Palzewicz Ensemble

Michal Palzewicz (cello) a native of Poland began his musical training at the age of seven. When he was seventeen years old, with his friends, he founded the Elsner String Quartet. As a member of his group Michal studied with many world-renowned quartets including the Amadeus String Quartet. The Elsners went on to become the quartet-in-residence at the Britten-Pears School, Suffolk, England. After winning the European Young Concert Artists Competition in Leipzig the Elsner quartet was enthusiastically invited to the Manhattan School of Music for a full scholarship. During this time they performed at many prestigious venues including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall while continuing to play in Europe as well. Palzewicz has a versatile style of playing which he attributes to his many wonderful teachers and coaches, which include the members of the Amadeus String Quartet, David Soyer, Michael Tree, Hugh Maguire, Robert Mann, Pinchas Zuckerman, and Isidore Cohen.

Cecily Palzewicz grew up in Washington, D.C. She began her musical career at the Levine School of Music at age five where she studied violin, chamber music and later, voice. She continued her education at the Walnut Hill School for the Performing and Fine Arts where she developed her passion for classical voice and operatic performance. Cecily went on to study with Richard Miller at the Oberlin Conservatory and then with Marlena Malas at the Manhattan School of Music where she received her Bachelor's of Music degree. Since then Cecily has performed classically throughout the U.S., both in operas and as a soloist. She has also pursued other musical projects, including helping compose and record the score for a guided meditation CD entitled 'Opening Meditation'. She and her husband developed a restorative yoga with sacred chant workshop that they have given for the past two years in their hometown of Ashland, Oregon. Cecily is thrilled to be working with her new band, Trine, a collaboration that includes her husband as well as percussionist Jason Cedar Miller. However, her most important project these days is her one-year-old daughter Lucia.

Lucyna Palzewicz was born in 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She began her piano studies at age five. At age nine she began playing in a duo with her brother, cellist Michal Palzewicz, thus creating a life-long passion for ensemble playing. She continued to focus her attention on chamber music and accompaniment throughout the following years and performed regularly with instrumentalists and singers. In 1994 she won a prize for accompaniment at the XX Century Music Competition for Young Performers in Warsaw. She is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw as well as Warsaw University, where she studied English literature. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Poland, Mexico and the United States. In 2007 she moved to Dublin, Ireland where she currently lives.