Alicja Wołyńczyk

Alicja Wolynczyk-Raniszewska is a solo/chamber/orchestral musician, who collaborated with many musicians, groups and orchestras and composers, and is one of the most appreciated teacher in Poland.She was a soloist with Sinfonia Viva orchestra in National Philharmonic, l'Harmonie de Lambres (Lambres lez Douai, France), Intermezzo Chamber Orchestra and Academy of Music F.Chopin Wind Orchestra. She collaborated with European Saxophone Ensemble.

She cooperated with the finest Polish orchestras such as National Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Sinfonia Iuventus, plays under Marc Minkowski, Antoni Wit, Janos Furst, Etienne Siebens, K. Penderecki and many others.

Solo, in duos, chamber groups, ensembles and orchestras, she has played in many European countries, performing recitals and playing at several music festivals, such as Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Musica Polonica Nova (Poland), Nowa Muzyka w Starym Ratuszu (Poland), Festival Franco-Polonais (France), La Folles Journee (France, Poland), Printemps Musical de l’Escaut (France), Musica Viva (Poland), etc. She also performed at World Saxophone Congresses (Slovenia 2006, France 2015) and II Polish Saxophone Congress (Warsaw 2018); on 30th year gala of saxophone class at Chopin University of Music (Warsaw 2011), in National Philharmonic as well as other philharmonics in Poland. Alicja Wolynczyk took part in other chamber and orchestras recordings, e.g. within orchestra: „Penderecki. Concertos for string instruments and orchestra” Sinfonia Iuventus, cond. K. Penderecki (DUX 2015), within saxophone quartet Joanna Turska „Suity Polskie” (Pro Musicae Artis 2011), etc. She cooperated with Drama Theatre in Warsaw: played in “Tamming of a Screw” by Shakespeare, director: Krzysztof Warlikowski, music: Pawel Mykietyn (1999-2009)

Composers such as Ł. Godyla, A.M. Huszcza, A. Gronau, D. Przybylski, M. Łukaszewski have written pieces for her. She also premiered many other works in various projects. She was an originator of Lem's Triptiche composers-performers project, receiving NIMIT national grant for it. Together with Cornelia Hoegl, she runs the Austria meets Poland project for years (also granted). Her cooperation with classical accordionist Jaroslaw Galuszka has brought her the 1st prize and a special prize at the 43rd International Accordion Competition, Klingenthal (Germany) in the duos category. They cooperate still (Les Sons de l'air). She is also a laureate of some other competitions. She played in saxophone quartets (Academia SQ, SaxMisja, A4). She collaborated with many renowed musicans. She took part in many recordings. Her debut CD Saxophone Conversations, DUX received 5 stars in HiFi Magazine.

Since 2008, she has been teaching saxophone in music schools in Warsaw and her students have been laureates at competitions in Poland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic etc. over 80 times and received many scholarships. She received several awards for her pedagogical work (Ministry of Culture, CEA). She has organized saxophone workshops with European saxophonists (A. Padilla, J. v.d. Linden, P. Gusnar, C. Hoegl, M. Supera, M.Krenn), and the Pedagogical Saxophone Conference in Warsaw (2017). She was a lecturer of masterclasses and workshops in Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia and France. She was a chairman of the jury of Young Saxophonists Confrontations in Małopolski Festival im. A. Saxa (Poland). She was a member of jury during Alpen Sax Festival (chairman of lower category, Italy), Emona Festival, SaxmeetingGo (Slovenia), and many national competitions in Poland.

She gave a lecture on contemporary technics at UMFC as well as on interpretation for doctoral students (University of Music Frederic Chopin in Warsaw). Lately she prepared a vlog for students on YT - Saxomama, and a YT's vlog for composers about contemporary techniques.

She received her PhD in Chopin University of Music (Warsaw) in 2019 (prof. Pawel Gusnar class). Earlier, she completed her saxophone studies with distinction at Warsaw Academy of Music and MA studies at Warsaw University (Information Services and Librarianship). Perfected her skills during international masterclasses with renowned saxophonists, such as Arno Bornkamp, Vincent David, Claude Delangle, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Jean-Denis Michat, Nobuya Sugawa, Lars Mlekush, Daniel Gauthier and many others. She received a scholarship from Polish Ministry of Culture and Socrates-Erasmus programme.

Alicja Wołyńczyk-Raniszewska plays on Buffet Senzo silver plated alto saxophone and JLV golden ligature.