Hanna Kulenty

Polish Contemporary Classical Composer

Hanna Kulenty, composer, born on 18th March 1961 in Białystok. In 1980-86 she studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Music Academy in Warsaw, then in 1986-88 - composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the Hague. She also participated in International Courses for Young Composers organised by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM/SIMC), Polish Section, as well as the Summer Courses of New Music in Darmstadt. In 1990-91 she worked in Berlin as a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship holder. Since 1989, she has dedicated herself primarily to composition. She is a freelance composer, a recipient of numerous commissions and scholarships. She has taught at numerous courses of composition, e.g. in Apeldoorn (1995), Radziejowice and Munich (1996), Amsterdam (1997) and California (1998). Since 1999 she has been composer-in-residence in the Netherlands.