My musical path began in early childhood or perhaps even before birth. My grandfather was an organist, a choir and a band director and a music teacher before and after the Second World War in Poland.

My grandmother, although without formal training, often astonished her fellow church members with her pure soprano. On the other side of the family tree, my paternal grandfather was a piano tuner.

My earliest memories connected with music are those of singing rounds with my mother and harmonizing to Christmas carols. My first musical instrument was a baby glockenspiel which experienced a great deal of ware and tare from the constant playing of all the popular melodies heard on the radio and TV.

When I outgrew the glockenspiel, I dreamed of another instrument. I begged and pleaded with my parents to buy me a piano, but they were unable to fulfill my dream. Harsh realities of communist Poland made basic survival the first priority and left little room for extravagant wishes.

At the age of nine I enrolled at the local music school where I first studied classical guitar and eventually settled on flute and piano. I continued my education at the Conservatory of Music in Gdansk. As a member of the symphony orchestra and women's chorale I traveled to Hungary, Switzerland, and Germany. I graduated with honors, majoring in flute performance under Ewa Pinno and Katarzyna Wittschenbach.

In 1991 I came to California to join the Celebrant Singers with whom I traveled extensively throughout the States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and western Europe. Since 1994 I have made Tennessee my home.

I have been studying composition at the University of Tennessee School of Music under Dr. Kenneth A. Jacobs and Dr. James R. Carlson. My Danse Macabre for piano trio won the Southeastern Composers' League's Arnold Salop Memorial Composition Contest in 2007 and was a co-winner on the regional level of the Society of Composers Inc./ASCAP Student Composition Competition in 2007. I am a recipient of the School of Music Scholarship.

My music has been featured at the East Tennessee State University, King College in Bristol, TN, Southeastern Composers League's Forum at the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, College Music Society's Southern Chapter conference at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, as well as in recitals in Knoxville, TN.

I am an avid flutist with a special interest in chamber music. I am a member of the Empyrean Winds Quintet. I am also a graphic artist. My digital paintings are collected around the United States and in Europe.