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Monika Kaźmierczak, carillonneur and Paweł Hulisz, trumpeter

Monika Kaźmierczak, born in 1977 in Danzig, Poland, is the city carillonneur of her home town, where she plays the carillons of the Saint Catherine's Church and the Danzig town hall. In 2003 the Dutch government gave her a Huygens Scholarship to study the carillon at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, where she was received her Bachelor's diploma in 2004 and her Master's in 2005. In 2007 she received a cultural scholarship from the city of Danzig to take master classes in carillon performance given by Geert D'hollander at the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" in Mechelen, Belgum. In 2012 the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Danzig awarded her a doctoral degree in carillon performance. In 2003, 2004 and 2013 she won first, second and third prize at the Dutch carillon competitions in Almelo, Venlo and the competition for carillon duos in Zwolle respectively. In 2021 the city of Danzig awarded her the Splendor Gedanensis and she also received the Gloria Artis, the bronze medal for cultural achievements, from the Polish Ministry of Culture. From 2011 to 2015 she was the president of the Polish Carillon Association. She has been directing the Danzig Carillon Festival since 2013, performs as part of the Danzig festival of early music Actus Humanus, plays occasionally with Danzig jazz trumpeters as well as trumpeters specialized in performing tower music and gives recitals in many European countries and the USA. She has released CDs of music for carillon and jazz-trumpet, tower music played by carillon and trumpet and premiered and recorded carillon music written by leading contemporary Polish composers such as Zymunt Krauze and Hanna Kulenty. Her CD featuring contemporary Polish carillon music which was released in 2021 was nominated the following year for the prestigious Fryderyk-Award.

Paweł Hulisz, born in 1975 in Inowrocław, Poland, is a trumpeter who works together with the Musical Theatre of Gdynia. He studied playing the modern trumpet at the Academy of Music in Danzig and the historical trumpet at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz and graduated in 1994 and 2013 respectively. In 2021 he was awarded a Doctorate in Fine Arts from the Academy of Music in Danzig. In 2012 he received the Cultural Scholarship of the President of Danzig which enabled him to record his first soloalbum which featured Polish music from the 1920s and 1930s. He co-founded the Keepin' Tradition Jazz Quartet in 2004 and the Krystyna Durys Band in 2015 and has worked as a session musician with a number of prominent Polish popstars. He also performs baroque and classical music on historical trumpets and in 2015 founded the Tubicinatores Gedanenses ensemble, which has revived the historical practice of playing music from the towers of churches and town halls. Since 2017 he has staged the Danzig Tower Music Festival and in 2019 he founded the Capella Warmiensis Restituta ensemble which specializes in performing the music of the Warmians, a Prussian tribe that lived in northeastern Poland until the 18th century. His performances as a session musician, chamber musician and soloist have been featured on over sixty CDs including the album Symphonic Theatre of Dreams recorded with the Sinfonietta Consonus and he has taken part in many music festivals.