Anna Sowa

Anna Sowa (b. 1987, Tymbark, Poland) is a composer and musician. She graduated with distinction in eurhythmics from the Academy of Music in Łódź (2011) and completed her master's in composition there in the class of Zygmunt Krauze (2016). She continued her studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Dietrich Hahne (Erasmus+, 2014–2015), at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (2017–2018) and in the Master Special Program at the Musik-Akademie Basel with Caspar Johannes Walter and Johannes Kreidler. She has taken part in composition courses with Simon Steen-Andersen, Philippe Manoury, Martijn Padding, Chen Yi and Mark Andre, among others, and in The Next Generation at the Donaueschingen Musiktage (2015).

Her works have been performed at festivals and venues including Musica Privata in Łódź, ChampdAction in Antwerp, C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr in Essen, the BÉTON Brut & Bruits series in Cologne, the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, Pergine Festival in Italy, the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival and Gare du Nord in Basel. She has written music for dance and theatre and created the sound installation Dwelling with visual artist Xiaole Zhang at Künstlerstadt Kalbe. She has received scholarships from KAAD Bonn (2015), Künstlerstadt Kalbe (2017) and the Chinese government (2017–2018), and the Witold Lutosławski scholarship (2019), and she is a member of the International Alliance for Women in Music. From 2011 to 2017 she taught at the music school complex in Radom and lectured in piano improvisation at the Academy of Music in Łódź.