“I have to admit, that I had never heard something like that before, astonished with a discovery of expressivness of Shostakovitsch’s music, admiring Marek Szlezer and Jan Kalinowski I entered with them in a complicated world of Dmitrij Schostakovitsch.”——Walentyna Żdanowicz  BELARUS N5, May 2013

The prestigious magazine The Strad wrote about the Cracow Duo: ‘Kalinowski and Szlezer, friends since childhood, have a wonderfully natural rapport and there is an arresting quality to their playing that gives life to the music.’ They studied together in Cracow and Paris. Musicians started to perform together as Cracow Duo almost fifteen years ago. Since that time they had received a high critical acclaim in Poland and abroad and gained sympathy of listeners. Positive reviews of their performances in media such as Polish National Radio, Slovenski Rozhlas, Radio Suddeutsche Rundfunk and prestigious musical magazines and web sites as ClassiqueInfo, Classical Music Review, Res Musica, American Record Guide, Ruch Muzyczny, Twoja Muza and others proof that fact.

In 2003 they started performing as the Cracow Duo.In 2015, during tournée around Korea and USA, they debuted at such prestigious venues as Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, Alfred Newman Hall in Los Angeles and Carnegie Hall in New York. At the end of August-September 2015 the artists performed the opening concert of their music tour in Mexico, in Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

A similar understanding of music and common artistic vision coupled with an excellent command of the instrument and a high degree of experience on the concert platform have produced interpretations that are emotional, sincere and spontaneous.