Agata Meissner – harpsichord player and chamber music performer. Since 2020 she works at Mozarteum University in Salzburg as harpsichordist. A graduate (Masters) of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in the historic performance practice in the class of prof. Reinhard Goebel (2020) and harpsichord class of prof. Florian Birsak (2016), she has also advanced her musical talents under the direction of prof. Vittorio Ghielmi and prof. Marcello Gatti, among others. Since 2020 she is working on her PhD project under the supervision of prof. Thomas Hochradner.
Agata had already commenced harpsichord classes in secondary school and, having completed her studies in the harpsichord class of Anna Urszula Kucharska, PhD at the Grażyna Bacewicz State Music School in Warsaw, she earned her bachelor degree at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of prof. Leszek Kędracki. Concurrently she was developing her theoretical and humanistic interests, and studied in the College of Interdepartmental Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Warsaw, which she completed with a specialisation in musicology.
In 2019 she was awarded during the first Mozarteum Reseach Competition for her project about the use of tasti spezzati in performance of 17th century chamber music. Agata has earned the Scholarship of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland for educational achievements and universal cultural interests. She has also been a winner or finalist at the following harpsichord competitions in Poland and abroad: National Auditions of Students of Music Schools studying in Harpsichord Classes in Wrocław, Concorso Internationale “Principe Franceso Maria Ruspoli” in Vignanello (Italy).
Agata has given concerts in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Great Britain and Italy, as a soloist and in chamber music repertoire. She performed during various festivals, including the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Dramma per musica in Warsaw, Innsbrucker Festwoche der Alten Musik, Thüringer Bachwochen in Weimar, and unMittel BARock in Magdeburg and during the Bach Festival in Świdnica. She also performed among others with Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Roberto Gonzaleza-Monjas (2024, 2025, Live broadcast in ORF), Jonathan Bloxham, Bernard Labadie and with „MusicaVitae“ Orchestra with Banjamin Schmidt.
Agata has given concerts in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Great Britain and Italy, as a soloist and in chamber repertoire. She performed during various festivals, including the Innsbrucker Festwoche der Alte Musik, Thüringer Bachwochen in Weimar, and unMittel BARock in Magdeburg and during the Bach Festival in Świdnica.
She has participated in the performance of major baroque vocal and instrumental works, including the St. Matthew Passion and the St. John Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach, the Christmas Oratorio of Johann Sebastian Bach and the oratorio I Pellegrini al Sepolcro di nostro Signore by Johann Adolf Hasse, as well as operas L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, La Corona by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, working under the direction of Gernot Sahler, Joseph Wallnig, Alfredo Bernardini, Vittoria Ghielmi and Agata Sapiecha. She also played the solo parts of e.g., Harpsichord concerto Op. 40 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki..