Biography

Dagmara Jack was born on February 28th,1984 in Katowice (Poland).

She has started her education on piano when she was 4 years old.
At the age of 13 she won First Prize at the National Composers' Competition for a work dedicated to Pope John Paul II.
In 2000 she received the Grand Prix at the Eighth National Composers' Competition `Crescendo` in Tarnów for her work "Wind-Oak-Quintet".

In 2001 she received the First Prize and the Prize for the Young Composer on International Electroacoustic Music Competition MUSICA NOVA 2001 in Prague.

She participated in courses for young composers in Jelenia Góra ,in Cracow- IRCAM course `Acanthes` (2000), Summer Academy of music and Seminar for Composers in Brussels organized by Ictus Ensemble.
Masterclasses with Jonathan Harvey ,Thierry De Mey,Stanislaw Moryto,Marek Stachowski,Tristan Murail, Thomas Kessler,Aleksander Lason.

In 2001/2002 she was studying with Hanspeter Kyburz and Roland Moser in Academy of Music in Basel, later with Enno Poppe in Berlin.
Her music was performed on many international contemporary music festivals. for example " Warsaw Autumn" , Silesian Days of Contemporary Music,New Music Forum (Warsaw) and in concerts in Germany,Poland, Canada, Finland, Italy and England.

Her music was broadcasted by Radio Deutschland (Germany), Radio Klassik and Co-op Radio Vancouver.
She has received many scholarschips, for example from Thyll - Dürr Foundation (Zürich), Lyra Foundation (Zürich) and Oscar & Vera Ritter Stiftung (Hamburg).

She is the youngest member of the Polish Composers' Union.