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The Polish organist, Anna Jadwiga Pikulska, studied organ with Julian Gembalski from 2004 to 2009 at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Kattowitz. There followed postgraduate study in the Soloist class of Gerhard Gnann at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz, a department of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (JGU) there, which she concluded in 2012 with the Concert Examination. She was a fellowship recipient of the Walter und Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Foundation in Mainz as well as of the Paul und Maria Kremer Foundation in Cologne. In 2011 she was distinguished with the Prize for Specially Gifted Upcoming Artists of the JGU, bringing with it a teaching position in the Church Music/Organ department of the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz. From 2013 to 2015 she was a junior member of the Gutenberg Academy of the JGU. In the course of her studies with Jacques van Oortmerssen as well as master-classes with Christoph Bossert, Bernhard Haas and Daniel Roth she received valuable artistic input.
Anna Pikulska was singled out several times with scholarships from the Ministry of Culture, the Minister President and the Foundation for Young Talent of the President of the Republic of Poland. She has brought attention to herself by concerts at home and abroad as well as by winning prizes in several organ competitions. Thus for instance in 2007 she was awarded the 2nd Prize and a Special Prize in the Brünn International Organ Competition, in 2009 a distinction for the best performance of the work by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck at the International J. P. Sweelinck Organ Competition in Danzig, in 2012 the 1st Prize in the International Organ Competition FUGATO Bad Homburg as well as in 2014 the 2nd Prize and an Audience Prize in the 7th International Organ Competition associated with the Hermann Schroeder-Preis in Trier.
Since October 2016, Anna Pikulska has been active in within a postdoctorate position at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz as a scientific and artistic collaborator in the Department of Church Music/Organ. |
