised, \u201cfascinating\u201d (The Strad) album of lesser-known Polish works.<\/p>\n In 2021 Augustyn released on Centaur Records Turning in Time, a critically acclaimed album featuring 20th and 21st Century unaccompanied solo violin works by Krzysztof Penderecki (world premiere of\u00a0<\/span>Capriccio<\/em>), Debra Kaye (world premiere of\u00a0<\/span>Turning in Time<\/em>), as well as other works, significant in the violin repertoire, by Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Isang Yun and Gra\u017cyna Bacewicz. Gramophone calls the album \u201cremarkable\u201d and praises Augustyn for \u201cvibrant intensity, caressing the phrases and bringing bold focus to the electric unfolding of creativity\u201d.<\/p>\n Augustyn\u2019s expanding discography also includes the Paganini Caprices, which music critics consider as convincing as Perlman\u2019s or Midori\u2019s, and an \u201can enduring benchmark\u201d (Classical Net); La Pasi\u00f3n, featuring 6 Tango-Etudes for Solo Violin by Astor Piazzolla; Telemann 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin (Centaur Records), in which \u201cher interpretations are convincing in every piece here, and the Baroque spirit of the violin and Telemann\u2019s mastery abiding throughout\u201d (Music Web International); and Glen Roven\u2019s Runaway Bunny Concerto performed with Catherine Zeta-Jones as a narrator and featuring Kinga Augustyn\u2019s Solo Violin Cadenza (GPR Records).<\/p>\n Ms. Augustyn has won international awards, including First Prizes at the Alexander & Buono International String Competition (USA), Artist International Presentations (USA), and the J. S. Bach String Competition (Poland), as well as other top honors that include prizes at the Johannes Brahms International Competition (Austria), the Kloster Schoental International Young Artist Competition (Germany), Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand), and the Kosciuszko Foundation Wieniawski Violin Competition (USA). On a regular basis Kinga Augustyn plays a violin made by Joseph Gagliano in 1774, generously on loan to her from a private collector. When playing early music in a historically informed style, she plays Lukas Wro\u0144ski\u2019s uniquely designed violin inspired by the famed statue Venus de Milo.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/music\/faculty” button_text=”Back to Faculty Listings” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”16px” button_text_color=”#000000″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Violin Performance<\/p>\n
BM, The Juilliard School
MM, The Juilliard School<\/p>\n
Ms. Augustyn studied at The Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay, Cho-Liang Lin, and Naoko Tanaka, and earned there both the Bachelor and the Master degrees as a full tuition scholarship recipient. She holds a doctorate from the Stony Brook University, where she was also awarded a full-tuition scholarship and assistantship and worked with Phil Setzer and Pamela Frank.<\/p>\nKinga Augustyn<\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t