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Agnieszka Guz-Tarnowska

Skrzypce / Hashtag Ensemble

Pri­vate­ly:

Wife and moth­er. For sev­er­al years, she has been con­duct­ing inten­sive research on the elas­tic­i­ty of space­time and the vol­ume of the “in-between” moments. Every day, she dili­gent­ly expands her reserves of patience, and is also try­ing to grow a third arm for her­self… so far, how­ev­er, with no spec­tac­u­lar results. She loves wild pan­sies and sun­flow­ers. She col­lects all kinds of evi­dence that the most can be heard in… silence. She enjoys lis­ten­ing, search­ing for beau­ty even in the small­est details, and solv­ing every knot. She plays music, because how else could one express the inef­fa­ble? Besides, “only silence is more beau­ti­ful than music” (P. Claudel).

On the pro­fes­sion­al side:


She is a grad­u­ate of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty of Music in War­saw, where she stud­ied vio­lin under Pro­fes­sor Kon­stan­ty Andrzej Kul­ka (grad­u­at­ed with dis­tinc­tion, 2009).

As a soloist, she is the lau­re­ate of numer­ous nation­al and inter­na­tion­al music com­pe­ti­tions. Among her most sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ments in the field of vio­lin per­for­mance are: the spe­cial prize for the best per­for­mance of a con­tem­po­rary piece at the 10th Inter­na­tion­al J. Brahms Com­pe­ti­tion in Pörtschach, Aus­tria (2003); and the 4th prize at the 7th Nation­al Vio­lin Com­pe­ti­tion in mem­o­ry of Z. Jahnke in Poz­nań, along with the award for the youngest final­ist (2004)- In the same year, she won the sec­ond prize at the Nation­al Audi­tions for Stu­dents of Vio­lin and Vio­la Class­es of Music Schools of the sec­ond degree; the sec­ond prize for the best per­for­mance of W.A. Mozart’s con­cer­to at the 13th Inter­na­tion­al Hen­ryk Wieni­aws­ki Com­pe­ti­tion in Poz­nań (2006); the third prize at the 23rd Inter­na­tion­al Valsesia Musi­ca Com­pe­ti­tion in Grig­nasco and the third prize at the Inter­na­tion­al A. Postac­chi­ni Vio­lin Com­pe­ti­tion in Fer­mo (Italy, 2007), as well as the third prize at the 2nd Inter­na­tion­al Baltic Vio­lin Com­pe­ti­tion in Gdańsk (2007).”

She has par­tic­i­pat­ed mul­ti­ple times in mas­ter­class­es both in Poland and abroad, where she worked under the guid­ance of dis­tin­guished pro­fes­sors such as Prof. W. Marschn­er, Prof. P. Munteanu, Prof. R. Bal­di­ni, Prof. I. Ois­tra­ch, Prof. T. Gadz­i­na, Prof. M. Urba­ni­ak-Lisik, Prof. P. Łosakiewicz, and Prof. A. Bauer. In July 2004, as a schol­ar­ship hold­er of the Min­istry of Cul­ture, she went to Cal­gary (Cana­da) for a one-month Morn­ing­side Music Bridge pro­gram. In the same year, she also received a schol­ar­ship from the Min­is­ter of Culture.

Since 2013, she has been a mem­ber of the Hash­tag Ensem­ble, spe­cial­iz­ing in the per­for­mance of con­tem­po­rary music. She has been involved in numer­ous world pre­mieres of clas­si­cal con­tem­po­rary music (com­po­si­tions by M. Górec­ki, S. Kac­zorows­ki, Z. Dow­giałło-Zych, M. Majku­si­ak, I. Zalews­ki, D. Przy­byl­s­ki, A. Poręb­s­ki, W. Błaże­jczyk, P. Mali­nows­ki, M. Beb­mi­now). In 2018, she released an album with #Ensem­ble titled Net­work Music. She also par­tic­i­pates in edu­ca­tion­al cycles for chil­dren, such as “Smyko­fo­nia na Gro­chowskiej” and “Smykow­iz­je” at the Con­tem­po­rary Art Centre.

She is active­ly involved in the field of cham­ber music – she was award­ed the sec­ond prize at the VI Nation­al Vio­lin Cham­ber Ensem­ble Com­pe­ti­tion in mem­o­ry of G. Bacewicz in Łódź (vio­lin duo, 1997), and the third prize at the XVI Inter­na­tion­al Cham­ber Music Com­pe­ti­tion in mem­o­ry of K. Bacewicz in Łódź (piano trio, 2007). In 2004, she rep­re­sent­ed Poland at the VIII Euro­pean Music Fes­ti­val Malmö-Copen­hagen as a mem­ber of a string quartet.

In 2011, she co-found­ed Duet Inte­gro with Alek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka (vio­la), debut­ing at the 58th Musi­ca Mod­er­na Ses­sion Fes­ti­val in Łódź. From 2012, the duo began col­lab­o­rat­ing with flutist Ania Kar­pow­icz, form­ing the Trio In:te:gro. As a trio, they per­formed at numer­ous fes­ti­vals in Poland, includ­ing the 13th F. Wybrańczyk Fes­ti­val Sin­fo­nia Varso­via Swo­je­mu Mias­tu, the 6th J. Wal­dorff Sum­mer Fes­ti­val in Radziejow­ice, and the 3rd “New Waves” Con­tem­po­rary Music Fes­ti­val in Gdańsk. In:te:gro is the only trio of its kind in Poland, fea­tur­ing flute, vio­lin, and vio­la, and is active­ly involved in both clas­si­cal and con­tem­po­rary music.

From 2008 to 2011, she worked with the Pol­ish Orches­tra Sin­fo­nia Iuven­tus, where she held the posi­tion of assis­tant con­cert­mas­ter. Since 2011, she has been a mem­ber of the Sin­fo­nia Varso­via Orches­tra (from 2011 to 2013, she served as the leader of the sec­ond violins).

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