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Karolina Naziemiec is a Polish violist who has been training, teaching and performing in the United States since 2000. She was granted an artistic visa on the recommendation of the American Federation ofMusicians, who cited her as being “a violist of extraordinary ability.” Born in Jedrzejow, Poland, Ms. Naziemiec grew up surrounded by music — the daughter of engineers and amateur musicians — to become the first professional musician in her family. She attended the Szymnowski Music High school in Katowice, then continued her education at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where she studied with Professor M. Marczyk , viola soloist with the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. She received her masters degree in Music Arts/Viola Performance from the Chopin Academy in 2000. Her masters thesis, Two Faces of Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Viola — a musical analysis of the differences between two versions of Bartok’s viola concerto —was published by the Hungarian Institute in Warsaw that same year. In Europe, Ms. Naziemiec toured with the Chopin Academy’s Chamber Orchestra in France and Belgium. She also toured Japan with the Chopin’s Ladies Strings Orchestra. She received scholarships to attend the International Music Course in Marktoberdorf, Germany; the Verbier Festival and Academy in Switzerland; the International Youth Orchestra’s Spring Festival in Germany; and the Aberdeen International Youth Festival in Scotland, where she was a student of Michael Beeston (member of the Edinbur