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The Polish pianist and soprano, Dominika Mak, has benefited from tuition from Professors and Graham Caskie at Chethams’ School of Music (Seprtember 2010-July 2018); and Pascal Nemirovski at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (September 2019-July 2020). She completed her BA and MPhil in Music at Trinity College, Cambridge (2019-2022). While there, she became the Artistic Director of a Trinity College Music Society, a choral soprano in Trinity College Choir of Cambridge under Stephen Layton OBE, a Frédéric Chopin scholar, an avid accompanist, and a solo pianist. She is currently undertaking the Master of Arts course at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Christopher Elton (Professor Emeritus) (since September 2023).
During her time as an undergraduate, Dominika Mak became a laureate of various competitions, such as the National EPTA Competition, the Edith Leigh Prize, the Birmingham Conservatoire John Ireland Prize. The ‘liquidity’ of Dominika’s performances of F. Chopin's works has been described as ‘perfection.’ Recent performances include F. Chopin's Concerto in F minor Op. 21 with Sam Gray and TCMS Orchestra, F. Chopin’s Preludes Op. 28 and his Sonata in B Minor Op. 58.
Not limiting herself to the works of this particular composer, Dominika Mak is a keen promoter of the works of Polish composers such as Szymanowski and Bacewicz, as well taking a keen interest in French composers from Rameau to Ravel, which suits her colourful and nuanced tone at the instrument. She has given performances at St John’s Smith Square, The Alexandria Theatre, St Martin-in-the-Fields, West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge and other venues. She has benefitted from master-classes from Yevgeny Subdin, Dina Parakhina, Katya Apekisheva, Julian Jacobson, Stephen Hough and other esteemed pianists.
A keen chamber player, Dominika Mak has received coaching from Joseph Middleton as a scholar of the Arthur Bliss Lieder Scheme with baritone Florian Störtz. Other scholarships included the Instrumental Award Scholarship in Cambridge, and a choral scholarship in Trinity College Choir of Cambridge under Stephen Layton OBE, which led to accompanying Johannes Brahms’ Requiem (piano duet) with Trinity College Choir of Cambridge and Holst Singers (Director: Stephen Layton) in London and Cambridge. |
