Maria studied cultural anthropology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the same time she was busy singing and exploring the realm of music,
vocal studies at Royal Conservatory in The Hague (The Netherlands) followed. There she studied singing with Marius van Altena and Rina Cornelissens
and obtained a Master's Degree in early music singing.

Her musical and anthropological interests led her to music of the middle ages, renaissance and baroque with its richness of philosophy, cultural context and poetry. Later she discovered Lieder with fortepianoand now she is working more and more on contemporary repertoire.
Maria specialises in historical performance practice with an emphasis on music from the 16th and 17th centuries.

She is especially interested in the subject of women in music and with the ensemble Bella Discordia she explores the music of Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini and other women composers/singers of the early 17th cent. Italy.

In her repertoire she has major oratorio works of the baroque and the classical, baroque operas as well as Lieder and contemporary and experimental pieces. Because of the quality of her voice and singing she has been invited to perform complex polyphonic or contemporary works.

Since 2007 she has lived in Berlin working on her favourite repertoire with various early music and contemporary music ensembles and musicians, both in Germany and abroad.

As a sought after soloist she sings regularly solo parts in oratorios and participates in opera productions all over Germany, she is also a member of many early music ensembles such as Bella Discordia, Weser Renaissance Bremen (Manfred Cordes), Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel), Cappella Sagittariana Dresden (Norbert Schuster), Instrumenta Musica Dresden (Ercole Nisini), Rheinische Kantorei (Hermann Max), Himlische Kantorey, Sarband.
She performs also solo recitals with the accompaniment of a lute, baroque harp, harpsichord or fortepiano. She has taken part in numerous CD, radio and TV recordings, opera and theatre productions as well as research projects resulting in a musical performance.

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