Magdalena is among Canada’s most respected musicians, appreciated for her genuine warmth, dedication, and artistic sensibility. Praised for presentations as soloist, in chamber music, and concerto performances with orchestra, Magdalena astonishes her colleagues and audiences alike with powerful, memorable interpretations; her musical communication is always personal, poetic, and of the highest artistic calibre.

Magdalena is on faculty at the University of Prince Edward Island as Assistant Professor of Piano. She is sought after as an enthusiastic, encouraging, and skilled adjudicator, and conducts masterclasses as well as lecture recitals throughout Canada. Her studies were completed at the University of Lethbridge (awarded the Faculty of Fine Arts Gold Medal), the University of British Columbia, and McGill University (recipient of the prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) with distinguished Canadian pianists Glen Montgomery, Jane Coop, and Stéphane Lemelin. Her doctoral research focused upon the late Piano Sonatas of Viktor Ullmann.

Magdalena’s performing career has taken her from Vienna and Salzburg to Toronto and Montréal. Recent engagements have included numerous appearances in her new surroundings in Atlantic Canada as well as performances at McGill’s Musical Chairs Chamber Music Festival with clarinetist, James Campbell and violist, Kim Kashkashian, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto with soprano, Anna-Sophie Neher, concerto performances with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra, the Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra, and chamber performances with members of the PEI Symphony Orchestra. Since 2007, Magdalena has enjoyed invitations to the Festival of the Sound in solo performances as well as in collaboration with musicians such as Denis Brott, Cameron Crozman, Marion Newman, James Somerville, and visual artist, Alan Stein.