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Zuzanna Koziej
Zuzanna Koziej speaks about the extraordinary possibilities of the human voice, which can convey emotions and create a direct connection between performer and listener. She highlights the unifying role of choral music, which encourages people from different backgrounds and cultures to come together. She also emphasizes the importance of dialogue with performers: their feedback and interpretive ideas can inspire new artistic solutions and enrich the composer’s music.
Rozmawia Ania Karpowicz
Zuzanna Koziej
Zuzanna Koziej is a Polish composer and arranger, a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and the Giuseppe Verdi State Conservatory of Music in Turin. She specialises particularly in choral and vocal-instrumental music and has written around 150 works. She is a laureate of numerous international composition competitions. In 2023, she received Third Prize in the New Works Rising Choral Composition Competition in the United States, and in 2022 she won Second Prize in the international ISCM composition competition for female choirs in Latvia. She has also received awards in the Sacra/Profana, Piotr Perkowski, and Alexander Kastalsky competitions. In 2023, her first monographic album, Music of Trust, was released.