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Composers

Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska

*1989

Polish composer writing solo, chamber, vocal, orchestral, and theatre music. She studied composition in Torun’s school of music from an early age. Following graduation with honors from the Paderewski Academy of Music, Poznań, Poland (Zbigniew Kozub's composition class), in 2014 Fabiańska-Jelińska completed postgraduate composition studies at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna under the guidance of Reinhard Karger. She achieved her PhD in composition at the Paderewski Academy of Music, Poznań, Poland (2016) and in 2023, she received the habilitation degree.

She has won numerously national and international competitions for composers, including International Composers Competition at the Oklahoma City University (Oklahoma City, United States, 2010), the European Young Composers Competition Gramodeska (Prague, Czech Republic 2011), the Ochlewski Nationwide Composition Contest organised by the PWM Edition (Cracow, Poland 2011, 2015), Marathon V – Festival for young contemporary music (Vienna, Austria, 2013), the Mycielski Nationwide Composition Contest staged by the Polish Composers Union (Warsaw, Poland 2013, 2014), XIV. International Forum Music of Youth (Kiev, 2016), International Composers Competition Artistes en Herbe in Luxembourg (2017), First Accordion Composition Competition FIDELIO (Madrid, Spain 2017), 4th Opus Dissonus Composition Competition (Brazil, 2018), International Composers Competition KALEIDOSCOPE (Los Angeles, United States, 2019), International Composers Competition Subtle Cheetah (New York, United States, 2019), International Composition Competition NEW VISION (New York, United States, 2020), International Call for Score Musica Prospettiva (Italy, 2020-2021), IX International Competition Smederevo (Serbia, 2022), Classic Pure Vienna International Music Competition (Vienna, 2022),Gold Medal during the Muzyczne Orły International Competition (Poland, 2023), „Outstanding Creativity Special Prize” and „Diamond Prize” during the „World Artistry Music Award” (2025).

Her works are performed very often in Poland and abroad during prestigious international festivals and concerts of contemporary music in Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Norway, Majorca, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, Iceland, Hungary, Switzerland, Romania, Kosovo), in Asia (Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam), the United States (New York, California, Oklahoma City, New Mexico, Kansas, New Jersey, Sacramento, Virginia), South America (Brazil) and Australia (Sydney).

In spring 2016, during the International New Music Days in Tongyeong, South Korea, organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music her Three Polish Dances for brass quintet has been performed. Her piece Bagatela was also selected for performance at the International New Music Days in Romania (2026). In 2018, her piece Meditation III was selected from over 1,000 compositions to be performed as part of the SCI Conference at the University of New Mexico (United States). In recent years, compositions by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska have been presented during: Festival of World Premieres (NOSPR, Katowice, Poland), Musica Polonica Nova (Wrocław, Poland), LOOP 11 in Belgium, Eesti Muusika Päevad in Estonia, Tehran Contemporary Music Festival in Iran, the International Trombone Festival IPV in Basel, Mozarthaus in Vienna, Berlin Philharmonic and Sydney Opera House.

In 2017/2018 Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska was Composer-in-Residence of the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Society and two-time winner of Program Music of Our Time under the patronage of organized by The Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice (2017, 2018).

She conducts composition workshops at contemporary music festivals such as Poznań Musical Spring International Festival of Contemporary Music and the IVENTI Academy international. She also participates in numerous creative projects of an educational nature and serves on the juries of prestigious composition competitions (including the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers, the OPUS International Music Competition, and the Dark Side of Art Inter-university Composition Competition at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz). Fabiańska-Jelińska also composes works for young artists, including commissions for prestigious music competitions (such as IPV Competition, the J. Rakowski National Viola Competition and the K. Kurpiński National Competition for Young Musicians).

Her compositions have been performed for example by Sac State Trombone Ensemble (US), the New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble (US), Subtle Cheetah (US), The Oklahoma State University Trombone Ensemble (US), SzegEd Trombone Ensemble (Hungary), Prague Modern (the Czech Republic), United Instruments of Lucilin (Luxembourg), TrombQuartet, Duo Wolańska/Gajda, Sepia Ensemble, Polish Violin Duo, Silesian Quartet, NeoQuartet; NFM Choir National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Poznań Nightingales, Orchestra of Poznań Philharmonic, Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestra, Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Sudeten Philharmonic, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Gedanensis, Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, The Zielona Góra Philharmonic, Lower Silesian Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Cracovia, as well as outstanding conductors – Agnieszka Duczmal, Łukasz Borowicz, Szymon Bywalec, Jakub Chrenowicz, Henry Kennedy, Paul McCreesh, Rafał Kłoczko, Radosław Droń, Miłosz Korpol, Marcin Sompoliński, Marek Prášil, Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak, Maciej Tomasiewicz, Maciej Wieloch, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Marek Gandecki, Monika Wolińska, Martyna Zych, Agata Zając.

Recordings of Fabiańska-Jelińska’s works are published by DUX, Acte Prélable, Crescendo Brass, DA VINCI Publishing and Norsk Musikforlag (Norway). In 2021, the first monographic album by composer Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska. Chamber Music was released (DUX 1684). For this album, the composer received a Bronze Medal at the prestigious Global Music Awards in California in two categories: composition/composer and emerging artist. The composer has also been nominated for the Fryderyk Music Award for her arrangement of Krzysztof Penderecki's Winterreise for trombone and symphony orchestra.

She received the honorary badge Merit for Polish Culture (2021) and is a member of the Polish Society of Contemporary Music and the Polish Composers Union. She also works at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music (Poznań, Poland) as an assistant professor.