Piórkowska, Marta
Violinist, chamber musician and teacher, she performs both classical and contemporary music. Since 2016 she has been a member of the Hashtag Ensemble, one of the leading new music ensembles in Poland. Jagoda Szmytka and Wojciech Błażejczyk have dedicated works to her.
She has performed at many venues in Poland and internationally. As a soloist and chamber musician she has appeared at festivals including Warsaw Autumn, Ad Libitum, Musica Polonica Nova, Warsaw Musical Meetings, Summer Musical Gardens, WarszeMuzik, #AżTak Festiwal, Tête à Tête Opera Festival in London, Intersonanzen Festival in Potsdam, Sacrum Profanum, KODY, Opera Rara, Weimarer Frühjahrstage, and International MERIDIAN Festival in Romania. Since 2022 she has been active in the Hashtag Ensemble Creative Group and codirects the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space.
Education is an important area of her work. For the past four years she has run her own programme, Hashtag Ensemble Young Academy, introducing young musicians to contemporary music and improvisation, and since 2013 she has taught a violin class at the Karol Szymanowski Complex of State Music Schools in Warsaw. She is a recipient of the Fryderyk 2024 Award in the Chamber Music Album of the Year category.