Monika Dalach Sayers is a composer and multimedia artist based in London, UK, with a specialist background in contemporary classical music and sound art. 

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Her work draws on a wide range of pop-culture influences and engages with pressing social and environmental issues, such as pollution and plastic waste. Driven by conceptual research and sonic experimentation, she develops cutting-edge, thought-provoking projects. Her compositional practice blends contemporary electronic textures with traditional ensemble writing, spanning acoustic, electroacoustic, and electronic music. In her artistic projects, she explores hybrid forms of musical expression, working across art genres and incorporating text and video. Her diverse interests intersect in the fields of contemporary music, theatre, literature, and video art, and her compositions often interweave elements from each. Monika aims to create work that is innovative, engaging, and forward-thinking. 

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In 2024, she was appointed to the London Symphony Orchestra Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers' Scheme. She recently composed the score for The New Real, a political play by David Edgar produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Headlong Theatre. Monika completed a Master's in Classical Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she studied composition with Professor Malcolm Singer and dramatic writing with Dr Stephen Plaice. In 2015, she graduated from the Academy of Music in Lodz with a Bachelor's degree in Classical Composition, and from The University of Lodz with a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing & Cultural Studies. She held a Junior Artist Fellowship in Classical Composition and Dramatic Writing at the Guildhall School for two consecutive years (2017/2018 and 2018/2019). She also completed the Opera Making and Writing course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in association with the Royal Opera House (2019) and the Experimental Video and Moving Image course at London College and Communication (2020).

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Monika has participated in leading contemporary music programmes, including Next Generation at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in Germany (2017), the International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt (2018), and the International Summer Courses for Composers Synthetis in Radziejowice, Poland (2015, 2016). She has taken part in masterclasses with Alexander Schubert, Johannes Kreidler, Mark Andre, Ashley Fure, Stefan Prins, Marco Stroppa, Ramon Lazkano, Julian Anderson, Agata Zubel, and Zygmunt Krauze.

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Monika Dalach has written music for ensembles including DECODER Ensemble (Germany), Plus-Minus Ensemble (UK), EXAUDI Ensemble (UK), Workers Union Ensemble (UK), Trio Layers (Poland), Kompopolex (Poland), TWOgether Duo (Poland). She has also collaborated with workshOPERA on the London Transport Museum project SoundTracks, and wrote the original score for 9.81, an interdisciplinary live dance performance that premiered in 2015 at Szwalnia Theatre in Łódź.

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Her music has been performed and commissioned by festivals such as Heroines of Sound (Germany), Festival Ensemble(s) (France), Music Current (Ireland), Hamburg International Music Festival (Germany), Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland), New Music Dublin (Ireland), Sound Festival (Scotland), Musica Electronica Nova (Poland), Sacrum Profanum (Poland), International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt (Germany), Musica Privata Festival (Poland), Musica Moderna, including venues such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall London, The National Concert Hall in Dublin, The Warsaw Philharmonic, The National Forum of Music (NFM) in Wrocław, Poland, The Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Lodz, The Place London, London Transport Museum, Milton Court Concert Hall, City University in London, Collegium Novum/the Jagiellonian University in Crakow and Indiana University.

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Her music has also been featured on the BBC Radio 3 New Music Show.

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Her project Kobiety Są | Women Are was supported by the President of the City of Łódź Artistic Scholarship (2021). In 2018, she received the Marshal of the City of Łódź Artistic Scholarship in Composition. As a student, she was awarded the Witold Lutosławski Scholarship for study abroad (2016) and the Guildhall School’s Tracy Chadwell Prize (2017). She won the Pulse of Literature Festival Prize for the dramatic play Dinner for Two (2015) and was a finalist in the USA International Composition Contest for a solo harp piece (2016). Additional awards include: 1st Prize in the Little Symphony Competition (Academy of Music in Łódź, 2014) for Pandora; 2nd Prize in the 56th Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers (2015); and 3rd Prize in the National Competition for Electroacoustic Composition organized by the Oskar Kolberg Philharmonic in Kielce (2014).