Zaneta Rydzewska, laureate of the 2019 Bernd Alois Zimmermann Composition Prize of the City of Cologne, is a composer, improviser and clarinetist. In 2022, she received an award "The Best Young Polish Composer" at the Fryderyki Festival (ZAiKS).

Rydzewska collaborated with Ensemble Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Mivos Quartet, hand werk, Ensemble Garage, Trio Catch, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, electronic ID, United Instruments of Lucilin, Broken Frames Syndycate, The Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Kollektiv3:6Koeln, Chopin University Modern Ensemble, Spółdzielna Muzyczna, Ko-MAT Ensemble, Delirium Ensemble, Kwartludium, Lüneburger Philharmoniker, Molot Ensemble, AKOM Ensemble.

Her works were performed during festivals: Lucerne Festival, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (WDR3), Ultraschall Berlin, Acht Brücken, Warsaw Autumn, Orgel-Mixturen (Deutschlandfunk), Ad libitum, Tampere Biennale, AvantArt in Warsaw, Sacrum Profanum in Cracow, Resounds in Warsaw, Containerklang Cologne, Cluster - Lucca, AvantGarten Liedberg, High Noon Music 2000+ Konstanz, "Eksperymentalne Wtorki" Sinfonia Varsovia, Warszawskie Spotkania Muzyczne.


She studied with Brigitta Muntendorf at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (composition), with Aleksander Kościów and Stanisław Moryto at the Frederic Chopin University of Music (composition and electronic composition) and with Wojciech Mrozek (clarinet). She studied also philosophy at the University of Warsaw (post-graduate studies). She currently teaches electronic music composition and instrumentation at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.


She participated in Luxembourg Composition Academy 2020, Lucerne Festival Academy 2019, Donaueschinger Musiktage "Next Generation" 2015, 2016, 2018. She took part in composition masterclasses of Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann, Simon Steen-Andersen, Enno Poppe, Carola Bauckholt, Matthew Shlomowitz, Michael Beil, Alexander Schubert, Mathias Spahlinger, Marko Nikodijevic.


In her music, she often refers to nature, physics, philosophy, contemporary social problems and interpersonal relationships.


Her scholarships include the Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Cologne, Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s, Young Poland programme, the Marshall of the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, and the Rector of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She has chaired the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers’ Union between 2016 and 2018, and is now a member of its Board.


She has won national and international composers competitions: "The Science of Fiction" in 2020 (IAM / Klangforum Wien), II International Composition Competition Patri Patrie (2014), Composition Competition "... when I think Berio ..." in Wroclaw (2015), International Composition Competition AKOM Ensemble in Rotterdam (2016), Zygmunt Mycielski Composition Competition in Warsaw (2016), III Marek Stachowski Composition Competition in Cracow (2018).