Dr. Joanna Sobkowska graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin National Conservatory in Warsaw and earned a Master’s and a Doctoral Degree at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She has served on the faculties of Universidad del Cauca in Popayan, Columbia and Universidad del Valle, Cali, Columbia. She taught piano and performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician. Joanna has appeared with many prominent artists in a broad repertoire ranging from Baroque music to the premiers of new compositions. Joanna has performed on the concert series of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Poland, at the Festival Internacional del Piano in Bucaramanga, Columbia, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, the FSU Festival of New Music in Tallahassee, Florida, and CASMI International Summer Program in Prague, Czech Republic. She also was the solo pianist for a CD recording of Ladislav Kubik’s Concerto Breve for piano and orchestra with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Triptych on texts by Franz Kafka as well as the Sonata for Trombone and Piano with trombonist Jay Evans for the Col Legno-Qualiton label. Joanna is frequently featured with the Big Bend Community Orchestra of Tallahassee, Florida. Joanna is half of Duo Paloma with her husband, trumpeter Longineu Parsons and they perform frequently in the United States and in Paris, France. Currently, Dr. Sobkowska is Associate Professor of Music at Florida A&M University.