Michajłów Lena

Lena Michajłów – kompozytorka młodego pokolenia obecna ze swoją twórczością na ważnych wydarzeniach kulturalnych.

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Lena Michajłow was born on January 31, 2002, in Krakow. She graduated from the Zenon Brzewski Secondary Music School in Warsaw. She holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she studied under Dr. Ignacy Zalewski (diploma with distinction). She is currently continuing her studies in Composition with Electronic, Film, and Theatre Music. Her works have been successfully performed in numerous concert halls in Poland and abroad, including the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Krakow Philharmonic, the San Giovanni Hall (Cuneo, Italy), the KTO Theatre in Krakow, Hashtag Lab, the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music, the concert hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and the House of Art in Radziejowice. She has participated in composition workshops in Warsaw, Radziejowice, and Darmstadt, working with world-renowned composers such as Marc Andre, Marco Stroppa, Peteris Vasks, Francesco Filidei, Oscar Bianchi, Justė Janulytė, Du Yun, Clara Ianotta, Brigitta Muntendorf, Paweł Mykietyn, Zygmunt Krauze, Krzysztof Knittel, Alexander Schubert, Marta Ptaszyńska, Ondřej Adámek, Doina Rotaru, and Johannes Kreidler. Her compositions have been performed by distinguished artists including Leszek Lorent, Michał Górczyński, Robert Żelazko, the Contemporary Ensemble Music Cooperative, Concept Store Quartet, Ko-MAT Ensemble, Trio Javorkai, and others. Lena is interested not only in creating acoustic compositions but also in multimedia works and editing her own films. In February 2023, she took part in the Synthdesign Marathon Hackathon, during which, together with a group of three composers, they created their own ecological instrument based on distance sensors. She has composed music for plays and radio dramas by Jerzy Machowski, Michał Rogalski, Aga Błaszczak, Magdalena Drab, Jan Kamiński, Maciej Jaszczyński, and Oskar Winiarski, presented on Polish Radio, the Rozmaitości Theatre, the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw, and the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music. She co-created the music for the multimedia monodrama LOVEBOMB, which premiered at the KTO Theatre as an event accompanying the Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers’ Union. Her piece „Niestałość” won the Grand Prize in the Composition Competition for a piece for solo flute, mandatory for participants of the 2nd International E. Towarnicki Flute Competition. She was invited to participate in a project organized by the Accademia della Voce del Piemonte, which culminated in the premiere of her Piano Trio in Cuneo, Italy (July 2022). In April 2023, she was selected as one of three composers from Poland to win the Playground project, commissioning her to write a piece for the Contemporary Ensemble Music Cooperative. It was performed twice in September of this year as a prologue to the Warsaw Autumn and Sacrum Profanum festivals. In May of the same year, Lena was selected (from over 80 applicants from around the world) to write a composition for the Duo Stump-Linshalm, which will be performed at the Limina Festival at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the fall of 2023. Lena has also won numerous piano competitions (including those in Warsaw, Żagań, Antonin, Košice, Paris, Gödöllő, etc.), and her recitals have taken place in numerous concert halls in Poland and abroad. As a pianist, she has been a member of the Chopin University Modern Ensemble (nominated for the Fryderyk Award) since 2021. She actively performs contemporary music – she twice participated in the prestigious European Workshop of Contemporary Music as part of the 65th and 66th Warsaw Autumn Festivals, and has premiered works by young composers numerous times. She has also co-created other events during Warsaw Autumn festivals as a pianist and improviser. In September 2022, she honed her skills during workshops on graphic music interpretation with members of the Klangforum Wien ensemble. She is also developing her improvisation and collective composition skills, actively participating in the AZA trio, which debuted in April 2023. In September of that same year, they participated in the Elektrofonia concert, an event accompanying the Warsaw Autumn festival. In 2015, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, in 2016 and 2017 a scholarship from the Sapere Auso Foundation, and in 2020 a scholarship from the Julian Cochran Foundation. From 2016 to 2019, she participated in the National Children’s Fund’s program for exceptionally gifted individuals.