Especially impressive was Peszko’ s playing - precise, focused, and at the same time light and determined.

Agnieszka Lakner, Ruch Muzyczny #6 2019 

Dominika Peszko (born 19.11.1988 in Rzeszow, Poland) – the pianist, chamber musician and teacher. Doctor of Musical Arts. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow in the piano class of Andrzej Pikul and under his guidance she got her PhD in 2017. She perfected her skills during the masterclasses with acclaimed pianists: Paul Badura-Skoda, Kevin Kenner, Boris Berman, Dina Yoffe and others. In 2015-2018 she has been a participant of the Young Talents Development Programme – Opera Academy at the National Opera-Grand Theater in Warsaw, where she has taken part in masterclasses of Helmut Deutsch, Eytan Pessen, Matthias Rexroth, Neil Shicoff, Edith Wiens, Tobias Truniger and Paul Plummer. 

As a soloist, she has performed with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Lublin Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of the Krakow Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of the Opole Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of the Rzeszow Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of Tadeusz Baird Philharmonic in Zielona Gora, and others. She has collaborated with conductors such as Paweł Przytocki, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Wojciech Rodek, Rafał Kloczko and Sebastian Perłowski among others.

Dominika Peszko received the scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland (2009, 2019) and the prestigious Ars Quaerendi Prize (together with her Master, Małgorzata Walewska). 

She is a winner of solo and chamber music competitions in Poland and abroad:

• I prize – chamber music category –  V Concorso Musicale Europeo Città di Filadelfia Premio Speciale "Paolo Serrao", Filadelfia, Italy (2013)
• III prize – solo piano category –  IV Concorso Musicale Europeo Città di Filadelfia Premio Speciale "Paolo Serrao", Filadelfia, Italy (2012)
• II prize – chamber music category – IV Concorso Musicale Europeo Città di Filadelfia Premio Speciale "Paolo Serrao", Filadelfia, Italy (2012)
• Golden Award – chamber music category – International Competition and Festival for Soloists and Chamber Music Groups, Štanjel, Slovenia (2012)
• II prize –  II Halina and Ludwik Stefański Chopin Piano Tournament, Kraków, Poland (2011)
• The Tadeusz Żmudziński – XIV Academic Tadeusz Żmudziński Piano Competition, Kraków, Poland (2007)

She has also received many awards for an outstanding pianist during vocal competitions:

• 19. Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition, Nowy Sącz, Poland (2021)
• IV International Vocal Competition, Rivne, Ukraine (2021)
• "Excellence in Piano Accompaniment" diploma – Michael Stricharz Foundation IV Competition for Young Opera Singers, Lviv, Ukraine (2019)
• special prize for an outstanding pianist of the VIII National Zdzisław Skwara Vocal Competition, Mława, Poland (2019)
• XIX. International Imrich Godin Vocal Competition Iuventus Canti, Vráble, Słowacja (2017)

In 2019 she made the premiere recording of Kazimierz Lubomirski's complete works. The four-disc album contains all the composer's piano works (35) and all of the art songs (35), recorded together with Małgorzata Walewska – mezzo , Andrzej Lampert – tenor, Hasmik Sahakyan – soprano and Paweł Trojak – baritone. 

In 2020, an album of songs by Emanuel Kania was released by the DUX label (DUX 7603), recorded together with the bass-baritone Dawid Biwo. 

She has premiered numerous new, experimental music, often with the use of multimedia tools and is a member of the "Muzyka Centrum" Artistic Association of performers of contemporary music.

With the beginning of the corona pandemic Dominika Peszko started to study the monumental cycle of Olivier Messiaen Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus, which she performed in April 2022 during the 34. Krakow International Festival of Composers. She is the third performer of this cycle in Poland (after Eugeniusz Knapik and Jerzy Godziszewski) and the first Polish female pianist to take up this challenge. 

As a chamber musician, Dominika Peszko performed in numerous European countries and in Republic of South Africa. She particularly favours vocal lyric and collaborating with singers in the capacity of their tutor-coach. Working alongside vocalists entails both performing on stage and accompanying the singers in domestic and overseas competitions. In 2013 Dominika started work at the Faculty Vocal Performance and Acting at The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow.