Born in Cracow, where she studied the violin with Zbigniew Szlezer at one of the city's secondary music schools. In 1993-94 she took composition lessons from Bogusław Schaeffer. In 2001 she graduated from the composition class of Lidia Zielińska at the Music Academy in Poznań.

Selected works: 21 Minutes of Music for Organ, Ave Maria for choir and 7 instruments, Microsonatina for solo flute, Recuerda for symphony orchestra, two string quartets, Ping Violin Tape Pong for violin and tape, U 00 for tape, Dissociations for solo accordion, Scheshem, instrumental theatre for instrumental ensemble, four actors, tape and video.

Dissociations is inspired by electronic sounds. The piece explores the stereophonic nature of the accordion and the possibility of fast exchange of sound between the performer's right and left hand. The title refers to the phenomenon of the splitting of a molecule into smaller elements: atoms and ions. The sounds and phrases are subjected here to the process of musical dissociation, the result being a vibrating, revolving sound.
The work was commissioned by the 'Warsaw Autumn' Friends' Foundation and financed with funds from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.
Katarzyna Taborowska