Kasia Lewandowska
The polish concert harp-player, composer, and performance artist had started her harp education at the age of 10. She then studied harp and piano at the Warsaw Music Academy and finished her education with a scholarship at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
The origins of her music understanding come from the desire to develop a language of sounds. In her individual way, she combines elements from the classical music, impressionism, jazz, folk, and also contemporary music, giving her compositions an original tone color, articulation and harmony.
She has been involved in multiple orchestras, cameral ensembles, jazz formations and performing groups, however, she particularly enjoys mixing different forms of artistic expression. At the end of 20’s she creates her first experimental compositions for a concert harp, an electric harp, and also different custom-modified harps, oftentimes in a dialog with light, color, text, and dance.
Bringing together and experiencing different artistic forms of expression by use of picture and music becomes her central theme. Such expressions as „acoustic movement” and „visual music” characterize her past artistic development and are also essential for her current artistic activity.
The term „visual music” means: mutual inspiration and enrichment of different arts, and, as a result, widening of the experience horizon of the observer. The encounter with the color forms tone spaces, acoustic and pictorial tone paintings. As if they had neither the beginning nor the end …
„Sound is for me often like red raspberries, sometimes is deep blue, and sometimes smells like oranges.”