Joanna Habich

Joanna Habich is a 16-year-old violinist, a student of the Jadwiga Kaliszewska Secondary Music School in Poznań in the class of Professor Marcin Baranowski.

She started learning to play the violin as a seven-year-old, and already at the age of 11, she debuted as a soloist with the Zielona Góra Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in G minor.

Since 2018, she has received scholarships from the Marshall of the Lubuskie Voivodeship and the National Fund for Children. In 2022, she was awarded the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and in 2023 she was the winner of the prestigious ‘Young Poland’ scholarship programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2024, she qualified for and participated in the prestigious Morningside Music Bridge International Scholarship Programme in Boston, USA.

Joanna is the laureate of more than 60 music competitions, including 24 international ones, where she has won, among others: Grand Prix in Lublin, Warsaw and Rome and 1st place in Poznań, Płock, Belgrade, Moscow, London, Vienna, Salzburg and Berlin. She has also performed, among others: in the Concert Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Ballroom of the Castle in Łańcut, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Old Town Hall in Gdańsk, the Grosser Saal Mozarteum in Salzburg, the European Krzysztof Penderecki Music Centre, as well as with the Chamber Orchestra of the Pomeranian Philharmonic in the Artus Court in Toruń.

Joanna is successfully developing as a chamber musician - together with a clarinetist, she won first prize in the 3rd National Chamber Music Competition ‘Duetomania Młodych’ in Poznań. She also feels perfectly at home in the pop music repertoire - in 2023 she was selected for Orchestra4Young under the direction of Adam Sztaba and was invited to be the concertmaster of this project.