Born in Tymbark, Poland in 1987, she studied eurhythmics with Szábolcs Esztényi and Elżbieta Aleksandrowicz (honours degree in 2011) as well as composition with Zygmunt Krauze (2016) at the Bacewicz University of Music in Łódź. In 2014–15 she was an Erasmus+ student and later a KAAD scholarship holder at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, studying composition and visualisation with Dietrich Hahne. In 2017–18 she received a Chinese governmental scholarship to study at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2021 she graduated with distinction from Johannes Kreidler and Caspar Johannes Walter’s Master Special Programme at the Music Academy in Basel. Her other educational accolades include the Witold Lutosławski Scholarship (2019) and the prestigious Nicati-de Luze Foundation Scholarship (2020, 2021).
Her works have frequently been performed in Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Israel, at German and Swiss academic centres, as well as festivals such as ECLAT, Warsaw Autumn, Transit, Biennale Aktuelle Musik in Bremen, MINU, Festival of Premieres – Polish Modern Music, Sacrum Profanum, Ad Libitum, Musica Polonica Nova, NeoArte Synthesiser of Arts, Sinfonia Varsovia to Its City, Polyphonies, Pergine, Musica Privata, Touch the Theatre, Fru Improvisation Contact Festival, C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr, BÉTON Brut & Bruits, Bauhaus/Kurt Weill Festival, São Paulo Contemporary Composers, 25th International Festival of Accordion Music in Przemyśl, and the 5th Piotrków Art Biennale.
2020 saw the premiere of Sowa’s instrumental theatre It’s Only the End of the World at Theater Basel (part of the Im Flow der Apokalypse project, followed in 2022 by the premiere of Leiber. Eine Nichtkammer Oper at Bruchwerk Theater Siegen. In 2021, she won (jointly with contemporary arts space Anomalia) the 3rd OPER.A 20.21 FRINGE Competition of Orchester Haydn Stiftung von Bozen und Trient. Theaward was a premiere of her opera Silenzio/Silence at the Opera Festival in Bolzano (March 2022). In January 2023 her Diversions for orchestra, electronics and the kinetic sculpture Grosse Méta-Maxi-Maxi-Utopia by Jean Tinguely, commissioned by Basel Sinfonietta, was premiered at the Museum Tinguely. BLAP for orchestra, commissioned by the Göttinger Symphonieorchester and composed in 2023, was presented at the reopening of City Hall in Göttingen in January 2024.
In 2011–17 Sowa was a teacher at the Oskar Kolberg Music School Complex in Radom, and in 2016–17 she led piano improvisation classes at the Bacewicz University of Music in Łódź (Chair of Eurythmics and Piano Improvisation).
Selected works: Seh, do, yek…! for violin, accordion and electronics (2018), Lass mich heraus! for trombone quartet (2018), Concerto for accordion duo and chamber orchestra (2018), String Quartet (2019), smar for soprano saxophone, double bass and electronics (2019), Étouffefor violin, accordion and electronics (2019), Setz Dich bitte hin for instrumental ensemble (2019), Message for the Year of the Metal Rat II fortwo violins, accordion, piano, percussion and electronics (2020), Piece for Violin and Saxophone Player (2020), Faster for ensemble and electronics (2020), smar II for double bass, electric guitar and electronics (2021), With the Family One Looks Best in Photos for percussion and electronics (2021), Reed Interlude for oboe, electronics and video (2021), pocket opera Silenzio for seven performers and electronics (2021–22), Dance ex machina for pianist, dancer and electronics (2022), Leiber. Eine Nichtkammeroper, instrumental theatre for three performers and electronics (2022), Minimum Movement for harpsichord, violin and electronics (2022), The Polish Chair for electronic quartet, electronics and video (2022), Diversions for orchestra, electronics and the kinetic sculpture Grosse Méta-Maxi-Maxi-Utopia by Jean Tinguely (2022),Nach dem Foto feiern wir weiter! for ensemble and electronics (2023), BLAP for orchestra (2023), cognition, instrumental theatre (2023–24), Rebirth for flute-playing performance artist (2023–24), Lubricant for amplified bass flute and percussion (2024), Friction of the Wooden Dragon for ensemble and electronics (2024), minimalANIMAL II for accordion reed ranks and electronics (2025).