Magdalena Sypniewski, Hanna Salzenstein, Cécile Chartrain
Biography Magdalena Sypniewski, Hanna Salzenstein, Cécile Chartrain
Magdalena Sypniewski
A young violinist originally from Toulouse, Magdalena Sypniewski has a rich and comprehensive musical activity, rewarded by a nomination as Classical Talent 2022 by Adami.
Since her 1st international prize at the Bellan Foundation Competition (2015), she has also won several Special Prizes from the Ravel Academy and distinguished herself at the Ginette Neveu Competition by receiving the Contemporary Interpretation Prize.
More recently, she won a 2nd prize at the Cullera International Competition (Spain, 2020), a 2nd prize and prize for best Mozart at the Vittorio Veneto International Competition (Italy, 2023) and was a finalist at the Wajnberg International Competition (Poland, 2021).
After starting the violin at the Toulouse Conservatory, she studied in Paris with Suzanne Gessner and Roland Daugareil, then in Berlin with Stephan Picard during an Erasmus exchange. She has been selected to participate in international academies such as Villecroze, the Kronberg Academy masterclasses, the Jaroussky Academy, or the Seiji Ozawa Academy, which allow her to train with great musical personalities: Mihaela Martin, Pavel Vernikov, Nemanja Radulovic… During her last year at the Conservatoire, she also took part in the Nouvelle Académie de l’Orchestre de Paris, which allowed her to play for six months within this group.
Born into a family of musicians, Magdalena forms the Sypniewski Trio with her sisters Caroline and Anna, currently in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation. Students of Günter Pichler at the Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid, they explore the repertoire for string trio and are invited to many festivals: Août musical de Deauville, Ohrid Summer Festival (Macedonia), Orangerie de Sceaux… They have also been heard in a quartet alongside Alexandre Kantorow, Clément Lefebvre and Adam Laloum.
Her musical sensitivity particularly draws her towards the repertoire of early music, which she tackles by integrating a second Master at the CNSM. She regularly performs in historically informed ensembles (Pygmalion, les Arts Florissants, le Consort, Jupiter…).
In 2025, her first album “Un Italien à Paris” will be released with the Initiale label, around the personality of Giovanni Battista Somis, an Italian composer from the early 18th century.
Generously supported by the Safran Foundation for Music and the Meyer Foundation, she plays a violin by Charles Coquet made for her in 2020, as well as an 18th century “old Paris” violin.
