As an accomplished violinist, chamber musician, and professor at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, Oriana Masternak is an award-winning interpreter and researcher of Polish music, both forgotten and new.

She regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician in Asia, the Americas, and Europe, presenting a versatile repertoire of masterpieces from all eras and premieres of works dedicated to her. As critics have noted, her playing is characterized by “beautiful sound, extremely rich timbres, flawless intonation, and natural phrasing.”

Since 2014, Oriana has been a member of the Messages Quartet, an ensemble specializing in the performance of Polish chamber music. She has an extensive phonographic output encompassing more than 15 albums. In 2014, the publishing house of the Academy of Music in Kraków released the artist’s debut album with works for violin and piano by Lucien Durosoir (with pianist Sławomir Cierpik), and in 2017, the album Philipp Scharwenka. Music for violin and piano was published by the Acte Préalable publishing house (with pianist Sławomir Cierpik). Oriana has also recorded for the DUX Publishing House (S. Laks’ Complete String Quartets performed by the Messages Quartet and the album Messages), SOLITON, and the FCUM Publishing House. In 2021, two albums were released by the DUX publishing house: Parallels (with pianist Justyna Danczowska) and Bacewicz/Tansman – Piano Quintets (Julia Kociuban and Messages Quartet) nominated for the Phonographic Academy Fryderyk awards. In 2023, an album containing Polish clarinet quintets (DUX, Piotr Lato and Messages Quartet) was released.

In 2022, together with Julia Kociuban and the Messages Quartet, she received the main award of the 2nd “Muzyczne Orły” International Competition in the Chamber Ensemble category. In 2023, with the quartet, she was nominated for the Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej award in the Personality of the Year category. She was also awarded the Badge of Honour “Merit for Polish Culture”, which is awarded to people with exceptional merits in the creation, dissemination and protection of culture. In 2024, she won the “Muzyczne Orły” competition again.

Since 2024, Oriana Masternak has been the Head of the Violin and Viola Department at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, where she teaches her violin class. In 2024, she received a prestigious research grant in the National Science Centre’s Sonata Bis programme. The artist plays Sebastian Lang’s instrument from 1788.