Residency scholarship for HfMT composition student

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Marta Kowalczuk from Prof. Gordon Kampe's composition class receives a scholarship from Künstlerhof Schreyahn

Since its foundation in 1979, the Künstlerhof Schreyahn in Lower Saxony has offered writers and composers 3, 6 or 9-month scholarships.

Künstlerhof Schreyahn is located in the round village of Schreyahn, southwest of the district town of Lüchow. The first authors moved into the main house in 1981 and the musicians moved into the completed outbuildings in 1983. In the main house, which is a Low German hall house, a suitably furnished "Diele" is available as a cultural center for readings and concerts. An extension was built in 1992, which houses studios for writers. The "Förderverein für die niedersächsische Stipendiatenstätte Künstlerhof Schreyahn" has been in existence since 2001.

Vita
Marta Kowalczuk (1998) was born in Wrocław (Poland). She began studying composition with Prof. Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil in 2016. At the age of 19, she received a scholarship abroad (Erasmus+, Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar). After the Erasmus scholarship, she decided to return to Weimar as a regular student. From 2019 to 2021, Marta studied composition at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar with Prof. Michael Obst (BA). Since October 2021, she has been studying at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (MA) with Prof. Gordon Kampe.
From 2016 to 2019, Marta Kowalczuk studied baroque violin with Zbigniew Pilch (PhD) at the Karol Lipiński University of Music Wrocław.
Marta Kowalczuk actively participates in musical life in Germany and abroad. She works with renowned orchestras, ensembles and musicians, including Multimediales Improvisationsensemble Thüringen, Staatskapelle Weimar, I SOLISTI - Belgian wind ensemble Antwerp, Ensemble via nova, Radius Ensemble, Juventas New Music Ensemble, MDR-Sinfonieorchester.
She has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships - e.g. International Composition Competition 2017 iMelody (Plano, USA), 4th National Composer Competition Piotr Perkowski in Toruń (2018, Poland), Frost School of Music Ensemble Ibis Competition (2021, Miami USA). She received a residency scholarship at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn for 2022/2023.
2020-2021 she was deputy chairwoman of the board of via nova e.V.
At the end of 2020, Marta Kowalczuk founded the "Generation Future" working group at the German Composers' Association together with composer Romeo Wecks.