a multi-flautist, initiator of cultural events, improvised, theatre and film music creator. She specialises in playing period transverse flutes. The artist develops projects situating the traverso flute and period instruments in various contemporary contexts. Maja also plays unorthodox flutes, including instruments created by herself (perfect kisser, paper flutes).
A co-founder and musician of the period instrument ensemble Silva Rerum arte. She also curates the Cappella Angelica festival at the St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk, which presents early, new and improvised music featuring period instruments.
She develops her own projects with artists representing various fields of art – dancers, sculptors, theatre directors and actors and other musicians. Maja also commissions new pieces and performs world premieres of contemporary compositions for baroque flute.
She has played at festivals in the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Gdańsk, Warsaw, Krakow, Wrocław, Poznań and many others. The flautist has recorded several albums featuring original, early, folk and contemporary music.
She graduated from the Conservatory van Amsterdam, the Academy of Music in Krakow, the Academy of Music in Łódź and the Jagiellonian University. Currently, she lectures at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.