Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska - NOSPR

From an early age, Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska studied composition in Toruń’s music school. Following graduation with honors from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland (composition class of Prof. Zbigniew Kozub). In 2014, Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska completed postgraduate composition studies at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna under the guidance of Prof. Reinhard Karger. In 2016, she achieved her Ph.D. in composition at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland, and the habilitation degree in 2023. 

The artist has won numerous national and international competitions for composers, including International Composers Competition at the Oklahoma City University (Oklahoma City, United States, 2010), the European Young Composers Competition Gramodeska (Prague, Czech Republic, 2011), Tadeusz Ochlewski National Composition Contest organised by the PWM Edition (Kraków, Poland, 2011, 2015), Marathon V-Festival for young contemporary music (Vienna, Austria, 2013), Zygmunt Mycielski National Composition Contest staged by the Polish Composers Union (Warsaw, Poland 2013, 2014), XIV International Forum Music of Youth (Kiev, 2016), Special Prize European Piano Bridge during the International Composers Competition Artistes en Herbe in Luxembourg (2017), First Accordion Composition Competition FIDELIO (Madrid, Spain 2017), 4th Opus Dissonus Composition Competition (Brazil, 2018), International Composers Competition KALEIDOSCOPE (Los Angeles, United States, 2019), International Composers Competition Subtle Cheetah (New York, United States, 2019), International Composition Competition NEW VISION (New York, United States, 2020), International Call for Score Musica Prospettiva (Italy, 2020-2021), IX International Piano Competition Smederevo (Serbia, 2022), Classic Pure Vienna International Music Competition (Vienna, 2022) and Gold Medal during the Muzyczne Orły International Competition (Poland, 2023). 

She has been awarded many scholarships by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2012, 2020, 2024), the Minister of Science and Higher Education (Scholarship for outstanding young scientists, 2017–2020) or ZAIKS creative scholarships, to name only a few. 

Her works have been performed in Poland and abroad during prestigious international festivals and concerts of contemporary music in Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, Iceland, Hungary, Switzerland, Kosovo), in Asia (Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam), the United States (New York, Oklahoma City, New Mexico, Kansas, New Jersey, Sacramento), South America (Brazil) and Australia (Sydney). 

In spring 2016, during the International Music Days in Tongyeong, South Korea, held under the auspices of the International Society for Contemporary Music, her piece for brass quintet entitled Three Polish Dances was performed. Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska was one of the youngest participants of this prestigious festival. 

In 2018, her piece Meditation III was selected from over 1,000 compositions to be performed as part of the SCI Conference at the University of New Mexico (United States). 

In recent years, compositions by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska have been presented, among others during the following international festivals: LOOP 11 in Belgium, Eesti Muusika Päevad in Estonia, Tehran Contemporary Music Festival in Iran, the International Trombone Festival IPV in Basel, during the concert of the winners of the international composition competition at the Mozarthaus in Vienna, Word and music on exile and asylum at the Berlin Philharmonic and the International Flute Festival at the Sydney Opera House. 

In the season of 2017/2018, Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska was Composer-in-Residence of the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Society and two-time winner of Music of Our Time programme organised by the Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music in Lusławice. 

Her compositions have been performed by exquisite artists: Katherine McIndoe (soprano), Iwona Glinka (flute), Sibel Kumru-Pensel (flute), Łukasz Długosz (flute), Jean-Marc Fessard (clarinet), Thomas Leyendecker (trombone), Yuri Zhislin (violin), Stefan Kamasa (viola), Krzysztof Polonek (violin), Katarzyna Polonek (cello), Mari Fukumoto (organ), Louise Pollock (trombone); eminent ensembles and orchestras, such as SzegEd TRombone ENsemble (Hungary), Sac State Trombone Ensemble (US), Prague Modern (the Czech Republic), the New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble (US), Subtle Cheetah (US), The Oklahoma State University Trombone Ensemble (US), TrombQuartet, Duo Wolańska/Gajda, Sepia Ensemble, Silesian Quartet, NeoQuartet; NFM Choir National Forum of Music, Orchestra of Poznań Philharmonic, Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestra, Sudeten Philharmonic, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Gedanensis, Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, The Zielona Góra Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Cracovia, as well as outstanding conductors: Łukasz Borowicz, Szymon Bywalec, Jakub Chrenowicz, Henry Kennedy, Rafał Kłoczko, Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak, Monika Wolińska, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny. 

Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska’s works are published by PWM Edition, DUX, Acte Préalable and Norsk Musikforlag (Norway). 

In 2021, the first monographic album Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska. Chamber Music was released, published by DUX Recordings. 

The artist, who received the honorary badge Merit for Polish Culture (2021), is a member of the Polish Society of Contemporary Music and the Polish Composers Union. She works at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music (Poznań, Poland) as an assistant professor.