Hanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary music who studied composition in Warsaw and in The Hague. She was a scholarship holder of the DAAD's Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme in 1990/91 and was supported by the Podiumkunsten Fund, Holland since 1993. In 1985 the exam work of the then 24-year-old composer already brought her international success: ‘Ad Unum’ for symphony orchester won the second prize at the European Young Composers' Competition of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam. Between 1986 and 1989 Hanna Kulenty received several prizes from the Polish Composers' Association, among others. In 2003 Kulenty won the first prize of the UNESCO "50th International Rostrum of Composers" with her Concerto for Trumpet (2002). She has been a jury member at international composition competitions and has given guest lectures in the USA and in Europe. She currently is a professor in composition in Bydgoszcz. Her compositions, including symphonies, operas, ensemble works and solo concerts, have been premiered by radio symphony orchestras in Holland, Denmark, Poland and Germany, among others. Among the interpreters of her works are ensembles such as Kronos Quartet, the ASKO|Schönberg and De Ereprijs, soloists such as Elzbieta Chojnacka, Isabelle van Keulen, Marco Blaauw and Geneviève Strosser. www.hannakulenty.com