Marta Piórkowska

Vio­lin / Hash­tag Ensem­ble / Cre­ative Group / Curators

Vio­lin­ist, cham­ber musi­cian, edu­ca­tor, grad­u­ate of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty of Music in the class of Prof. Jan Stanien­da. Win­ner of the Fry­deryk Award 2024 in the cat­e­go­ry of Album of the Year – Cham­ber Music.

She has been play­ing with Hash­tag Ensem­ble since 2016 and is cur­rent­ly also a mem­ber of the Cre­ative Group. In Hash­tag Lab, she is involved in event pro­duc­tion, leads the Young Acad­e­my pro­gram, and helps with orga­niz­ing the broad­er reality.

Besides that, she is the pri­mar­ius of the Poldows­ki String Quar­tet, with which she pur­sues her great­est pas­sion — cham­ber music.

She has per­formed at many fes­ti­vals in Poland, includ­ing the War­saw Autumn, Ad Libi­tum, Sacrum Pro­fanum, War­saw Musi­cal Meet­ings, Opera Rara, Polin Music Fes­ti­val, and Warsze­Muzik, as well as abroad at Tête à Tête in Lon­don, Inter­so­n­anzen in Pots­dam, Weimar­er Früh­jahrsstage in Weimar, and the MERIDIAN Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val in Romania.

She has per­formed many world pre­mieres of out­stand­ing young Pol­ish com­posers’ works. Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk ded­i­cat­ed the piece Fake Ros­es to her.

She loves chil­dren. She has three of her own and for the past 11 years, she has been encour­ag­ing oth­er chil­dren to take up music at the K. Szy­manows­ki Sec­ondary School of Music No. 4.

She loves the Bieszczady and Low Beskids. When she retires, she plans to live there with wolves and bears.