Anna Sowa
Anna Sowa (*1987) was born in Tymbark, Poland. From 2006 to 2016, she studied at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, graduating with distinction in the Eurhythmics programme, where she studied under, among others, Prof. Szábolcs Esztényi and Prof. Elżbieta Aleksandrowicz (2011), and subsequently in the composition class of Prof. Zygmunt Krauze (2016).
In 2021, she graduated with distinction from the Master Special programme at the Musik Akademie in Basel, studying under Prof. Johannes Kreidler and Caspar Johannes Walter.
In 2019, she received the Witold Lutosławski Scholarship; in 2020 and 2021, she was awarded the prestigious Nicati de Luze Foundation Scholarship (Switzerland). In 2026, she received the Artis Grand scholarship awarded by the Landis & Gyr Foundation.
Her works have been presented at festivals including ECLAT (Stuttgart, Germany), Warsaw Autumn, Transit (Belgium), Musica Strasbourg (France), MA/IN Festival (Italy), the Biennale Aktuelle Musik in Bremen, MINU Festival (Denmark), Neue Musik Rümlingen, Transparent Sound Festival (Budapest), Nice International Music Festival and Academy (France), Festiwal Prawykonań, Sacrum Profanum, Ad Libitum, Musica Polonica Nova, NeoArte Syntezator Sztuki, Sinfonia Varsovia Swojemu Miastu (Experimental Tuesdays), Polifonie, Pergine Festival (Pergine Valsugana, Italy), Musica Privata, Dotknij Teatru, Fru Improvisation Contact Festival, C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr (Essen, Germany), BÉTON Brut & Bruits (Cologne, Germany), Bauhaus/Kurt Weill Festival (Dessau, Germany), São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival (Brazil), the XXV Accordion Music Festival in Przemyśl, the 5th Piotrków Art Biennale, and the Periferien concert series (Norway).
Anna Sowa’s works are regularly performed, primarily in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, as well as at university centres in Germany and Switzerland.
Website: www.annasowa.pl
In 2021, she graduated with distinction from the Master Special programme at the Musik Akademie in Basel, studying under Prof. Johannes Kreidler and Caspar Johannes Walter.
In 2019, she received the Witold Lutosławski Scholarship; in 2020 and 2021, she was awarded the prestigious Nicati de Luze Foundation Scholarship (Switzerland). In 2026, she received the Artis Grand scholarship awarded by the Landis & Gyr Foundation.
Her works have been presented at festivals including ECLAT (Stuttgart, Germany), Warsaw Autumn, Transit (Belgium), Musica Strasbourg (France), MA/IN Festival (Italy), the Biennale Aktuelle Musik in Bremen, MINU Festival (Denmark), Neue Musik Rümlingen, Transparent Sound Festival (Budapest), Nice International Music Festival and Academy (France), Festiwal Prawykonań, Sacrum Profanum, Ad Libitum, Musica Polonica Nova, NeoArte Syntezator Sztuki, Sinfonia Varsovia Swojemu Miastu (Experimental Tuesdays), Polifonie, Pergine Festival (Pergine Valsugana, Italy), Musica Privata, Dotknij Teatru, Fru Improvisation Contact Festival, C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr (Essen, Germany), BÉTON Brut & Bruits (Cologne, Germany), Bauhaus/Kurt Weill Festival (Dessau, Germany), São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival (Brazil), the XXV Accordion Music Festival in Przemyśl, the 5th Piotrków Art Biennale, and the Periferien concert series (Norway).
Anna Sowa’s works are regularly performed, primarily in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, as well as at university centres in Germany and Switzerland.
Website: www.annasowa.pl
