Project artistic manager. She graduated with honors from Kraków Music Academy in the piano class of prof. Andrzej Pikul in 1997 and then in 2005 earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts and her post-doctoral degree in Musical Arts in 2013. She has given performances in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA, including appearances with the Radio Symphonic Orchestra in Kraków and the Tarnów Chamber Music Orchestra. As an accompanist, she has worked with a number of reputable pedagogists in their master classes, e.g. prof. Alison Pearce (London), prof. Christian Elßner (Drezden), prof. Charlote Lehmann (Hannover), prof. Ryszard Karczykowski, and prof. Helmuth Rilling (in Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart).
Project organizational manager. He is Assistant Proffessor at the Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University. He was awarded his doctoral degree in the humanities in 2009. During the same year he was appointed Assistant to the Head of the Teacher Training College of the Jagiellonian University. Between 2010 and 2014 he was the Coordinator for Student and Educational Affairs for the Combined English Philology and German Language programme offered by the English Philology Department of the Jagiellonian University, as well as the Head of the Practical English and Linguistics Section of the State School of Higher Education in Oświęcim.
Married to Patric Stirling-Aird of Kippenross Jane Stirling’s great nephew several times removed. Currently based in Dunblane, she is lively interested in restoring the memory of Jane Wilhelmina Stirling. Mrs Susan Stirling-Aird helped organize the celebration of our Scottish heroine’s birthday on 15 July 2016, first such event in the last 170 years.
So far, the following persons have agreed to join the Jane Stirling Project Honorary Committee:
