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Agata Matusiak is a New York City-based flutist and piccolo player dedicated to performing and teaching classical music.
Her recent engagements include appearances with the Broadway Musical “Wicked”, So&So Orchestra, Richmond County Orchestra, Wind Ensemble Society of New York City and Calpulli Mexican Dance Company with whom she performed in The Town Hall Theatre in New York City and The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey.
An accomplished soloist, Agata has been the laureate of many national solo flute competitions including National Flute Festival in Sochaczew, Poland (2008, 2009, 2011) and 5th Flute Meetings in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland (2010). She also appeared as a soloist during the New York Flute Club Masterclass Series (2012), and in ‘Beyond the Master Class’ with internationally-acclaimed flutist Jim Walker in Los Angeles (2014, 2017).
Agata has played flute and piccolo with the Jelenia Gora Philharmonic and the Zielona Gora Philharmonic in Poland, toured with American Wind Symphony Orchestra in West Virginia under the baton of Robert Boudreau, and performed with the International Lutoslawski Youth Orchestra under the baton of Ewa Strusinska in Szczecin, Poland.
A prize-winning chamber musician, Agata has been a member of an award-winning flute quartet (winning first prize at the National Flute Meetings Competition in Poland), a piano-cello-flute ensemble (winning 2nd prize at the ‘Confrontations of Musical Ensembles’ in Poland), and an early music ensemble “PROAVITUS,” with whom she toured through Northern and Central Europe, performing in Sweden, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria.
Agata has performed in esteemed venues including Thayer Hall in Los Angeles, Mary Flagler Cary Hall at DiMenna Center in New York, Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall in Poland, National Forum of Music Concert Hall in Poland.
Currently, Agata lives in New York City, where she is a resident flutist at the Flute Center of New York, a substitute flutist in the Broadway Musical “Wicked”, and the member of Flute Center Flute Ensemble. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in flute performance at the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Poland. Learn more at www.agatamatusiak.com