Zofia Antes

Zofia Antes is a pianist and piano teacher affiliated with the Faculty of Art at the University of Warmia and Mazury (UWM), where she started working as an assistant in 2004 and continued as an Adjunct Professor after earning her doctorate from the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in 2007.

• Educational background: Primary School of Music in Pszczyna, High School of Music in Bielsko-Biała (diploma with distinctions, 1992), and the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (1992–1998) under Pawel Skrzypek, Professor Czeslaw Stanczyk, and Professor Maria Szwajger-Kułakowska.

Her career spans performance, education, and administration. She has performed with major Polish orchestras and collaborated with the "Akademos" String Quartet. As an educator, she has taught at the Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw since 1999, directed the Warsaw Piano Workshop (since 2007), and participated in international masterclasses like the Gold Country Piano Institute in the USA.

• Scientific awards: Three-time winner of the All-Polish Fr. Chopin Art Scholarship Piano Competition; pedagogical award from the Centre of Artistic Education.

Her students, including Maria Suwała and Fryderyk Hoang Dong, have won national and international piano competitions. Her work bridges performance excellence, pedagogical innovation, and administrative leadership in music education.