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composer, musicologist, and improviser; b. 13th November 1989 in Toruń. She attended the Karol Szymanowski Music School Complex in her hometown, studying composition with Magdalena Cynk. In 2011, she received her BA in musicology from the Adam Mickiewicz University on Poznań. Two years later she graduated with honours in composition from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań under Professor Zbigniew Kozub. In 2014, she completed postgraduate composition studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna under Professor Reinhard Karger. In 2016, she received her PhD in composition and theory of music. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań.

The artist has won numerous national and international composition competitions, including the International Composers Competition at the Oklahoma City University (Oklahoma City, 2010), European Young Composers Competition Gramodeska (Prague, 2011), Tadeusz Ochlewski Composition Competition organised by PWM Edition (Cracow, 2011, 2015), Marathon V-Festival for young contemporary music (Vienna, 2013), Zygmunt Mycielski Composition Competition of the Polish Composers' Union (Warsaw, 2013, 2014), 14th International "Music of Youth" Forum (Kiev, 2016), Special Prize European Piano Bridge at the International Composers Competition "Artistes en Herbe" (Luxembourg, 2017), First Accordion Composition Competition FIDELIO (Madrid, 2017), 4th Opus Dissonus Composition Competition (Brazil, 2018), International Composers Competition KALEIDOSCOPE (Los Angeles, 2019), International Composers Competition Subtle Cheetah (New York, 2019), International Composition Competition NEW VISION (New York, 2020), and International Call for Score Musica Prospettiva (Italy, 2020-2021).

She has been awarded numerous scholarships, including the "Young Poland" scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2012, 2020), and scholarship for outstanding young scientists of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2017-2020). In 2020 she received the Young Art Medal of the "Voice of Greater Poland" daily newspaper.

Her works are performed very often in Poland and abroad during prestigious international festivals, including the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, "Probaltica" Baltic Countries Music and Art Festival, "Poznań Music Spring" International Festival of Contemporary Music, Festival of Polish Music in Krakow, "Music in Old Cracow" International Festival, LOOP 11 in Belgium, Eesti Muusika Päevad in Estonia, Tehran Contemporary Music Festival in Iran, the International Clarinet Festival ClarinetFest in the United States or Word and music on exile and asylum at the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as concerts of contemporary music in Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Portugal, Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Norway, Majorca, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine), in Asia (Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam) and the United States (Oklahoma City, Nowy Meksyk, Kansas, New Jersey).

In spring 2016, her Three Polish Dances for brass quintet were performed at the International Music Days in Tongyeong, South Korea, held under the auspices of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska was one of the youngest participants of this prestigious festival. In 2018, her piece Meditation III was selected from over 1,000 compositions to be performed as part of the SCI Conference at the University of New Mexico.

In 2014/2015 she was a Composer-in-Residence of the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra and in 2017/2018 of the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Society, thanks to the programme of the Institute of Music and Dance. She was also a two-time winner of the "Music of Our Time" programme organized by the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music.

Her compositions have been performed by such ensembles and orchestras as, among others, TrombQuartet, Wolańska/Gajda Duo, Sepia Ensemble, Silesian Quartet, NeoQuartet, National Forum of Music Choir, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestra, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Gedanensis, Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, Prague Modern (Czech Republic), the New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble (United States), Subtle Cheetah (United States); as well as outstanding conductors: Szymon Bywalec, Jakub Chrenowicz, Rafał Kłoczko, Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak, Monika Wolińska, Adam Domurat, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny.

Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska’s works are published by the PWM Edition, DUX, Acte Prélable and Norsk Musikforlag. In 2021, the album Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska. Chamber Music was released by DUX label.

The artist is a member of the Polish Society for Contemporary Music and the Polish Composers' Union.

updated: 2021 (ac)

Artist's website: www.jelinska.pl

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