Aleksandra Kuls was born in 1991. Her successes include First Prize at the Jozsef Szigeti International Violin and Viola Competition in Budapest and two special awards at the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznan in 2011. She graduated from the Zenon Brzewski Secondary Music School in Warsaw, where she studied with Magdalena Szczepanowska. For this release, Aleksandra has chosen works from J. S. Bach, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sergei Prokofiev, and Eugene Ysaye. These pieces offer a broad overview of solo violin output, from Bach’s early Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, to Penderecki’s La Follia which was premiered as recently as 2013.