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Cornu Copiae baroque orchestra
Karolina Habało
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ABOUT US
The CORNU COPIAE baroque orchestra (from Latin: Horn of Plenty) was established in 2016 in Krakow. The name of the group comes from the Greek myth of the horn of Amalthea, filling with whatever its owner wanted. It refers to the extraordinary richness of the baroque and classical repertoire that the orchestra plays.
Its musicians are specialists in the field of historical performance - graduates of the best Polish and foreign music academies, but above all artists who are committed and in love with the music, performing with the most important historical ensembles and orchestras all over Europe. They try to get as close as possible to the authentic sound of the old epochs, playing original 18th-century instruments and their copies, and drawing knowledge from old treatises, letters and manuscripts.
Very special part of the Cornu Copiae's repertoire are concertos for more then one solo instrument and pieces in which every musician has a space to show her/his musical individuality, temperament and creativity. Ornamentations and improvisation bring us a lot of joy!
The orchestra performs in Poland, taking part in festivals such as Annum Festival, Early Music in Wilanów or Summer Concerts at Grochowska (Sinfonia Varsovia). Cornu Copiae also performed abroad, at the Sokolnice Žíjí Hudbou festival in the Czech Republic and in Germany, where in 2019 performed the Messiah oratorio together with Jugenkonzertchor Bonn.
KAROLINA HABAŁO
Violinist, leader and founder of the Cornu Copiae orchestra. A graduate of the Academy of Music in Krakow in the class of Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen and Zbigniew Pilch and Conservatorio di Musica in Palermo in the class of Enrico Onofri. She studied also with Elisa Citterio in Conservatorio di Musica in Udine.
Years of studying in Italy were extremely important for her musical and humanistic development.
Currently she teaches the historical violin in the Music Academy of Gdańsk.
From 2019 she has a pleasure to perform regularly as a member of Le Concert des Nations Orchestra, conducted by a legendary viola da gamba player - Jordi Savall.
Since 2018, she has been a permanent member of the Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense ensemble at the Warsaw Chamber Opera.
Together with Michaela Koudelkova', Maurycy Raczyński and Anna Cierpisz - musicians from the Cornu Copiae orchestra, they set up Ensemble Sanguineus - a chamber music group specialised in the music of Sturm und Drang period. In 2023 they were finalists in Rheinsberger Hofkapelle competition in Germany.
Karolina collaborated with many ensembles and orchestras in Poland and abroad, incl. La Chimera, Generation Baroque (as concertmaster), Talenti Vulcanici, Academia Montis Regalis, Silete Venti, Capella Cracoviensis, FAMD.pl orchestra, Royal Baroque Ensemble and others.
A few years ago she gave an interview about music with the headline "Authenticity is the most important thing". She continues to stand by her words.
In addition to classical music, she loves jazz and traditional music, singing, playing the drums and composing songs as Mała Wytwórnia Piosenek Pandemicznych (The Little Factory of Pandemic Songs). She enjoys a lot hiking, visiting museums and old cities, dancing, reading books and writing, preferably with a fountain pen.