Barbara Kaszuba was born in Poznah in 1983 and graduated from the H. Wieniawski Grammar and Secondary Music School in Poznah in the violin class of Mirostew Bocek (2002) and the F. Chopin State Secondary Music School in the piano class of Barbara Jarantowska (2003). At present she is a student of the I.J.Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznah in the composition class of Professor Grazyna Pstrokohska-Nawratil. She has improvised and composed since she was six; she has consulted the professors: Andrzej Koszewski, Marek Stachowski and Romuald Twardowski about her work.
Barbara Kaszuba has taken part in numerous composition competitions winning high prizes and honourable mentions. Her music has already been performed at many festivals including the “Poznah Music Spring”, the “Warsaw Autumn” and the “Musica Polonica Nova” and concerts in Poland and abroad (Germany, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands and Lithuania) and on radio and TV. As an instrumentalist she was a finalist (violin) at the 20th-century Music Competition for Young Performers at Radziejowice (1999, 2001), and - in the category of chamber ensembles (violin and accordion) - gained 1st prizes at festivals and competitions: international ones - in Sanok (2000) and Poprad, Slovakia (2003), and all-Polish ones at Mtewa (2001, 2002) as well as 2nd prizes at Castelfi-dardo, Italy (2001) and Klingenthal in Germany (2002). She was also awarded a special prize of the European Union of Music Competition for Youth - EMCY Art for Music Prize in Poprad (2003). Barbara Kaszuba is a scholarship holder of the Business and Professional Women's Club in Poznah, the Home Foundation for Children and the Ministry of Culture. Her works are published by Astra in Lodz, Fonola in Warsaw, Chiola Music Press in Italy and PWM Edition in Cracow.