Aleksandra Jopek is a Polish violinist and performer based in Bern, whose work bridges classical performance and contemporary experimentation. She graduated with a Master Performance degree from the Hochschule der Künste Bern, studying with Bartłomiej Nizioł, and later specialized in Contemporary Music under Jonian Ilias Kadesha while continuing with Bartłomiej Nizioł. She is currently pursuing the Master Pedagogy program at HKB, expanding her artistic and educational practice.
Aleksandra began playing the violin at the age of seven and made her solo debut in 2017 with the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic in Olsztyn, Poland. During her Bachelor’s studies at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in Mariusz Patyra’s violin class, she served as concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra - a role she now continues with the University Orchestra Bern.
In addition to her orchestral leadership, she performs as a soloist, including appearances at the Fleckl Festival Bern 2025 with Orchester KOMP.ART. and uncoming edition in 2026. She also collaborates with various orchestras across Switzerland and gained orchestral experience as a guest violinist with the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra between 2020 and 2022.
Her passion for contemporary music was ignited during an Erasmus exchange at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she encountered the work of IRCAM and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Since then, she has performed and collaborated at festivals and residencies including Lucerne Festival 2024, HKB Playtime Bern, the Boswil Academie für Neue Musik, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2025, working with composers such as Carola Bauckholt, Naomi Pinnock, and Beat Furrer, Rebecca Saunders.
Aleksandra’s artistic practice explores the expanded role of the violin through improvisation, voice, electronics, and movement. She has collaborated during masterclasses with ensembles such as ICTUS, 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.
Her recent co-crearted projects include Mirror of Wounds (2024), supported by the Ammann-Falb Stiftung, and Sans-Visage (2025) - a music-theatre work created with CUT Ensemble for the Nicati Competition.
With her Agma Duo, she received another Ammann-Falb Foundation award for a project combining Luigi Nono’s Hay que caminar with a new sound installation developed with composer Arda Yurdusev.
Her collaborations also include multimedia and performative works by composers Manuel Valverde and Aya Metwalli.
Aleksandra is currently preparing her debut EP, featuring works by Kaija Saariaho, Rebecca Saunders, and Swiss composer Arthur Furer, including the first recording of Furer’s violin piece.
She is co-founder of the Agma Duo and CUT Ensemble, and 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.
SOLO AND CHAMBER MUSIC
I am a violinist whose musical path grows from a strong classical foundation, spanning solo and chamber repertoire from Baroque and romantic masterpieces to contemporary creations. For me, the violin is a living voice, where tradition meets experimentation and each piece unfolds its own world. I enjoy discovering new possibilities of my instrument across genres, exploring textures, gestures, and expressive nuances.
Collaboration lies at the heart of my practice. I especially enjoy working with composers to bring new works to life, while also embracing existing repertoire with attention and care. Whether performing a timeless masterpiece or a piece being heard for the first time, I strive to bring each work vividly to life, blending respect for tradition with curiosity and exploration.
Hauch has no exact translation in English. It is a trace, touch, hint, tinge, soupçon, tang, wisp, or a breath of something.
It implies a suggestion or intimation of the thing: a shadow, an aura, a glimmer hidden beneath the surface.
Hauch is a solo study exploring pianissimo timbral nuances at the top of the lowest violin strings; tracing fragments of melody, drawn on a thread in and out of silence.
Surface, weight and touch of musical performance: the bow drawing the sound out of silence; the slightest differentiation of touch on the string; the expansion of the muscles between the shoulder blades; the player ́s in-breath preceeding the played tone...The fallible physical body behind the sound: feeling the weight of sound, exploring the essence of a timbre.
Written in Iceland by swiss composer Helena Winkelman, Ciaccona draws inspiration from Iceland’s fiery, ice-filled landscapes, evident particularly in its episode displaying flageolets, as well as from Iceland’s legendary hidden inhabitants, the Huldufólk (elves).
In groben Zügen is a chamber work for string quartet and electronics, exploring new colors, resonances, and subtle sonic nuances. This recording was made during the concert concluding our collaboration with the composer herself, Eva Reiter, at HKB in November 2024.
Composed as the second part of Domeniche alla periferia dell’impero, Seconda domenica is a chamber work for four instruments that pays homage to Gérard Grisey. The piece explores rich textures, subtle microtonal shifts, and intricate interplay between instruments, reflecting Romitelli’s signature blend of spectral thinking and expressive intensity. Despite its intimate ensemble, the work unfolds a wide range of colors and sonorities, bridging classical tradition and contemporary experimentation.
This performance of Dvořák’s iconic “Dumky” Trio was recorded at the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, Poland, during my bachelor studies at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music.
The ensemble captures the emotional richness and rhythmic contrasts of the work, blending Slavic folk melancholy (dumka) with expressive spontaneity and poetic dialogue between the instruments.
