Agata Sapieha

after completing her studies at the Music Academy in Warsaw, Agata studied with Oleh Krysa at the Moscow Conservatory. She attended many international early music courses. From 1993 to 97 she was a student in Simon Standage's class at the Dresdner Academie für Alte Musik where she took her diploma.
She is both a founder and artistic director of IL TEMPO baroque ensemble. She co-operates with numerous Polish and foreign early music ensembles and soloists, especially with Simon Standage, with whom regular concerts and recordings both in IL TEMPO's repertoire and Baroque dialogue programmes (violin duos and solos) have been a significant result of the co-operation programme.
She performs as a soloist (her repertoire includes the complete 6 Solo Sonatas and Partitas by J. S. Bach), plays rebec, vielle and mazanki (Polish violin). On request of the Polish Radio, Agata Sapieha recorded for them improvisations on medieval instruments inspired by Polish folk-violinists. In 2000 she was nominated twice by „Polityka” colour magazine to its main annual prize („Paszporty”) in the music category.
She participates in distinguished festivals, performs often and has made many radio, phonographic and television recordings.
Since 1992 Agata Sapieha has presented her own radio programmes for Channel 2 of Polish Radio. Since 1996 she has headed the Early Music Department and both the baroque violin class and baroque orchestra at the Warsaw Music Academy.
She has reconstructed missing parts of works played by IL TEMPO and worked out Sephardic songs for the production of W drodze (Migration) recorded by Polish Radio.
She is a founder and president of the Council of the Concert Spirituel Foundation established in September 1999.
She has been invited as a member of juries of both Polish and international competitions of early and chamber music - Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge, Ghitaralia (Przemysl), Schola Cantorum (Kalisz).
Agata Sapiecha is a founder, director and tutor of the International Summer Academy of Eary Music at Wilanów (Warsaw).

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music