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News Magdalena Lipska joins the SWR Symphony Orchestra as a member of the Academy

Magdalena Lipska was born in 1997 in Jelenia Góra, where she began her musical studies at the age of 12. In 2020 she graduated from the clarinet class of Arkadiusz Adamski at the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland). Since 2018 she has been a student in Shirley Brill's clarinet class at Nuremberg University of Music
. Since then she has played with the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. She has had the opportunity to work with conductors such as Lawrence Foster,Gábor Takács-Nagy, Giancarlo Guerrero, Claudio Vandelli and Ramón Tebar.

Magdalena has won many international competitions. In 2022 she won the 1st prize at the Chamber Music Competition of the Mozart Gesellschaft Nuremberg and the prize at the 9th International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Gdansk. She is a finalist at the 2022 Carlino International Clarinet Competition in Italy. In 2020 she won the Silverstein Global Clarinet Competition in the USA (Grand Prix). In 2018 she was awarded the 3rd prize at the International Music Competition "Emona Festival" in Ljubljana and the 1st prize for the performance of L. Janáček's Sonata at the International Wind Instrument Interpretation Competition Pro Bohemia in Ostrava.
At the West Pomeranian Clarinet Festival in Szczecin she was awarded a prize in the solo category and at the CEA Competition in Katowice (Grand Prix 2016) she won 1st prize in the chamber ensemble category (clarinet quartet). Magdalena is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland.