The Calisia Arts foundation was established on the initiative of artists, educators and cultural animators associated with Kalisz. Its aim is to promote classical music and expand the cultural offer of Kalisz and Greater Poland by organising artistic events of national and international scope. The Calisia Arts foundation is based in Kalisz, the oldest Polish city, which is known for the Calisia grand and upright piano factory. Kalisz is also famous for one of the few schools in the world which educates grand and upright piano builders, renovators and tuners, the Arnold Fibiger Piano Building School, so naturally the promotion of piano music is a key aspect of the Foundation’s activities.

Katarzyna Piątkowska-Pinczewska – Doctor of Humanities, MBA ZSW UAM UEP, music theorist, musicologist, and education manager. A native of Kalisz, she is a graduate of Adam Asnyk High School No. 1 and the Henryk Melcer State Music School of the 1st and 2nd degree. She completed her studies with distinction at the Faculty of Composition, Music Theory, and Conducting at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. Since 1991, she has been working at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts in Kalisz. For many years, she served as Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Education and was a member of the University Senate for four terms. From 2007 to 2012, she was the Director of the Henryk Melcer State Music School in Kalisz. Katarzyna Piątkowska-Pinczewska is actively engaged in academic research – she presents papers at scientific conferences in Poland and abroad, has published dozens of articles in academic journals and volumes, and is the author of encyclopedia entries as well as the first monograph in the history of Polish music on H. Melcer (a native of Kalisz), titled “Henryk Melcer–Szczawiński. Life and Work.” She has supervised dozens of bachelor's and master’s theses in the field of music. She also teaches at the University of the Third Age “Calisia.” A significant part of her work involves the organization and promotion of music, especially Polish music. For many years, she has been organizing organ and chamber music concerts in Kalisz and the Southern Greater Poland region. She prepares and gives lectures accompanying these concerts. She is a co-founder of the Kaliskie Forum Organowe – the International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music – and the Viva Calisia International Vocal Competition. She cooperates with the Warsaw-based Foundation “Ave” in promoting the work and legacy of Henryk Melcer. She has also collaborated with the piano duo Joanna Kaczmarska-Bieżyńska and Robert Adamczak as a concert presenter. She is a Board Member and Secretary of the Stowarzyszenie „Wszystko dla Kalisza” im. prof. Jerzego Rubińskiego (“All for Kalisz” Association named after Prof. Jerzy Rubiński), co-founder of the Fundacja Ewy Iżykowskiej „Arte Eva” (Ewa Iżykowska “Arte Eva” Foundation), co-founder of the Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Wydziału Pedagogiczno-Artystycznego UAM „Artem Docendi” (“Artem Docendi” Association for the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University), and co-founder of the Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Państwowej Szkoły Muzycznej I i II st. w Kaliszu „Tryton” (“Tryton” Association for the State Music School in Kalisz). Since April 2021, she has been a member of the Kalisz Women’s Council, currently serving as its Vice-Chair. She has been awarded the Medal of the National Education Commission, the Medal “For Merits to the Greater Poland Voivodeship,” and the Gold Medal for Long Service.

Filip Pinczewski is a pianist, composer, and teacher, born in Kalisz in 1993. He graduated from the Jadwiga Kaliszewska General Music School in Poznań, where he studied piano with Prof. Waldemar Andrzejewski, and from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he studied piano with Prof. Manfred Wagner-Artzt as well as composition and music theory.

As a pianist, he performs as a soloist and chamber musician, with a particular interest in contemporary music. He has given concerts and had his works performed in many European countries, including Poland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Malta, Latvia, Hungary, and Switzerland. His performing activity combines the classical solo and chamber piano repertoire with contemporary music and includes world premieres. As a performer of contemporary music, he has appeared at the Wien Modern festival and the Mauricio Kagel International Composition Competition in Vienna.

He combines his artistic career with teaching and academic work. He is a piano teacher and accompanist at the Regionalmusikschule Kreuzenstein and a lecturer and doctoral candidate at the Department of Music Education Research and Practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

He is a co-founder of the Calisia Arts Foundation and co-initiator of the concert series Let's Open Up to New Music and Student Musical Quarters. A prizewinner at piano and composition competitions, he is also a two-time scholarship holder of the Piotr Kler Foundation, whose support enabled him to record a solo album devoted to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.