about

flutist. curator. activist

Prize awarded by the Polityka Magazine in the Classical Music category with the „Passport” Award, honored by the Ministry of Culture with the „Meritorious to Polish Culture” medal. Participant of the Fellowship Programme at the European Music Council 2022-2024 and the Leadership Academy for Poland 2024. Graduate of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in the class of Janos Balint and the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź in the class of Antoni Wierzbinski.

In 2013 Ania Karpowicz founded a new music cooperative named Hashtag Ensemble. She is a member of the ensemble as a flutist and engages in improvisational and educational initiatives. She co-founded the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Centre in Warsaw, and in 2022-2024 worked as a curator of the first stage for contemporary music in Poland, as well as the originator and programmer of the AżTak Festival. Hashtag Ensemble was awarded the Coryphaeus of Polish Music in the Event of the Year category 2024 for celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the album “Music of Strings” with the music by Wojciech Blazejczyk was awarded the 2023 Fryderyk in the Contemporary Music Album of the Year category.

Some of Ania’s many initiatives realized with the Hashtag Ensemble include: „Visegrad Songs”, „#WITKACY”, „#NetworkMusic”, and AVE VIRUS albums, a socially-engaged project Inhabitat:Stalowa for the Warsaw Autumn Festival as part of the European ULYSSES program, the Second:ary musical initiative programmed for the GAUDEAMUS Festival in Utrecht in cooperation with the MusicAZ refugee community, and a concept-program „Still in the Middle fo Happening” presented in Poland and Romania.

Ania Karpowicz is an active soloist. She collaborates with Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra under the baton of Bar Avni, the Oh!Orkiestra led by Martyna Pastuszka, the AUKSO Orchestra under the direction of Marek Moś and the Polish Radio Orchestra under the baton of Michał Klauza, as well as with the Orchestra of the National Opera in Bucharest, with the soloists of The Israeli Opera in Tel-Aviv, etc. In 2024, the ANAKLASIS label released the recording of Witold Szalonek’s Concertino for flute and orchestra, conducted by Marek Moś and featuring the AUKSO orchestra, nominated for the Fryderyk Awards.

In 2017, she initiated the WarszeMuzik festival together with pianist Marek Bracha. The festival intervenes with chamber classical music in the courtyards of old tenement houses saved in the former Warsaw Ghetto area and in the Umschlagplatz monument. In the festival’s 9-year history, more than 60 events have taken place and two CDs have been released combining classical music with field recordings realized in the old tenement houses. She is also a co-founder of the Mieczysław Wajnberg Institute, established in 2020 together with Maria Slawek and Aleksander Laskowski. Out of her initiative, Wajnberg’s Warsaw walk-a-bye has been published in Polish, English, and in Yiddish.

In 2023, she initiated and co-founded the oto foundation („oto” meaning „sound” in Japanese) in cooperation with fellow musicians and curators. The mission of the oto foundation is to build broad international cooperations focused on narrative and contextual programming in classical music. One of the foundation’s flagship projects is the international chamber music festival Droga Dō, held in 2025 in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Israel.

Ania Karpowicz performs both on modern and historical wooden flutes. In 2024 she initiated the KAREHANA project for wooden flute and historical piano together with Japanese pianist Naruhiko Kawaguchi. The concept program consisting of works by Franz Schubert, Anne Southam, and Andrew Karałow was hosted by the “Dwójka Philharmony” and was realized in cooperation with the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. The wooden flute is also the musical key to another concept program realized with the Oh!Orkiestra, and combines the JS Bach Flute Concerto BWV1056R with a premiere of the „Nebenkonzert” by Paweł Malinowski.

Ania Karpowicz seeks paths of musical programming combining multicultural threads (WarszeMuzik, Dear Dō) while avoiding stereotypes, cultural appropriation, and oversimplification. She explores Japanese motifs in INTINERANT solo flute recital with music by Toru Takemitsu, Dai Fujikura, Kazuo Fukushima and Nina Fukuoka, featuring visual works by Karol Tomoki Yamazaki, and in the BLOOM project with music by Aleksandra Słyż interpreting haiku by Czesław Miłosz, featuring visual artist MAUKO.

As an improviser and composer, Ania Karpowicz focuses on projects related to the search for identity by contemporary women artists of various disciplines. Her achievements include the interdisciplinary project TOVA for flute, electronics and video realized in close cooperation with Polish female composers, two of her own site-specific pieces composed to the poetry of Irena Klepfisz and performed in the public space of Warsaw, as well as Rafał Zapala’s performative piece JUDGE ME AGAIN recorded for the KAIROS label on the album Futility.

As a curator, Ania Karpowicz specializes in projects in the field of classical and contemporary music with contextual empathy at their center. She collaborates with music institutions and festivals in Poland and around the world, creating events that combine excellent musical interpretations with the cross-cultural and social awareness of composers, performers, and audiences.

Ania Karpowicz is a mom of three: Tosia, Ignaś, and Mimi.