Katarzyna Hejnowicz was born on 21 March 2001. She started to learn the violin at the age of 6 at the Primary and Secondary Music School in Zielona Gora, where her teacher was Iwona Wasiak MA. Since September 2017, she has been a student of Prof. Marcin Baranowski and Joanna Kreft MA at the Jadwiga Kaliszewska Secondary Music School in Poznan.

She was awarded prizes in numerous violin competitions, including but not limited to:

  • 4th Prize at the Wielkopolska Performing Competition, Poznan 2012
  • 1st Prize at the Stanislaw Hajzer J. S. Bach Regional Competition, Zielona Gora 2012
  • 1st Prize at the 6th Violin Tournament of Friendship, Zagan 2012
  • Honourable Mention – “Young Paganini” International Violin Competition, Legnica 2013
  • 1st Prize at the 6th All-Polish Violin Competition “Oskar Rieding”, Master of Composing Music for Children”, Warsaw 2013
  • 4th Prize at the Wielkopolska Performing Competition, Poznan 2013
  • Grand Prix at the Zarskie String Meetings, Zary 2013
  • Honourable Mention at the Stanislaw Hajzer J. S. Bach All-Polish Competition, Zielona Gora 2013
  • Honourable Mention at the International Vivaldi Violin Competition, Legnica 2013
  • 2nd Prize at the J. S. Bach Regional Competition, Zielona Gora 2014
  • 3rd Prize at the Lubuskie Violin Meetings, Zielona Gora 2014
  • 2nd Prize at the Cieszynski International Violin Competition, Cieszyn 2014
  • 1st Prize at the Lubuskie Violin Meetings, Zielona Gora 2015
  • 2nd Prize at the Stanislaw Hajzer J. S. Bach All-Polish Competition, Zielona Gora 2015
  • Honourable Mention – Jadwiga Kaliszewska All-Polish Violin Competition, Poznan 2016
  • 3rd Prize at the Lubuskie Violin Meetings, Zielona Gora 2016
  • 2nd Prize at the J. S. Bach Regional Competition, Zielona Gora 2016
  • Honourable Mention at the “Young Paganini” International Violin Competition, Legnica 2017
  • 3rd Prize at the All-Polish Competition “Violin Talents”, Poznan 2017
  • 2nd Prize at the Lubuskie Violin Meetings, Zielona Gora 2017
  • Honourable Mention at the All-Polish Violin Competition Aleksandra Januszajtis In Memoriam, Gdańsk 2017
  • Grand – Prix Jadwiga Kaliszewska All-Polish Violin Competition, Poznan 2018
  • 3rd Prize – All-Polish Violin Competition, Rybnik 2018
  • 2nd Prize – All-Polish Violin Competition, Cieszyn 2018
  • Finalist – 3rd All-Polish Musical Personality Competition ATMA, Zakopane 2018
  • 2nd Prize at the International Competition for String Instruments in Elblag, Poland, 2019

Katarzyna performed with the Zielona Gora Philharmonic Orchestra during the “Polish Masters of Violin” String Festival in 2013 and 2015. She received scholarship of the Marshal of the Lubuskie Province.