Weronika Józefina Dziadek

Born in Katowice, Poland, in 1995. From 2014 to 2022 she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music, first in the Telefónica Violin Chair with professor Zakhar Bron and currently in the Fundación BBVA Viola Chair with Professor Nobuko Imai.

She completed her studies at the Katowice School of Music with Professor Robert Kabara and has attended masterclasses by Natalia Prishepenko, Christoph Poppen, Miriam Fried, Antoine Tamestit, Oliver Wille, and Tabea Zimmermann, among others. She has just been awarded second prize at the 3rd Oskar Nedbal Viola Competition and has won the first prize at the Breslavia National Violin Competition (Poland) and at the international competitions of Jar Kociana (Czech Republic), Dolný Kubín European Talents (Slovakia) and the 10th Belgrade International Music Competition (Serbia), as well as at the Musical Performance Competition of the La Mancha Philharmonic Orchestra (Spain). In addition, she has won second and third prizes at the Gdansk Aleksandra Januszajtis and at the Lublin Stalislaw Serwaczyński national competitions, respectively.

As a student of the School, she has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antoni Ros-Marbà, Josep Pons, Stefan Lano, András Schiff, Plácido Domingo, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Jaime Martín, Pablo González, Pablo Heras-Casado and David Afkham, and that of the Sinfonietta under the baton of Jorge Rotter. In 2021 she participated in the 30th anniversary tour of the School with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, with whom she performed at Madrid's Teatro Real, at Bratislava's Reduta Hall, at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc Academy and at Vienna's Musikverein. She has been part of the Stoneshield, BP Mendelssohn, and Enagás Schumann quartets, the Mistral and the BBDO Contrapunto trios and Banco de España Arriaga and Tricorne ensembles, as well as that of the Casa de la Moneda Scarlatti Ensemble.