MARZENA MAJCHER - Polish composer of music for films & contemporary classical music, guitarist. She is the author of music for over 50 films - feature films, documentaries, animated films and several TV series. She received an award for the music to the film Amateurs at the 10th Grand Prix Komeda
Film Festival (2021). Winner of the International Composition Competition “Amadeus Composition Award” (Vienna, Austria, 2023) and many prestigious awards in Geneva, Paris and Boston, for her innovative compositions of contemporary music inspired by the world of science. Her music for orchestra were performed at the Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio S1 of Polish Radio in Warsaw.              

She graduated from the Composition Studies at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw under the direction of Krzysztof Knittel and the Instrumental Department - Classical Guitar at the Academy of Music in Lodz.

She has released several albums with her music, including: "Music from the film Amateurs" (Requiem Records, 2022),TransMitter (Audio Art Festival, 2020), "Chemistry of Love" (Requiem Records, 2019).

She creates music for orchestra, string quartets, chamber ensembles, electronic and ambient music. She uses the latest technologies in music, including: interactive devices designed especially for her: Exformer and Danceformer (thanks to which you can control the music with hand movements).

She has collaborated internationally with directors of art cinema: Kim Hee-Jung, Radim Špaček, Peter Vogt. She has collaborated many times with famous Polish directors - Iwona Siekierzynska, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, Mariusz Wilczynski, Grzegorz Krolikiewicz, Krzysztof Kasior, Małgorzata Lupina, Leszek Madzik.

She gives concerts. Her compositions were presented at the Contemporary Music Festival "36th Warsaw Music Encounters Festival", 30th Audio Art Festival (Cracow), Music Festival Ecos Urbanos (Mexico, Mexico City), 36th Warsaw Music Encounters Festival, 14th International Festival of Contemporary Music and Visual Arts (Bydgoszcz), Audio Stage Festival (Warsaw), OFF Film Festival Camera Plus (Cracow), Museum of Modern Art (New York).

In film music, she often connection acoustic instruments with electronics and with her own prepared sounds. Her compositions are very organic, have their own original style and are in synergy with the film image.

Her recognizable works are music for award-winning films
feature films:
- "Where would you like to go?" - dir. Kim Hee-Jung. The world premiere at the 24th JEONJU International Film Festival (South Korea, Jeonju, 2023)
- "Amateurs" - dir. Iwona Siekierzynska, Grand Prize at the International Festival of Independent Cinema "Off Camera" in Krakow (2021),
"Hollywood Eagle Award" at the Polish Film Festival - Los Angeles, USA (2021).
- "A French Woman" - dir. Kim Hee-Jung. The world premiere at the San Diego Film Festival in the USA (2019)
- "Hanoi - Warsaw" - Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, etc. European Film Award
(Tallinn, 2010), Grand Prix at the Festival de Cine de Alcalá de
Henares, Spain (Madrid, 2010)

documentaries:
- "Fury" - dir. Krzysztof Kasior, awarded at the Slamdance Film Festival  (USA, 2021)                                                                   
- "Himilsbach, truths, lies, black holes" - dir. Małgorzata Lupina and Stanislaw Manturzewski, awarded the Main Prize - 'Golden Lajkonik' at the Cracow Film Festival (2002)

animated films:

- 11 films by Mariusz Wilczyński
- First TVP Culture Setting (2005-2008), presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Her latest compositions of contemporary music:
- "DNA Code Music" - for string quartet (The world premiere - "Culture Ferry", Warsaw 2023)
- "Other Dimensions" - electroacoustic music (he world premiere - 31th Audio Art Festival, Cracow (2023)
- "The Code of Life" - performed by the Sinfonia Viva Orchestra at the Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio S1 of Polish Radio at the 36th Warsaw Music Encounters Festival. (2022).
- "TransLocation" - a series of compositions inspired by the quantum theory of the Multiverse, created by Hugh Everett. The world premiere took place at the Music Festival Ecos Urbanos in Mexico (Mexico City, 2021).

AWARDS:
Winner of the International Composition Competition “Amadeus Composition Award” (Vienna, Austria, 2023).
Award at the "10th Komeda Grand Prix Komeda Film Festival" for the best music to the film "Amateurs"(Poland, 2021)
The MUSE-IC project (France, Paris 2018).
Seconds Concert Series (USA, Boston 2017) Tesla Quartet Call for Scores 2017 (USA, Quincy).
For the album Budyń - "Musical Event of 2011" at the Festival Contemporary Art Re: wizje_5 (Warsaw 2011).
For the best music for the film "Circles" at the 3rd Artists Festival (2008).
For the album "What beautiful view" at the 4th Artists Festival (2010).
For the best music for the movie "The pown shop" on TVP Kultura (2006). International Classical Guitar and Composition (Geneve, 2004)

DISCOGRAPHY:
2022 Music from the film Amateurs - publisher - Requiem Records - Lydian
2020 TransMission, publisher - Audio Art Festival,
2019 CHEMISTRY OF LOVE, publisher - Requiem Records - Opus Series
2011 PUDDING, publisher - Moema
2010 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL VIEW, publisher - Kineza
2008 AND WHAT IT WILL BE, publisher - Kineza

IMPORTANT CONCERTS:
IX Music Festival Ecos Urbanos, Mexico, Mexico City (2023)
31th Audio Art Festival, Cracow (2023)
Contemporary Music Festival "36th Warsaw Music Encountersl"(2022)
30th Audio Art Festival, Cracow (2022)
VII Music Festival Ecos Urbanos, Mexico, Mexico City (2021)
Festival Audio Stage (Warsaw 2020)
VI Music Festival Ecos Urbanos, Mexico, Mexico City (2020)
27. Audio Art Festival, Cracow (2019)
I NeoConcept, Gdansk, (2019)
Arts and Culture Center in Konin (2019)
Awards Gala PSC, Warsaw (2019)
IV Music Festival Ecos Urbanos, Mexico, Mexico city (2018)
14th International Festival of Contemporary Music and Visual Arts, Bydgoszcz (2018),
4th Cracow Accordion Festival (2018)
Planetarium of the Copernicus Science Institute (Warsaw 2017)
Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (2018, 2017, 2016)
III Music Festival Ecos Urbanos, Mexico, Mexico city (2017)
XXVI International Festival of Nature Films, Łódź (2015) 
OFF Camera Plus Film Festival (Krakow 2014)
Festival of Contemporary Art Revisions_5, where her futuristic album was the best musical projects of the 'Event of the Year 2011' (Warsaw 2011)
TVP Culture - 'live music' for Charlie Chaplin's film (2007)

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