Beata Bilinska graduated in 1996 from the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, where she is now Associate Professor. Studying at Berlin's Hochschule der Kuenste she took master classes with such eminent pianists as Lee Kum Sing and John Perry. She has performed throughout Europe (winning 1st Prize and Audience Award in 2002 at the 17th International Piano Competition in Monza, Italy), in Argentina, and in the U.S., making a most impressive debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in October, 2003, of which Harris Goldsmith wrote (in The New York Concert Review): "Ms. Bilinska's emotionally open and warm-hearted approach came near to producing what I would have thought impossible, the feat of making this sprawling sonata [No.2 in B-flat Minor by Rachmaninov] actually enjoyable!" In December 2005 Bilinska played Penderecki's piano concerto "Resurrection" with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer. http://www.bilinska.pl
