Kasia Glowicka

Kasia Glowicka
Kasia Glowicka in 2007
Background information
Birth name	Katarzyna Glowicka
Born	1977 (age 39–40)
Origin	Poland
Occupation(s)	Composer

Kasia Glowicka (born Katarzyna Glowicka, October 12, 1977), also known as Katarina Glowicka, is an award-winning Polish composer and lecturer of computer music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Her compositions span a range of styles in experimental, minimalism, Avant-garde, art music and contemporary classical music genres, written for orchestra, small ensembles, or solos and often accompanied by electronic music. She has also composed scores for opera, theater, ballet and film. In 2004 she married composer Henry Vega and they reside in the Netherlands. They are founding directors of the Artek Foundation and its recording label, ARTEKsounds. Glowicka's scores are published by the Dutch institute Donemus.

Glowicka was born in Oleśnica. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in 2001 after studying with the composer Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil. During 2000 she held an internship with Italian composer Ivan Fedele at the Conservatory in Strasbourg and later studied with Dutch composers, Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, of which she is also a graduate. She also completed a PhD focusing on computer music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at the Queen's University Belfast in 2008.