Anna Paliwoda was born in Katowice in Poland in 1992. She began her musical studies at the age of seven at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, continuing at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, also in Poland. Between 2013 and 2017, she studied violin under Professor Marco Rizzi and viola under professor Diemut Poppen at the Reina Sofía School of Music. She has attended masterclasses by Vadim Gluzman, Nils Mönkemeyer, Günter Pichler and Mauricio Fuks, and has won prizes for violin in various competitions: Bohdan Warchal International Strings Competition (Dolný Kubín, Slovakia), Sochaczew Violin Competition (Poland), and 2nd Tadeusz Wronski Young Violinists Competition (solo violin, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland). In 2012, she was also a finalist at the 9th Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition (Fermo, Italy). She has been a member of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez, Zubin Mehta, Pablo Heras-Casado and Stefan Lano; Freixenet Chamber Orchestra, conducted by András Schiff and Eldar Nebolsin; and Camerata Viesgo, conducted by Gordan Nikolic and Peter Eötvös. She has also been a member of the Cuarteto Mendelssohn and the Cuarteto Óscar Esplá de Asisa. In 2016, she completed a bachelor’s degree at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and in 2017 joined the first violins of the Basque National Orchestra in San Sebastián. She has participated regularly in the Festival Cantabile, presenting chamber music concerts beside soloists such as Diemut Poppen, Ivan Monigetti and Christel Lee. She has lived in Lisbon since 2018, is studying at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, under Professor Ana Beatriz Manzanilla, and is leader of the second violins of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. In 2019, she won the Concurso de Interpretação do Estoril.