Coloratura soprano, soloist, chamber musician, multi-instrumentalist, pedagogue, graduate of the Academy of Music in Cracow at the Faculty of Artistic Education and Rhythm and the Faculty of Vocal and Acting, graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice and postgraduate studies in Culture Management at Jagiellonian University.
In 2025 she defended her doctoral thesis at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow, which was devoted to vocal contemporary music from the borderline of instrumental theater.
She made her debut on the stage of the Kraków Philharmonic in Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Mélisande” conducted by Gabriel Chmura.
As a soprano, she primarily performs contemporary music. She has premiered numerous works by composers from around the world. Among others, she was a soloist in the world premiere of Michal Dorman’s “Dodi li va ‘ani lo”, Mariusz Kramarz’s “Little Mass” in G Major, Julia Schwartz’s “Lamento” for soprano, tenor saxophone, piano and conga, and Karol Osman’s “Hortus Nocti” for soprano and orchestra.
For more than 10 years, she has been conducting original musicianship workshops and teaching piano improvisation and singing. She teaches both in institutions for children and young people as well as at the university level.
Dr. Annika Mikołajko-Osman also actively participates as a speaker at scientific conferences and publishes scientific articles in the field of musical art.
In an effort to spread maritime culture, Annika published in 2017 a book “Shanties and their musical-educational character among sailors in the era of great sailing ships”.
In her activities, she also strives to popularize the rhythm bones to which she has devoted a lot of musical projects and scientific articles. She has played rhythm bones since 2012. She trained her skills using all available sources of books and films. From 2013 she was (as a rhythm bones player) a member of a shanty duo, which appeared at several editions of the International Sailing Song Festival “Shanties” in Krakow. She is also a member of “MozarTap & Bones” with which she performs as part of events promoting American tap dance with playing rhythm bones. Annika also premiered various pieces composed or arranged for rhythm bones by composers from all over the world. She also gives rhythm bones lectures and workshops.