Aleksandra Jopek – violin
Dominika Chodakowska – cello
Marcin Wieczorek – piano
Agma Duo
Aleksandra Jopek, Marta Lucjan
CREATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
Collaboration lies at the heart of my practice: a space where everyone can contribute ideas, share expertise, and learn from each other. I work closely with composers, experiment with violin techniques, and shape new works through improvisation and research.
My artistic path seeks to build bridges between music, theatre, and performance, exploring subtle connections between sound, movement, and expression.
Somewhere in eastern Europe, an elderly man speaks calmly of a distant planet. He says its name is Asomaljia; that there are no wars there, and its inhabitants live in perfect harmony.
Fragmented images of monuments that evoke a past both distant and utopian intertwine with intimate stories, memories, and sounds, dissolving the boundaries between science fiction, utopia, and memory.
Manuel Valverde - composition and audiovisual editing
Aleksandra Jopek - violin and vocals
Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of mapping as a process in flux, the work seeks to materialize invisible structures of digital power, making tangible the ways in which Big Data reorganizes social, economic, and spatial relations. Parts of the piece are In Situ, resulting from an artistic research and exploration of the city/venue.
Developed collectively, the ensemble began this journey at the Nicati Competition 2025 in Lucerne.
In this video, the artists share insights into the creation process — their methods of collaborative research, improvisation, and sound exploration — and reflect on how Sans-Visage continues to evolve beyond its initial form.
The trailer offers a glimpse into a world where music, movement, and digital poetics meet, tracing the blurred boundaries between presence, data, and disappearance.
A work in progress — a snippet from the closing concert of the Boswil Neue Musik Academy. The music was composed by Aya Metwalli for huntress and string trio.
This performance merges violin, bass clarinet, percussion, and live electronics with text, light, video, and symbolic objects such as red threads and mirrors. Structured in distinct scenes, the work directly challenges stereotypes of non-male bodies in music:
What is expected from a woman on stage? Why is appearance valued over artistic quality? How does the pressure to “be as good as men” shape our experience in a male-dominated field?
Through collective improvisation without a fixed score, each musician contributes equally with her own voice, resisting hierarchies and shaping a safe space for shared expression. The result is a multilayered performance where sound, image, and gesture confront gendered expectations in music while fostering a conscious space of solidarity and togetherness.
A glimpse into our ongoing creative process for Mirror of Wounds. This trailer shares moments of musical and sound research, collective improvisation, and experimentation as we continue developing the performance.
GALLERY
FLECKL FESTIVAL 2025
https://fleckl-festival.com
Photos: Silias Isenmann, Magdalena Laiminger
AGMA DUO “BEYOND NONO” 2025
Beyond Nono started as an idea between Agma Duo and Komo Neko Studio for constructing a conceptual concert experience as an homage to Luigi Nono’s last known composition Hay que caminar (EN: We must walk) which is a violin duo. The excitement behind the idea was that Nono himself was suggesting a spacial performance that involves movement of the musicians as wanderers. We set out to combine this piece with an audiovisual staging that features an installation - Quanta - that leads the audience into Nono’s world in a seamless connection.
Photos: Alice Hoi - Ching Yeung
Photos: Arda Yurdusev
VARIOUS EVENT ARCHIVE
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EVENTS
UPCOMING
10. 01. 26 - Traffic Festival
27. 01. 26 - Arte Frizzante
Französische Kirche, Zeughausgasse 8, 3011 Bern
19:00
01. 02. 26 - Arte Frizzante
Französische Kirche, Zeughausgasse 8, 3011 Bern
17:00
24. 03. 26 - “Sans Visage #2”
HKB Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, Bern, 19:30
10. 05. 26 - Agma Duo
Schlosskonzerte Thun
div. Lokale/Venues in Thun (tba)
29. 08. 26 - Les Jardins Musicaux
17 Uhr
Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel
ARCHIVE
08. 12. 25 - Agma Duo
Weihnachtsfeier des Fachbereichs Musik der HKB,
Ristorante Da Carlo, Effingerstrasse 14, 3011 Bern
18:00 - 20:30
07. 12. 25 - Bach Collegium
Heiliggeistkirche Bern, 9:30, 11:30
Johanneskirche Thun, Konzert: 16:00
03.12. 25 - “Stitch me together” - Music by Ilona Perger
HKB Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, Bern, 19:3002. 12. 25 - Uniorchester Bern
Casino Bern, 19:30
29. 11. 25 - Uniorchester Bern
Jakob Kirche Zurich, 19:30
15. 11. 25 - Arte Frizzante
19.30 Uhr
Heubühne Bienzgut Bern-Bümpliz
16. 11. 25 - Arte Frizzante
17.00 Uhr
Don Bosco Basel
30. 10. 25 - Agma Duo “Beyond Nono”
SEE MEMORIES
8.10.25 - FLECKL FESTIVAL #1
Soloist with Orchester KOMP.ART, member of Impro Large Ensemblehttps://fleckl-festival.com
SEE MEMORIES