Ewa Trębacz - NOSPR

Composer and interdisciplinary artist currently residing in Seattle, USA. Her works range from purely instrumental solo, chamber, and symphonic compositions to compositions with computer realised sound with live performance, to soundtracks for animated films, to immersive audiovisual performances in mixed and extended reality. Collaboration with other artists, understood as exchange of creativity, is essential to her work. She often uses space as a catalyst for improvisation, creating spatial soundscapes by recording in unique acoustic environments, and using recording techniques as a compositional tool. 

Ewa Trębacz comes from Kraków, Poland, where she studied composition under a renowned composer, musicologist and teacher Bogusław Schaeffer, graduating with a master’s degree in 1999. She also holds a doctorate from the University of Washington Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) program, graduating in 2010 with her audiovisual immersive work Errai, premiered at the Warsaw Autumn Festival.  

Her works have been presented, performed and broadcast in over 30 countries on four continents, and have been featured in Organised Sound, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, and major Polish music magazines. In 2009, her work things lost things invisible for Ambisonic space and orchestra, received a prestigious recommendation from the 56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, associated with the International Music Council and representing 27 radio stations from around the world. 

Ewa Trębacz has received composing commissions among others from the Klangspuren Festival in Austria, the International Contemporary Music Festival “Warsaw Autumn”, the Musica Polonica Festival in Wrocław, the Polish Composers’ Union (for Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra), Seattle-based ensembles: Seattle Modern Orchestra, Kin of the Moon and the North Corner Chamber Orchestra (NOCCO), and several virtuoso soloists collaborating with composers on creating new repertoire for their instruments. She has been a recipient of scholarships and grants from the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art, the City of Kraków, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation / USArtists International and the Allied Arts Foundation in Seattle (2018 Artist Award “Listen UP! Music by Women”). In 2022, Ewa Trębacz was selected to be a composer-in-residence at the 33rd Musica Polonica Nova Festival at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław. Her monographic CD, including two chamber works and three orchestral works, was released in 2013 by the Polish Radio, Polish Composers’ Union and Polish Music Information Center (polmic.pl). Her electroacoustic compositions have been presented at events such as the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, world-wide ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), SEAMUS (The Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States Conference), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), Mise-En Festival (New York City), SPLICE Festival II (BGSU), and many other international festivals and conferences.