Music at the MNK Czartoryski Museum – Aleami Piano Duo

From 27 to 30 August 2026, the MNK Czartoryski Museum in Kraków will once again become a venue for chamber music performances of the highest calibre. Four concert evenings will bring together outstanding artists and young musicians who are among the most promising talents of their generation.

The programme for this year’s edition takes the audience on a journey through nearly three centuries of musical history – from Mozart, Bach and Dvořák, through Chopin, Wieniawski and Szymanowski, to Ravel, Rebecca Clarke and Kelly-Marie Murphy. Polish music holds a special place, presented both in its canonical works and in pieces that are less frequently performed, rediscovered by contemporary artists.

The festival will be opened by the Aleami Piano Duo, one of the most interesting Polish piano duos of the younger generation

Aleami Piano Duo: Aleksandra Pazdyga-Chojnacka, Michał Chojnacki – piano

Programme:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sonata in G major K. 357 (reconstruction by R. Levin)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Jesus bleibet meine Freude BWV 147
• Moritz Moszkowski – Album espagnol Op. 21 (Nos. 3 and 4)
• Astor Piazzolla – La muerte del ángel (arr. Aleami Piano Duo)
• Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op. 72 No. 2
• Bedřich Smetana – Vltava from the cycle Má vlast
• Zygmunt Noskowski – Highlander’s Fantasy, Op. 17

Aleami Piano Duo consists of Aleksandra Pazdyga-Chojnacka and Michał Chojnacki – a Polish piano duo specialising in repertoire for two pianos and four-hand piano. The duo was formed in 2017, and its members are graduates of the Academy of Music in Łódź. They are currently studying at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków under the supervision of Dr Bartłomiej Kominek.

The duo has won numerous international piano competitions, taking first prizes in Rome, Naples, Budapest and Kraków, amongst others. In 2024, the artists were accepted into the prestigious Piano-Piano Academy in Paris, where they studied under Elisabeth Leonska, Philippe Cassard, Gil Garburg, Arthur Ancelle and Ludmila Berlińska.

They have performed in renowned concert halls in Poland and abroad, including the Salle Cortot and the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in Paris, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music, and at numerous international festivals. In their work, they devote particular attention to Polish music and the works of the 20th and 21st centuries, combining their concert activities with the promotion of chamber music. They are also the founders and artistic directors of the DuetON International Chamber Music Festival.