{"id":9534,"date":"2018-09-30T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T10:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/pupils-and-students-2\/balaban-jan-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:43:22","slug":"balaban-jan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/pupils-and-students-2\/balaban-jan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Olesik Zofia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Born in 2005 in Katowice. Between 2012 and 2018 she attended the Stanislaw Moniuszko State Comprehensive Music School in Katowice, where her teacher of violin was Urszula Szygulska MA. Presently she studies at the Jadwiga Kaliszewska Secondary Music School in Poznan, where her teacher of violin is Prof. Marcin Baranowski.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]She was awarded prizes at numerous music competitions, such as:<\/p>\n

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  • 1st<\/sup>Prize \u2013 International Violin Competition \u201cVivaldi 337\u201d, Wieliczka, April 2013<\/li>\n
  • 2nd Prize \u2013 4th Violin Festival \u201cLittle Violin Player\u201d in Olkusz, May 2013<\/li>\n
  • Grand Prix \u2013 1st All-Polish Violin Miniature Competition in Warsaw \u2013 March 2014<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize \u2013 Meetings of Young Instrumentalists in Chrzanow, May 2014<\/li>\n
  • 3rd Prize \u2013 6th International J. Garscia Violin Competition in Stalowa Wola, May 2014<\/li>\n
  • 5th Prize \u2013 \u201cTalents for Europe\u201d, Bohdan Warchal International Competition in Dolny Kubin (Slovakia), May 2014<\/li>\n
  • 2nd Prize \u2013 International Violin Competition \u201cVivaldi 337\u201d, Wieliczka, April 2015<\/li>\n
  • 3rd Prize \u2013 \u201cTalents for Europe\u201d, Bohdan Warchal International Competition in Dolny Kubin (Slovakia), May 2015<\/li>\n
  • 2nd Prize \u2013 7th<\/sup>All-Polish Violin Competition \u201cOskar Rieding, Master of Composing Music for Children\u201d, Warsaw, June 2015<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize \u2013 5th Piotr Janowski Violin Competition in Grudziadz, December 2015<\/li>\n
  • 3rd Prize \u2013 8th<\/sup>All-Polish Tournament for Young Violinists, Nysa, May 2016<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize \u2013 13th G. Bacewicz All-Polish Violin Competition in Wroc\u0142aw, May 2016<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize, Laureate title, and Special Prize for the best performance of \u201cIntermezzo\u201d by Bohuslav Martinu \u2013 XV International Musical Competition Pro Bohemia in Ostrava, April 2017<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize \u2013 41st Stanislaw Hajzer J. S. Bach All-Polish Competition in Zielona Gora, December 2017<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize \u2013 6th Piotr Janowski Violin Competition in Grudziadz, December 2017<\/li>\n
  • Laureate title \u2013 Jadwiga Kaliszewska Festival in Poznan, March 2018<\/li>\n
  • 2nd Prize \u2013 International Violin Competition \u201cVivaldi 340\u201d, Wieliczka, April 2018<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize \u2013 \u201cTalents for Europe\u201d, Bohdan Warchal International Competition in Dolny Kubin (Slovakia), May 2018<\/li>\n
  • Grand Prix \u2013 1st All-Polish Violin Competition \u201cBe Like Wieniawski\u201d in Lublin \u2013 June 2018<\/li>\n
  • Grand \u2013 Prix Jadwiga Kaliszewska All-Polish Violin Competition, Poznan Poland \u2013 2019<\/li>\n
  • Laureate of the Young Poland scholarship program \u2013 2019<\/li>\n
  • 3rd Prize at the International Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition Brussels (Belgium) \u2013 2019<\/li>\n
  • 1st \u00a0 Prize at International Music Competition, Brussels – 2020<\/li>\n
  • 1st \u00a0Prize \u2013 XI \u00a0All- Poland Serwaczynski Violin Competition Lublin, Poland, Belgium – 2020<\/li>\n
  • Grand Prix at All-Polish Violin Competition \u201eJak Wieniawski\u201d in Lublin, Poland 2021<\/li>\n
  • 2nd Prize – Kreutzer International Violin Competition, 2021<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize ex-aequo at the 15th K. Lipinski and H. Wieniawski International Competition in Lublin, Poland 2021<\/li>\n
  • 2nd Prize – 3rd National Young Musicians Competition Gliwice, 2021<\/li>\n
  • 3rd Prize at the All-Polish Groblicz Family Violin Competition Krakow 2022<\/li>\n
  • GRAND PRIX at the 1st All Ukrainian Festival-Competition “Maestro dell’ Arco” Kiev 2023 in Ukraine<\/li>\n
  • GRAND PRIX National Competition of the Centre for Artistic Education – Kielce 2024 Poland<\/li>\n
  • Finalist of the 20th Khachaturian International Violin Competition Yerevan, Armenia 2024<\/li>\n
  • Distinction 7th International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition Vilnius – Lithuania 2025<\/li>\n
  • 1st Prize – International Michal Spisak Competition in D\u0105browa G\u00f3rnicza 2025<\/li>\n
  • First Prize and five special prizes at the 11th Z. Jahnke National Competition in Pozna\u0144.
    \nQualification for the International Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Pozna\u0144 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    She has already given a number of concerts as a soloist with the Zabrze Philharmonic and in collaboration with the Institute for Music Promotion and Popularisation SILESIA. She has also taken part in numerous master classes and violin workshops. In 2016, she was awarded scholarship of the Polish Children\u2019s Fund. She has been awarded twice the Prize of the President of Katowice for talented learners of music schools in that city. In the 2017\/18 school year, she was awarded of the CEA Scholarship.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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    \nBorn in 2005 in Katowice. Between 2012 and 2018 she attended the Stanislaw Moniuszko State Comprehensive Music School in Katowice, where her teacher of violin was Urszula Szygulska MA. Presently she studies at the Jadwiga Kaliszewska Secondary Music School in Poznan, where her teacher of violin is Prof. Marcin Baranowski.
    \n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]She was awarded prizes at numerous music competitions, such as:<\/p>\n

    1stPrize \u2013 International Violin Competition \u201cVivaldi 337\u201d, Wieliczka, April 2013
    \n2nd Prize \u2013 4th Violin Festival …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6839,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_rightnav.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12901,"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9534\/revisions\/12901"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcinbaranowski.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}