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Introduction

Marta Kania clarinetist. She was born on 17.09.1991 in Poland. Her music education began at the age of 13. Marta Kania is currently a student of the Master’s Programme in Symphonic Orchestra Performance at the Academy Of Music and Drama in Goteborg inUbran Claesson class.

In 2017-2018  she was a student of the Interpretation Course in Musik- och Operahögskolan vid Mälardalens Högskola
in Emil Jonason class in Vasteras and she studied at the Interpetation Course for the Orchestra Instruments at the Academy of Music and Drama in Goteborg.

In 2015-2017 She studied and the Academy of Music in Katowice-postgraduated clarinet
faculty in Roman Widaszek clarinet class. She graduated Master Degree in June 2015 at the
Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland) in Zenon Kitowski clarinet class.
In 2013 she hold the degree of Bachelor of Music at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of
Music in Poznań in Paweł Drobnik clarinet class.

In the years 2006-2016 she participated in Master Classes and music festivals in
Poland and abroad: such as International Music Course and Festival in Arezzo with Jonathan
Cohler, International Music Course in Spain with Enrique Perez, Edu Raimondo, Louis Miguel
Mendez, Carlos Lacruz and also master classes with Martin Frost Florent Heau, with Jean
Marc Fessard, Spyros Maurikis, Igor Frantisak, Kyrill Rybakov, Anotnio Saiote, Nicholas Cox
etc.
Marta Kania had participated in many orchestra projects solo and chamber music
project In 2010 she participated in the Grundtvig Programme . They played concert in Poland
and in Lithuania. She also played many orchestra projects with Poznan and the Bydgoszcz
Academic Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, Marta Kania represented Poland during the
Eurodynamics Project in Budapest, creating a music and theater project with artists from
Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Spain and Hungary. In 2013, Marta Kania performed with the
Fonomo Orchestra and Trifonidis Roots Trio at the Fonomo Music and Film Festival in
Bydgoszcz. In 2014 she took an active part in the 4th European Clarinet Congress in
Katowice. In 2012-2015 Marta Kania also participated in the Music Festivals in Arezzo (Italy)
and in Xativa (Spain), performing both solo and chamber music and playing the first clarinet
in the International Symphony Orchestra created especially for these festivals. In 2015,
Marta took part in the project of the Academic Wind Orchestra in Katowice, which was
conducted by Krzesimir Dębski. In 2016, Marta Kania had the pleasure to play in the National
Orchestra Polish Radio concert hall with the Academic Wind Orchestra of the Music
Academy in Katowice conducted by maestro Grzegorz Mielimąka. In May 2016, together
with the pianist Mateusz Kawą, she played in the Concert Hall of the Academy Music in
Katowice as part of the Student Art Festival.

In July 2016, she participated in the International Festival of Wind Instruments Ventus
Optimus in Lodz, where she trained her skills with prof. Antonio Saiote. Marta Kania won the
first prize at the International Wind Instruments Competition in Łódź. In August 2016 Marta
Kania played two concerts with International Wind Octet during the Music Festival in
Camerino – Italy and played a concert inaugurating the 6th European Clarinet Festival in
Camerino. Apart from these concerts, she also took part in this clarinet festival, participating
in master classes with Nicholas Cox, Kyrill Rybakov and Anotnio Saiote.
She played in the Women’s Salon Orchestra in Katowice conducted by maestro Grzegorz
Mierzwiński, and they collaborated with famous clarinet player Wojciech Mrozek.

Marta Kania has been playing in the Univeristy of Goteborg Symphony Orchestra since
August 2017. She has collaborated since then with such conductors as Henrik Schaefer,
Christian Zacharias, Joana Mallwitz, Karen Kamensek, Valentina Peleggi, Nick Davies,
Christian von Gehren, Finn Rosengren, Marta Kania also collarborates with Goteborg Wind
Orchestra. She also playes chamber music. Marta Kania has a international trio- the cello
clarinet and piano, clarinet quintet and duo with piano. They had the opportunity to play
concerts in Goteborg. In October 2018, Marta Kania played a concerts with chamber group
during Classical Music Festival in Goteborg. Marta Kania is also a freelancer on the E flat and
the bass clarinet in Sweden. Marta Kania also played concerts with Jonkoping Sinfonietta.

In August 2018, Marta Kania started the Master’s Programme in Symphonic
Orchestra Performance at the Academy of Music and Drama in Goteborg.