Małgorzata Zwierzchowska is a London based violinist and violist. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Gosia pursues a busy career performing, teaching and engaging in outreach work across the UK. In 2022 she made a solo debut with London City Philharmonic in St John’s Smith’s Square and continues to perform regularly as a soloist and leader of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta. She’s an awardee of the Craxton Memorial Trust Award, Wolfe Wolfinson Prize and the Calleva Foundation Scholarship. Additionally, together with her chamber music partner Gabriel Bilbao Toledo, she’s been awarded prizes, such as the Harold Craxton Prize (2023) and the Historical Women Composer Prize (2022) and have performed recitals in the UK, Europe and Latin America. In 2025 she got awarded the prestigious ‘Young Poland’ Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Poland.

Gosia has performed in festivals and concert series across the UK, such as BBC Proms, Aldeburgh Festival, Spitalfields Festival, Presteigne Festival and Petworth Festival. Alongside being the leader of Brent Symphony Orchestra, Gosia performs with the Hallé Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra for the Earth, Fantasia Orchestra, the Outcry Ensemble and Aurora Orchestra and is the founding member of Kvadrat Trio. Interested in historical performance, she has also performed with Belsize Baroque, Baroque Collective and was part of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Experience Scheme.

Finally, Malgorzata is the founder of Music with No Borders – a winning project of ‘Davis’ Projects for Peace 2019’ and a conference promoting the idea of music being a universal language and a tool in building mutual understanding between people of different cultural backgrounds. In the academic year 2024/25 she fulfilled the role of the Open Academy Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. 

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