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He was born in 1989 in Krakow, into a family with musical traditions. At the age of ten, he won his first national piano competition, and one year later he made his debut with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in Europe, Asia and North America, including Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Great Britain, Russia, Israel, the USA, Japan, China, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Romania, Croatia, Georgia, Canary Islands, Ukraine and Hungary.

The pianist took part in many significant festivals and concert series: La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Chopin and His Europe, Rubinstein Piano Festival, Music in old Krakow Festival, Emanacje, La Folle Journée au Japon, La Folle Journée au Varsovie, ASEM Culture and Arts Festival, InternationalChopin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, Kiev Summer Music Evenings.

His concerts were broadcasted by Japanese Radio Ottava, Radio France Musique, Polish Radio and Polish Television. He has released two albums with Fryderyk Chopin's music.

He has won numerous awards at international piano competitions, including 1st prize at the 2nd International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (Budapest 2006), 2nd prize and three additional prizes at the 7th ‘Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam' International Competition for Young Pianists (Bydgoszcz 2007), 3rd prize at the 10th International Piano Competition (Hastings, Great Britain, 2014); he is also a semi-finalist and winner of three hors concours prizes in the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010), as well as a semi-finalist of the 14th International Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv (2014) and the 16th International Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in Salt Lake City (2014). In 2021, he won the 3rd prize and four additional prizes at the Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów, performing in a duet with Aleksandra Kuls, and in 2022 he won the second prize and the award for the best Polish band at the 21st Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition in Lodz, performing with Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Łaguniak.

Since 2016 he has been working as a teacher at the Mieczysław Karłowicz State Music School Complex in Krakow. He conducted master classes and music workshops in Poland and China. He has also been cooperating with the National Children's Fund for several years.

Voivode of Małopolska Region since 2009, politician. Graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology in Krakow. He also obtained a Master of Public Administration degree at the Malopolska School of Public Administration, organized in the cooperation with the Copenhagen Business School. He worked in Cracow Measuring Apparatus Factory as a designer, manager and chief designer. In the years 1990–2009 he was a Mayor of Niepołomice. In the years 1993–2001 he served as Deputy to the Polish Sejm (the lower chamber). He worked in the Finance Committee and the Public Committee on social policy. Stanisław was a candidate for Mayor of Krakow in the 2010 local elections, but was eliminated in the second round.

Sociologist and PhD Candidate affiliated at the Jagiellonian University where she is leading the research “Disability, motherhood, care. Reproductive autonomy and motherhood experiences of women with disabilities in Poland”. Her main interests are located in the fields of gender, disability studies and qualitative and participatory methodology. As a researcher she has been working in various scientific projects tackling social exclusion to reduce inequalities. In 2017 she published book “Różnym Głosem. Rodziny z wyboru w Polsce”[“In different voices. Families of Choice in Poland]” with (prof. J. Mizielińska and dr J. Struzik) on queer kinship and families created by non-heterosexual persons. She has been engaged in fieldwork on enforced resettlements after II World War (Ukraine, Poland) and border studies (German-Polish-Czech) that resulted in co-authoring documentary movies based on oral histories. She received scholarships at University College London (UK), Lethbridge University (Canada) and University of Iceland. She is a fellow of the Tokyo Foundation, The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund. She engages in local civil society initiatives and has collaborated with various international non-governmental organization among others in Poland, Ukraine, France, Sweden, India, Azerbaijan, Brazil. "

Lawyer, graduated at the Department of law at the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, Slovakia. For two tenures he was Deputy Mayor of the town of Poprad, Slovakia. Furthermore he was adviser in the office of the President of the Slovakian Republic and a member of the team of advisers of the Justice Minister of the Slovakian Republic. The President of the Slovakian Republic appointed him as a member of the Slovakian Commission on Human Rights.