Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska
Violist, producer and social activist
A violist specializing in contemporary music, Doctor of Musical Arts, and co-director of the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space in Warsaw. Member of the creative leadership group of Hashtag Ensemble, whose activities were awarded the Koryfeusz of Polish Music 2024 in the Event of the Year category, as well as an award from the Polish Society of Authors and Composers.
As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at prestigious venues and festivals in Poland and across Europe, including Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, Poznań Spring Music Festival, Svatováclavský Hudební Festival, Meridian, Klangwerkstatt, and Unerhörte Musik, as well as at Berkeley and Stanford University (USA). She has collaborated with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Sinfonia Iuventus, Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra, Radom Chamber Orchestra, and the InterCamerata Orchestra.
She has premiered over 60 solo and chamber works, including concertos dedicated to her by Paweł Łukaszewski, Wojciech Błażejczyk, Weronika Ratusińska-Zamuszko, Artur Kroschel, and Dawid Pajdzik. She is an advocate for rediscovering forgotten works by Witold Friemann and 20th-century Polish-Jewish composers such as Eta Tyrmand, Jerzy Fitelberg, Ignacy Friedman, Karol Rathaus, and Mieczysław Weinberg. Since 2019, she has been actively performing as part of a duo with pianist Wojciech Pyrć.
A laureate of national and international competitions, including First Prize at the Zygmunt Friemann Polish Music Competition in Bydgoszcz, Grand Prize Virtuoso in Salzburg, and ISCART in Lugano. In 2023, an album featuring her performances received the Fryderyk Award in the Contemporary Music category.
She has recorded 15 albums for renowned labels such as Kairos, Orphée Classics, DUX, Requiem Records / Opus Series, Chopin University Press, and PGM Audio, including world premiere recordings of Songs by Witold Friemann and the Sonata by Eta Tyrmand.
Since 2019, she has also been active as a producer and curator of artistic events and projects, and is the initiator of the educational programme PRO Academy of Hashtag Ensemble. She has delivered lectures and masterclasses, among others, in Phnom Penh (2016) and Radziejowice (2019). From 2022 to 2025, she served as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Łódź.
She has been awarded the “Meritorious to Polish Culture” Badge (2020) and the Gold Badge of the Association of Polish Artist Musicians (2022). A multiple recipient of scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Polish Society of Authors and Composers. She serves as President of the New Music Guild, Secretary of the Main Board of the Association of Polish Artist Musicians, Vice-President of the Mieczysław Weinberg Institute, and a Board Member of the Sfera Harmonii Foundation, which oversees the Hashtag Lab Community Cultural Institution. Member of the expert group ThinkThankYou.