About me

Marta Kowalczuk (*1998 in Wrocław) is a composer and Baroque violinist. Her music unfolds through layered textures and shifting states, characterized by fragmentary structures, theatrical gestures, and sonic permeability. Her work encompasses instrumental, vocal, and choral music, film music, music theatre, and opera. Informed by her engagement with historical performance practice, she brings elements of Baroque sound worlds and modes of musical thought into dialogue with contemporary compositional approaches.

Her works have been performed by, among others, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Garage, Zafraan Ensemble, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiel, under the direction of conductors including Kent Nagano, Holly Hyun Choe, and Dennis Russell Davies. Performances have taken place at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, as well as at festivals across Europe, the United States, and South Korea.

Her accolades include the German Film Music Award (2022) and the ad libitum Composition Prize of the Winfried Böhler Foundation (2024/2025). She was an artist-in-residence at Künstlerhof Schreyahn in 2022/23.