about

flutist. curator. activist

Graduate of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and Łódź Music Academy. Prizewinner of the 2020 Polityka Passport Awards in the Classical Music category. Participant in the Fellowship Program by the European Music Council 2022-2024 and the Leadership Academy for Poland 2024.

Founder of the new music cooperative Hashtag Ensemble. Co-directs the cooperative by programming events, giving concerts, and engaging in improvisational and educational initiatives. She co-manages the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Centre in Warsaw.
www.hashtag-ensemble.org / www.hashtaglab.pl

As a soloist, Ania Karpowicz focuses on projects related to the subject of the search for identity by contemporary women artists of various disciplines. Her achievements include the interdisciplinary project TOVA, two of her site-specific pieces composed to the poetry of Irena Klepfisz and performed in the public spaces of Warsaw, and the performative piece JUDGE ME AGAIN by Rafał Zapała presented in the KAIROS released album.
www.tovaproject.art

As a curator, Ania Karpowicz specializes in classical and contemporary music projects carried out in close cooperation with local communities. In 2017, together with pianist Marek Bracha, she initiated the WarszeMuzik chamber music festival held in the courtyards of old tenement houses in the former Warsaw Ghetto area. She is also a co-founder of the Mieczysław Weinberg Institute, established in 2020.
www.warszemuzik.org / www.instytutwajnberga.org

In 2023, together with artists and music producers Ania Karpowicz established the oto foundation with a mission to build extensive international collaborations around narrative programming in classical music. Oto foundation is co-managed by Alicja Kieruzalska and Agata Krystek. One of foundation’s emerging projects is an international classical music festival „Droga dō”.
www.otofundacja.org

Ania Karpowicz cooperates with musical institutions and festivals and creates events that combine outstanding musical interpretations with the social awareness of composers, performers, and audiences.