Magdalena Malec

Magdalena Malec was born in Warsaw, where she took piano lessons from the age of five. She became passionate about early music, devoting herself to historical keyboard instruments.
She studied the harpsichord and organ in Poland and Finland, as well as in Italy with Lorenzo Ghielmi at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica di Milano and in Switzerland at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Andrea Marcon’s harpsichord class.
Magdalena Malec won the harpsichord prize at the 17th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2010. She has also won several prizes at major organ competitions, including the International Xavier Darasse Organ Competition in Toulouse in 2008, the Paul Hofhaimer prize at the International Organ Competition in Innsbruck in 2007 and the Francesco d’Onofrio International Organ Competition in Carunchio in 2006.

Magdalena Malec appears as a soloist all over Europe, giving harpsichord recitals at prestigious festivals including the Ruhr Piano Festival, Resonanzen in the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Early Music Festival in Utrecht and the Friends of Old Music in Basel. She also performs regularly as a chamber musician and has worked with internationally recognized Baroque ensembles such as the Hilliard Ensemble, La Cetra, the Capriccio Baroque Orchestra in Basel, La Scintilla, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and I Pomeriggi Musicali, as well as with such renowned artists and conductors as Cecilia Bartoli, Giuliano Carmignola, Andrea Marcon, Dennis Russell Davies and Federico Maria Sardelli. Magdalena Malec has made numerous CD and radio recordings, including for WDR, ORF and Accent 4. Her double album The Forqueray Family featuring works for harpsichord solo and chamber music by the Forqueray family was released on the Brilliant Classics label in 2009.

She has taught the harpsichord as Andrea Marcon’s assistant at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since 2015.