Izabela Krzystek was born on 27 March 2003 in Nowa Sol. She started to learn the violin at the age of 7 with Barbara Szalata, MA, at the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Primary and Secondary State Music School in Zielona Gora. In 2015, her teacher became Iwona Wasiak, MA. She currently studies at the I.J. Paderewski School of Music in Poznan, where her teachers are Prof. Marcin Baranowski and his assistant Joanna Kreft, MA.

She has participated in music courses organised in Busko-Zdroj, Luslawice, Krzyzowa, Kazimierz Dolny, and Radziejowice, where her teachers were Prof. Marcin Baranowski, Karina Gidaszewska, PhD, Prof. Wieslaw Kwasny and Prof. Stefan Tarara.

She has performed with the Zielona Gora Philharmonic Orchestra during the String Festival “Polish Masters of Violin” and at a concert of best students of the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Primary and Secondary State Music School in Zielona Gora.

She has been awarded the Scholarship of the Zielona Gora Mayor.

She has won prizes at numerous competitions:

  • Honourable Mention – All-Polish Competition for Violinists and Violists during the J. Kaliszewska Festival – Poznan 2018
  • 3rd Prize – 15th Lubuskie Violin Meetings – Zielona Gora (Poland) 2019
  • 2nd Prize – 42nd All-Polish Bach Competition – Zielona Gora (Poland) 2019
  • 2nd Prize – 16th Lubuskie Violin Meetings – Zielona Gora (Poland) 2020
  • Honourable Mention – All-Polish Forum for Young Instrumentalists – Rybnik 2020
  • 1st Prize – Lubuskie Violin Competition “Baroque and Miniature” – Zielona Gora (Poland) 2020
  • 2nd Prize – 4th All-Polish Competition “Violin Talents” – Poznan 2021
  • Prize-Winner and Artistic Personality – 5th Presto Festival – Poznan 2021
  • 2nd Prize – 43rd All-Polish Bach Competition – Zielona Gora (Poland) 2021
  • 1st Prize – 17th Lubuskie Violin Meetings – Zielona Gora (Poland) 2021
  • 5th Prize – 3rd All-Polish Violin Competition “Be Like Wieniawski” – Lublin 2021
  • Honourable Mention – International String Competition – Elblag (Poland) 2021
  • 2nd Prize – 1st Tiziano Rossetti International Music Competition – Lugano (Switzerland) 2021
  • 1st Prize – King’s Peak International Competition – London (UK) 2022
  • 3rd Prize – All-Polish Violin Competition in Cieszyn – Cieszyn 2022
  • 2nd Prize – 18th Lubuskie Violin Meetings – Zielona Gora (Poland) 2022
  • 4th Prize – Beethoven Young Musician Competition 2023