Zemla, Agata International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Born in 1994 in Rybnik, Polish composer, performer, and biologist working at the intersection of contemporary and electroacoustic music and scientific research, particularly in the fields  of biology, ecology, and psychoacoustics. Her artistic practice is  interdisciplinary and research-oriented, focusing on the relationships between sound, the environment, and perception.

In 2024, she graduated with honours from the Karol Lipiński  Academy of Music in Wrocław, earning a Master’s degree in composition under Cezary Duchnowski and a Bachelor’s degree in  music theory under Aleksandra Pijarowska. Her undergraduate  thesis in music theory explored trance in the context of psychoacoustics and somatic psychology. From 2013 to 2016, she studied  biology at the University of Wrocław. In 2024–25, she pursued  studies in acousmatic composition in Vienna under the guidance  of Annette Vande Gorne. In 2025, she completed a course in film  music composition at the National Film and Television School in  the United Kingdom.

Her works have been performed by contemporary music ensembles including Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, NeoQuartet, Kompopolex,  and Sinfonietta Cracovia. Her compositions have been presented  at contemporary and interdisciplinary music festivals in Poland  and abroad, including the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Sacrum  Profanum, Musica Electronica Nova, Musica Polonica Nova,  the Festival of Premieres, Survival Art Review, Art Media Biennale Reverso, Il Suono Contemporary Music Week, Kunstfestival  Begehungen, Klang, and World Music Days.

She also creates interdisciplinary projects combining music,  visual arts, and performance. Together with visual artist Aleksandra Trojanowska, she cofounded the duo Anabioses. She is  also a composer of theatre music and has cooperated with theatre directors including Gosia Wdowik, Martyna Majewska, Zofia  Gustowska, and Marcin Miętus. Her projects have been commissioned by institutions such as the Wrocław Pantomime Theatre,  Neumarkt Theatre in Zurich, Komuna Warszawa, and the Helena  Modrzejewska Theatre in Legnica.

In 2024, the National Museum in Warsaw released the vinyl  album Naturacea, featuring her work What Field Whispers, commissioned for the exhibition devoted to the art of Józef Cheł moński. In the same year, she received a scholarship from the Mayor  of Wrocław to compose a new work, Greenscreen, for NeoQuartet.

She is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union, the Polish Society for Contemporary Music, and the Association of Polish Musicians. Her album featuring the music for the theatre production  Anxiety Comes at Dusk was nominated for the Wrocław Artistic  Award.

Selected works: des creatures invisibles for instrumental ensemble (2022), To bee or not to bee for flute, clarinet, viola, cello and  live electronics (2022), Chamaedorea Elegans for piano (2023),  kalokagathia, multisensory installation using sound and textile art  (2023), Kagathosfor flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet,  multisensory object and live electronics (2024), to the last petal,  multimedia installation for multichannel projection and object  (2024), Follow Him Through the Valley for electric quartet and  live electronics (2024), WATER IS A LUXURY GOOD for two  pianos (2024), what the field whispers for string orchestra, sensory painting and live electronics (2024), apomorphic for audio  playback, 8-channel sound system and video (2024), Solitude for  viola and fixed media (2024), double bind for percussion and electronics (2025), coup de grâce for trumpet, accordion, cello and  live electronics (2025), Greenscreen for string quartet, video  and electronics, dragonflies & monsters for piano, electronics and  two performers (2026).