kamila marcinkowska-prasad, bassoon

Selected as an English Concert American Fellow in 2016

Kamila Marcinkowska-Prasad, a graduate of Juilliard’s Historical Performance program, performs historical music on period instruments including the dulzian and baroque and classical bassoons. She also performs occasionally on the recorder. She completed her Bachelors degree at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in 2006 and has since enjoyed an active career performing in orchestras and chamber groups in Europe, including Warsaw Chamber Opera, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Capella Cracoviensis, Ensemble Cristofori, and Enghave Barok in Copenhagen. She is featured on recordings for the groups Les Muffati, Arte Dei Suonatori, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inegal, Gabrielli Consort and Players, Collegium 1704, and the Copenhagen Soloists.

Throughout her career in Europe she has performed under such well-known conductors as Paul Mc Creesh, Peter Van Heyghen, Alfredo Bernadini, Jaap Ter Linden, and Vincent Dumestre. While at Juilliard she performed with William Christie, Jordi Savall, Masaki Suzuki, Richard Eggar, Robert Mealy, and Monica Hugget.