Aleksandra Jopek is a violinist and performer based in Bern, exploring the violin beyond its traditional role. Her work combines classical roots with improvisation, electronics, voice, and movement, creating performances that are collaborative, experimental, and deeply personal.
Her passion for contemporary music was sparked during an Erasmus exchange at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she discovered the work of IRCAM and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Since then, she has performed at festivals and residencies including Lucerne Festival 2024, the Boswil Akademie für Neue Musik, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2025, working with composers such as Carola Bauckholt, Naomi Pinnock, Beat Furrer, and Rebecca Saunders.
She has collaborated during masterclasses with ensembles such as ICTUS Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, and Ensemble Intercontemporain during Stauffer Academy in Cremona.
She is particularly dedicated to working with young composers on new works that integrate instrumental and performative elements, among others on HKB Playtime Bern Festival.
Aleksandra performs as a soloist and chamber musician, with recent appearances at the Fleckl Festival Bern 2025 with Orchester KOMP.ART. and in its upcoming 2026 edition.
She is co-founder of the Agma Duo and CUT Ensemble, and collaborates with various orchestras across Switzerland. Between 2020 and 2022, she was a frequent guest violinist with the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra.
Her recent co-created projects include Mirror of Wounds (2024), supported by the Ammann-Falb Stiftung, and Sans-Visage (2025) - a music-theatre work developed with CUT Ensemble for the Nicati Competition.
With Agma Duo, she received another Ammann-Falb Foundation award for a project combining Luigi Nono’s Hay que caminar with a new sound installation by Arda Yurdusev.
She began playing the violin at the age of seven and made her solo debut in 2017 with the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic in Olsztyn, Poland.
She holds a Master of Arts degree from the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music (Mariusz Patyra’s violin class), and a Master of Performance from the Hochschule der Künste Bern (Bartłomiej Nizioł’s violin class). Later, she specialized in Contemporary Music at HKB with Jonian Ilias Kadesha and Nizioł. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Pedagogy at HKB, expanding her artistic voice through both performance and education.
Her upcoming debut EP features works by Kaija Saariaho, Rebecca Saunders, and Swiss composer Arthur Furer, including the first recording of Furer’s violin piece.
Aleksandra is a recipient of several awards and scholarships, including the Nicati de Luze Foundation (2023–2024), the Ammann-Falb Stiftung (2023–2024), and the Marian und Zofia Kirsch Stiftung.