Joanna Wozny

Contemporary Polish Composer and Sound Artist

Joanna Wozny was born in 1973 in Zabrze (Poland) and currently lives in Graz. She studied philosophy at the Silesian University at Katowice (Poland) and composition with Gerd Kühr and Beat Furrer (University for Music, Graz) as well as with Younghi Pagh-Paan. She received various awards and distinctions such as the Österreichische Staatsstipendium, the Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Grant of the Federal Province of Styria, a promotional stipend by the city of Graz, a grant of the Stefan-Batory-Foundation, Warsaw and, in 2010, the prize for composition of the Erste Bank. Her works were performed at the Ultraschall-Festival Berlin, the Warsaw Autumn, Musikprotokoll Graz (Steirischer Herbst), Klangspuren Schwaz, Mozart-Year Vienna 2006, and SOUNDINGS (Austrian Cultural Forum London). She has worked with the RSO/Radio-Symphony-Orchestra Vienna, the Munich Radio Orchestra, ensemble courage, Trio EIS, Ensemble Wiener Collage, mdi-ensemble Milano, Ensemble PercussioNova, Sascha Armbruster and Ulf Schirmer.