Composer
Justyna Kowalska-Lasoń
1 performance · edition 2019
Performance
Biography
Composer, flautist, pianist and improviser. She was born in 1985 in Katowice. She graduated with honours in composition from the class of Professor Aleksander Lasoń at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Since 2011, she has been teaching at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. In 2015, she was awarded a Doctor of Arts degree in composition (Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw: Marcin Błażewicz – supervisor).
She is a full member of the Polish Composers’ Union and the ZAIKS Authors’ Association. Since 2009, she has been publishing her works with the Polish Music Publishing House. She has received numerous grants, including from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Marshal’s Office of the Silesian Voivodeship.
For her creative achievements, she has received a number of awards and artistic grants, including: the presentation of a composition at the 57th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Lisbon; a nomination for the prestigious OPUS 2009 Public Media Award (the edition was not decided); first prize in the A. Malawski Composition Competition in Rzeszów; first prize on two occasions at the Feliks Nowowiejski International Composition Competition in Olsztyn; first prize in the 5th National Composition Competition for Choral Passion Songs in Bydgoszcz; and others.
Justyna Kowalska-Lasoń’s works have been performed at many major festivals and concerts both in Poland and abroad.
The composer also creates computer graphics, which are exhibited at her own solo exhibitions.
In July 2012, the album Śpiewam Nowoczesnego Człowieka was released, featuring the composer’s music performed by Poland’s most distinguished orchestras and chamber ensembles (the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michał Klauza and José Maria Florêncio, AUKSO conducted by Marek Mosia, the Silesian Philharmonic Choir conducted by Jarosław Wolanin, and the LASON Ensemble).
She was featured, alongside 11 other Polish composers, in the „New Generation” calendar – New Generation of Polish Composers, published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, alongside, amongst others, Marcel Chyrzyński, Mikołaj Górecki, Paweł Łukaszewski, Paweł Mykietyn, Aleksander Nowak, Wojciech Widłak and Agata Zubel.
Source: pwm.com.pl · Photo: Magdalena Hueckel © IMiT
