Associate Professor of Music
As the winner of the Student Baroque Competition, she received a scholarship to Venice and then the Rome Conservatorio “St. Cecilia”, where she studied under the maestros Vitale and Agosti. She emigrated to the United States in 1969, and went first to New York and then to California. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts with Leonid Hambro. At the University of Massachusetts she studiied with Fernande Kaeser, a student of the renowned Dinu Lipati. There she received her second master in Piano Perfromance & Pedagogy. She went to Maine in 1978 and, enchanted by the beauty of nature, she decided to make Maine her home state. Baycka holds a position of Associate Professor Piano at the University of Maine in Orono. Baycka began her public performances
at the age of 7 when she shared her love for dance and piano and performed
in both disciplines. When still in Europe her
performances included Poland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Spain and Morocco.
She has been featured with the Gdansk Philharmonic, performed on Radio
Italiano, as
well as on Spanish and Danish radios. In the United States her performances have included states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Vermont and her home state of Maine. In 1982 she performed Chopin’s Concerto in E Minor with The Bangor Symphony under the late maestro Werner Torkanowski. She also gave numerous solo and chamber recitals on the University Campus, as well as on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. She also performs in duo piano recitals with her University of Maine colleague and friend Kathryn Ann Foley. In Baycka’s career she tries to balance and share her love for teaching with equal love for piano playing. baycka.voronietsky@umit.maine.edu
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When in Poland, Baycka Voronietsky studied
in Gdansk Elemetary, High School and Conservatory of Music, “F.Chopin” Warsaw
Conservatory of Music, under the President of the Chopin International
Piano Competition, Zbigniew
Drzewiecki, and received her first masters degree in Performance.