Polish composer and arranger. A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, she continued her training at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ in Turin, Italy. She’ve had the opportunity to learn from composers such as Ēriks Ešenvalds, Bob Chilcott, Ko Matsushita or Paweł Łukaszewski. Zuzanna Koziej is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (Young Poland’ programme, 2021).
Her first monographic album, “Music of Trust”, with choral and vocal-orchestral music was published in February 2023 with the participation of the Choir of National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Poland and Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny as a conductor.
Her pieces were also included on other albums: “Water Nymph” on the CD of the Choir of Maritime University of Szczecin, and “The Lamb”, a winning piece of the international composition competition titled “The Lamb’s Journey” in the United States in 2022, was published on the CD of Ensemble Altera, with the same title, in March 2024.
She won numerous awards in international composition competitions. Among her recent achievements in 2023, she received the 3rd prize in the New Works Rising Choral Composition Competition by Phoenix Boys Choir in United States and she was awarded an honourable mention in two other competitions.
Her pieces are performed in various countries around the world, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ecuador, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Italy, Serbia, Ukraine, Turkey, the Netherlands, Hungary, very often as a part of international exchange projects. She organised one project herself, “Zaufanie-Vertrauen. Bringing Poles and Germans together through music.”, where her piece Mass of Trust was performed jointly by a German and Polish choirs, giving concerts in both countries. She is deeply committed to music that unites, teaches and helps discover new things for both audiences and musicians.
Website: www.zuzannakoziej.com