Mariola Cieniawa.
She graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Kraków in Tadeusz Żmudziński's piano class. She honed her skills under Andrzej Jasiński at the Postgraduate Piano School of the Academy of Music in Warsaw, and then under Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover. She has won many prizes, including 1st Prize and Special Prize at the 1st Karol Szymanowski National Competition in Łódź (1983), Special Jury Prize at the 3rd International Piano Competition in Palm Beach, Florida (1989), 2nd Prize at the 5th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Palma, Majorca (1990) and 3rd Prize at the Chopin Competition in Cologne (1991). As a soloist she took part in many Polish and foreign music festivals, including: Naples, Mariánské Lázně, Duszniki, Turin, Pyongyang, and the Madrid-Bilbao International Piano Marathon. As a soloist she has performed with orchestras under the baton of leading Polish and foreign conductors: Witold Krzemieński, Krzysztof Missona, Józef Radwan, Renard Czajkowski, Tomasz Bugaj, Jerzy Swoboda, Stanisław Gałoński, Chikara Imamura (Japan), Giwi Asmaiparaschwili (Georgia), Wolfgang Hoyer, Sybille Werner, Peter Winkler (Germany). In her artistic career to date, she has given concerts in many European countries (Austria, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Italy, United Kingdom), as well as in Asia (Japan, North Korea), the United States and Egypt. She has repeatedly participated in the juries of piano competitions, including the International F. Chopin Competition in Cairo (Egypt 2012-2017). Since 1986 she has been teaching her own piano class at the Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2007 she received the Special Award "Bridges of the Starosty" for special achievements in the field of piano and popularisation of the art of music, and in 2013 the Medal of the National Education Commission. In August 2014, she was awarded the title of Professor of Musical Arts by the President of the Republic of Poland.

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The Sunday Chopin Recitals in Żelazowa Wola provide an opportunity to listen to performances by the most eminent Polish and foreign pianists, world-renowned professors and winners of International Chopin Competitions. The 45-minute concerts take place during the season from May to the end of September, every Sunday at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. In addition, the recitals at 12 p.m. on the last two Sundays of the month are broadcast on the YouTube channel and Facebook page of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.