About me

Małgorzata Malke

Soloist and chamber musician Małgorzata Malke was nominated in 2022 for some of the most prestigious music awards, including the International Classical Music Awards, Opus Klassik and the Fryderyk Awards, for her album 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin by Georg Philipp Telemann — the artist’s solo recording debut.

For many years, she has collaborated with leading ensembles on the Polish and European early music scene. She is currently a regular member of Collegium Marianum under the direction of Jana Semerádová, as well as the Polish orchestras Arte dei Suonatori and Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa. She has also collaborated with Il Giardino Armonico and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie.

She was one of the founding members of {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna, with whom she recorded, among others, the album Concerto Grosso: Émigré to the British Isles for the Belgian label MUSO, performing the solo parts together with Martyna Pastuszka. For ten years, she also co-created the trio Extempore, with which she recorded the album Telemann: Solos & Trios, released in 2018.

In 2017, on her initiative, the period-instrument string quartet Equilibrium String Quartet was founded. The ensemble specialises in Polish Romantic repertoire and performs regularly in Poland and abroad. Together, they have recorded four albums devoted to Polish music of the period, featuring works by Józef Elsner, Władysław Żeleński, Karol Kurpiński, Zygmunt Noskowski and Franciszek Lessel.

Since 2017, she has also been exploring Classical and Romantic repertoire in chamber ensembles using historical pianos.

Małgorzata Malke graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where she studied violin with Adam Musialski and Baroque violin with Martyna Pastuszka. As an Erasmus scholarship student, she also studied at the music universities in Graz (violin) and Vienna (historical performance practice) under the guidance of Dominika Falger.

She performs early music on a violin made in 1719 by the French luthier Claude Pierray. She is also a recipient of a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Alongside her concert activity, Małgorzata Malke works with young violinists as a Suzuki Method teacher.