Performers
Harpist, graduate of the Krakow Academy of Music (class of Bogumiła Lutak-Modrinić) and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (where she studied with Ursula Holliger), participant of many international courses in harp performance. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Freiburger Kammerorchester, the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Johanniskantorei Frankfurt-Bornheim, Bielsko Chamber Orchestra, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Gorzów Philharmonic, Krakow Chamber Orchestra, and the Georg Philipp Telemann Baroque Ensemble.
Flutist, soloist and chamber musician. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz University of Music in Łódź. Her accolades include the Polityka’s Passport Award for classical music, EMC Fellow in 2022–2024 (programme of the European Music Council), multiple scholarships from the City of Warsaw, as well as prizes in national and international music competitions. Several dozen composers have written their works specifically for her. She is also the founder of Hashtag Ensemble.
She studied under the German occupation with Stanisław Kazuro at the underground Warsaw Conservatory. She continued her voice education with Adam Didur, Stefan Belina-Skupiewski, and Józef Woliński.
She graduated in Music Theory and Choral Conducting (MA) as well as Church Music (BA) from the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. She also completed the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort. She has held scholarships from the City of Gdańsk and the Dutch government (Huygens Scholarship Programme).
Agata Kielar-Długosz is a Polish flutist, a graduate of soloist studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich as well as postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, and the Yale University in New Haven (USA). She has won prizes in Polish and international flute competitions.
Twenty-four musicians from ten different countries (Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Italy) work together, guided by the idea of restoring music to its rightful place in contemporary society.
A composer, electronic artist, and professor of the musical arts, Knittel has created orchestral, choral and chamber works, operatic and ballet music, sound installations, numerous computer pieces (which he has both composed and performed) as well as "live electronics". The artist’s discography comprises more than sixty titles. Knittel studied sound engineering and composition with Tadeusz Baird, Andrzej Dobrowolski, and Włodzimierz Kotoński at Warsaw’s Chopin State Higher School (now University) of Music. In 1974 and 1976 he took part in the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.
