Demowska-Madejska, Aleksandra
A violist specialising in contemporary music, Doctor of musical arts, and codirector of the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space in Warsaw. A member of the Hashtag Ensemble creative group, whose work was honoured with the Coryphaeus of Polish Music award in the Event of the Year category in 2024, as well as a Society of Authors ZAiKS award.
As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at prestigious venues and festivals in Poland and Europe, including Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, Poznań Music Spring, Svatováclavský Hudební Festival, Meridian, Klangwerkstatt, Unerhörte Musik, as well as in Berkeley and Stanford. She has performed with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Sinfonia Iuventus, Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Gorzów Philharmonic, Radom Chamber Orchestra, and InterCamerata.
She has given more than 60 premieres of solo and chamber works, including works dedicated to her by Paweł Łukaszewski, Wojciech Błażejczyk, Weronika Ratusińska-Zamuszko, Artur Kroschel, and Dawid Pajdzik. She promotes the forgotten works of Witold Friemann and twentieth-century Polish-Jewish composers such as Eta Tyrmand, Jerzy Fitelberg, Ignacy Friedman, Karol Rathaus, and Mieczysław Weinberg. Since 2019 she has actively performed as a duo with pianist Wojciech Pyrć.
Her accolades at national and international competitions include the 1st Prize at the Witold Friemann Competition of Polish Music in Bydgoszcz, Grand Prize Virtuoso in Salzburg, and ISCART in Lugano. In 2023 an album featuring her playing received the Fryderyk Award in the Contemporary Music category.
She has recorded 15 albums for renowned labels (Kairos, Orphée Classics, DUX, Requiem Records/Opus Series, Chopin University Press, PGM Audio), including world premiere recordings of Witold Friemann’s Songs and Eta Tyrmand’s Sonata. Since 2019 she has also worked as a producer and curator of events and artistic projects, and is the originator of the Akademia PRO Hashtag Ensemble educational programme.
She has given lectures and masterclasses notably in Phnom Penh (2016) and Radziejowice (2019). From 2022 to 2025 she was a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Łódź.
She has been honoured with the Badge of Merit for Polish Culture (2020) and the Gold Badge of SPAM (2022). She has received multiple grants from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Society of Authors ZAIKS. She is President of the New Music Guild, Secretary of the Board of the Association of Polish Musicians, Vice-President of the Mieczysław Weinberg Institute, and a member of the board of the Sphere of Harmony Foundation, which oversees the Hashtag Lab Social Cultural Institution, as well as a member of the ThinkThankYou expert group.