Look Around
Recommended by Jan Schumacher 2024
Look Around is a piece for four-part mixed choir by the Polish composer and arranger Zuzanna Koziej. The work has an important message: Koziej urges us to pause, heighten our awareness, and enjoy the beauty of the world instead of sinking into our daily routines and rushing through life. Look Around invites the listener to stop, reflect, and make a change – here and now! Who could disagree with that?
In the audio sample, you can hear a live recording of the world premiere on August 25, 2024, performed by the LandesJugendChor Rheinland Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate State Youth Choir), sponsored by the Landesmusikrat Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate State Music Council).
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Composer
Zuzanna Koziej
| 1994Zuzanna Koziej is a Polish composer and arranger. A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, she continued her studies at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" in Turin, Italy. She has had the opportunity to learn from composers such as Bob Chilcott, Ko Matsushita, "Ãriks Ešenvalds, and Pawe"n "Nukaszewski.
She is a recipient of the Young Poland scholarship awarded by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2021) and has won numerous awards in international composition competitions. Her works are published by Oxford University Press and ICOT Edition.
Zuzanna Koziej has released two monographic albums: Music of Trust and Sway, Oh Sway—both nominated for the Fryderyk Award, Poland’s highest phonographic prize. Her compositions have also been featured on other recordings; notably, The Lamb, which won the international composition competition The Lamb’s Journey in the United States in 2022, was recorded by Ensemble Altera and released on an album of the same title in 2024.
Her music is performed internationally—in the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ecuador, Lithuania, Latvia, and beyond—often as part of intercultural exchange projects. She is dedicated to creating music that connects, educates, and opens new perspectives for both performers and listeners.
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Songwriter / Librettist
Zuzanna Koziej
| 1994Zuzanna Koziej is a Polish composer and arranger. A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, she continued her studies at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" in Turin, Italy. She has had the opportunity to learn from composers such as Bob Chilcott, Ko Matsushita, "Ãriks Ešenvalds, and Pawe"n "Nukaszewski.
She is a recipient of the Young Poland scholarship awarded by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2021) and has won numerous awards in international composition competitions. Her works are published by Oxford University Press and ICOT Edition.
Zuzanna Koziej has released two monographic albums: Music of Trust and Sway, Oh Sway—both nominated for the Fryderyk Award, Poland’s highest phonographic prize. Her compositions have also been featured on other recordings; notably, The Lamb, which won the international composition competition The Lamb’s Journey in the United States in 2022, was recorded by Ensemble Altera and released on an album of the same title in 2024.
Her music is performed internationally—in the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ecuador, Lithuania, Latvia, and beyond—often as part of intercultural exchange projects. She is dedicated to creating music that connects, educates, and opens new perspectives for both performers and listeners.
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