Annika Mikołajko-Osman PhD

Coloratura soprano, soloist, chamber musician, multi-instrumentalist, pedagogue, graduate of the Academy of Music in Cracow at the Faculty of Artistic Education and Rhythm and the Faculty of Vocal and Acting, graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice and postgraduate studies in Culture Management at Jagiellonian University.

In 2025 she defended her doctoral thesis at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow, which was devoted to vocal contemporary music from the borderline of instrumental theater.

She made her debut on the stage of the Kraków Philharmonic in Claude Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande conducted by Gabriel Chmura.

As a soprano, she primarily performs contemporary music. She has premiered numerous works by composers from around the world. Among others, she was a soloist in the world premiere of Michal Dorman’s Dodi li va 'ani lo, Mariusz Kramarz’s Little Mass in G Major, Julia Schwartz’s Lamento for soprano, tenor saxophone, piano and conga, and Karol Osman’s Hortus Nocti for soprano and orchestra.

For more than 10 years, she has been conducting original musicianship workshops and teaching piano improvisation and singing. She teaches both in institutions for children and young people as well as at the university level.

Dr. Annika Mikołajko-Osman also actively participates as a speaker at scientific conferences and publishes scientific articles in the field of musical art.

In an effort to spread maritime culture, Annika published in 2017 a book Shanties and their musical-educational character among sailors in the era of great sailing ships. In her activities, she also strives to popularize the rhythm bones to which she has devoted a lot of musical projects and scientific articles.