Dr. Szklarska earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music from the University of Miami, where she studied with Dr. Paul Posnak and Dr. J. B. Floyd. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on chamber works of the Polish composer, Henryk MikoÅaj Górecki.
A native of Poland, Dr. Szklarska received her piano diploma in the area of Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the prestigious Frederic Chopin Conservatory of Music in Warsaw, Poland. Her pianistic profile was influenced by the outstanding Polish pedagogue and concert pianist Halina Czerny-StefaÅska. In 1990, she received a music scholarship from the Polish-American KoÅciuszko Foundation in New York City to study in the United States. She studied piano with well-known concert pianist Jerome Rose at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She holds her Master of Music Degree in Piano Accompanying and Literature from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Dr. Szklarska served as a faculty member at Broward Community College in Davie.
Szklarska is also an accomplished organist. Her interest in organ began at Bowling Green State University at studio of Dr. Vernon Volcott. She continued studies at University of Notre Dame with Dr. Craig Cramer and she completed her interest with the organ performance degree at Florida International University. She subsequently worked under guidance of international artists as Olivier Latry, Jean-Baptiste Robin and Jon Laukvik.
