She is a third-year student of composition at the Music Academy in Poznań (the class of Lidia Zielińska). She is a prizewinner of several competitions for composers and performers, including the 'Youth Forum' National Composers' Competition in Warsaw (First Prize, 2000), the 'Crescendo' National Composers' Competition in Tarn-w (Third Prize, 1999), and the Competition for Performers of 20th-century Music in Radziejowice (finalist, as pianist, 1999). She received a prize from the Mayor of Toruń (2000) and a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2000). She has participated in numerous music courses such as the 'Acanthes' International Composition Course in Villeneuve-les-Avignon (2002), the Courses in the Performance of 20th-century piano and vocal music in Bystrzyca Kłodzka (1999, 2000), the National Course for Composers in Jelenia G-ra (1999), and the Course in Chamber Music in Nowy Sącz (1997).

Selected works: The Voice of Elves at Dawn for recorder, flute and female voice (2000), Pot-holes of Heaven for accordion and orchestra (2001), Legend for violin and electronic sounds (2001), Lacrimosa for female choir (2001), Flower of the Gods for soprano, flute, bass clarinet, marimba, guitar and tam-tam (2001), Ehwaz for five timpani and two percussionists (2002), atnongara for solo piano (2002).

atnongara (light stones). The stones of the title are usually various types of quartzes, mountain crystals. During an initiation trance Australian shamans used to place them in the convert's body to equip him with the ability to foretell future events, to heal and to identify the spiritual causes of diseases. Light stones were therefore responsible for the shaman's mystic powers.
Dobromiła Jaskot