Linda Jankowska is a musician whose practice orbits around long-term collaborations and multifaceted modes of working with sound that stretch her limitations. Primarily a violinist, she works at an intersection of instrumental performance, improvisation, and composition.Together with Katherine Young they co-created the site-specific installation and co-composition ‘boundarymind’, co-produced with ESS and 6018th North, which premiered in Chicago in June 2022. Linda is a founding member and co-artistic director of Distractfold Ensemble. She has performed internationally at various festivals both as a chamber musician and soloists. She recorded for Carrier Records, Kairos, Another Timbre and dFolds. 

Concert | Linda Jankowska, Mark Tatlow & Nina De Heney   

Violinist Linda Jankowska performs Esaias Järnegard’s Insula. Pharos. A world premiere that leads into the fifth meditation of the pilgrim. This time on the word unhurriedness. Nina De Heney’s double bass takes over where Haydn’s notes end.

Concert| Linda Jankowska, Mark Tatlow   

The sixth pilgrim word is framed by Linda Jankowska’s Parable of the Prize of Heaven.   

Parable of the Prize of Heaven (2024)
for performer, fixed media, objects, electronics and video 25 min  

Parable of the Prize of Heaven follows a three-part trajectory of a set of biomythographic narratives derived from my upbringing in a Catholic culture. Field recordings of church spaces, organs, reverberating footsteps and glass, are merged with vibrating transducers on cymbals, friends reading quotes from Octavia Butler and Søren Kierkegaard, and circuit-bent Casios to create a non-linear sonic journey through locations,  people, relationships and existential ideology. The piece is both a reflection and a question asked about the nature of the organisation of life through religion.