After reviewing the recommendation of the Chapter, which evaluated the applications submitted this year, the president of Ełk decided to grant 7 artistic scholarships. Fellows represent the following fields: music, singing, visual arts and singing. The President presented the scholarships today In the Ełk Town Hall 7 people. The total value of scholarships for 2023 is 37 thousand PLN

The scholarship is intended for people particularly talented people who represent a high artistic level, inhabiting or operating in our city. It recognises the achievements of the candidate, it is also a form of support for further artistic development artists, creators of culture and art.

Scholarship holders in 2023:

1. Filip Popielarz (category – music) – film expert and musician, graduate of postgraduate composition studies at the University F. Chopin Music School in Warsaw

2. Jacek Brzoznowski (category – music) – graduate of the Academy Music in the field of symphonic and opera conducting, winner of awards in numerous national and foreign music competitions

3. Katarzyna Marta Szkatuła (category – music) – a talented flutist, she is very successful in Poland and abroad, a student Ignacy Paderewski Music School Complex in Białystok II degree

4. Wanda Sadowska (category – visual arts) – painter, decorator, doctor of sciences humanities, graduate of the University of Warsaw

5. Bartłomiej Śliwiński (category – music) – student secondary school in Ełk, a young musician, plans to study at the Academy Music in Bydgoszcz, direction – jazz drums and stage music

6. Agata Trawczyńska (category – music, singing) – talented vocalist, composes music and writes lyrics to songs performed by themselves

7. Bożena Tarasiewicz (category fine arts) – teacher, entrepreneur, since 2017 also a painter, her works can be found in individual collections, m.in in Poland, Germany and Austria.