IG: @mari.drafi

Violinist, serving as the deputy leader of the second violins at the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Polish Radio in Katowice (NOSPR). Abstract and intuitive painter. The starting point for her paintings is color (often arising from the timbre of sound, harmonies, and music) and movement.

Her artistic path began at the Public Music School of the First Degree named after Janina Garść in Lubliniec. During this period she discovered her passion for the arts. She continued her study at the Public Music School of the First and Second Degree named after Fryderyk Chopin in Opole. She is a recurrent winner of violin competitions in Poland (e.g. 3rd place at the VII Nation-Wide Forum of Young Instrumentalists in Rybnik, 2011), as well as international competitions. She’s an active chamber musician and soloist (performed, among others, at the Polaco de Musica Festival in Guayaquil, Ecuador). She graduated from the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in the violin class of Professor Marcin Baranowski, as well as from the Poznań University of Technology in the Faculty of Management.

She approaches life with enthusiasm and curiosity. Both of those she develops by numerous travels and exploring diversity – of thought, perspective, scientific fields, culture. For four years now, she completes her musical expression with painting. Her paintings were auctioned for aid to Ukraine in Wrocław in 2022 and were presented during the High Art Festival in Bytom in 2022 and 2023. In the fall of 2023, her first solo exhibition of paintings took place at the Gallery of the Cultural Center in Lubliniec.