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Special concerts
Polish Christmas Eves
20.12.2017
Wed.
7:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
Programme:

Barbara Wachowicz – Polish Christmas Eves 

Performers:

Barbara Wachowicz – screenplay, direction and host
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny – conductor
Actors from Warsaw and Wrocław
NFM Choir
NFM Boys' Choir
Małgorzata Podzielny – artistic director

Venue:
NFM, Main Hall
plac Wolności 1, 50-071 Wrocław
Tickets:
from 10 to 50 zł

Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny was born on March 24, 1976, in Głubczyce. She graduated from the University of Wrocław in 2000 with a degree in biology. That year, she founded the Kameralny Chór Akademii Medycznej (Medici Cantantes Choir at the Medical University of Wrocław).  In 2004, she received a diploma from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where she studied Music Education and was awarded a diploma in 2005 from the Vocal Department. During this time, she was honoured with the first prize in the National Contest for Choir Conductors. In 2006, she completed the Postgraduate Voice Production and Training Programme at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. Since June 2006, Franków-Żelazny has been the artistic director of the National Forum of Music Choir. In 2008, she was awarded a special prize for conductors from the 39th Legnica Cantat National Choir Contest. Franków-Żelazny became the head of Polish National Youth Choir, which she also founded, in 2013. She completed course work at the Academy of Culture Leaders at the Economic University of Kraków, in 2014 and was distinguished with the Gloria Artis Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture. The following January, she was named the programme director of the Choral Academy of the National Forum of Music. In 2016, Franków-Żelazny was a music curator for the year that Wrocław served as the European Capital of Culture. The album DE PROFUNDIS – Polish Psalms of the 20th and 21st Century with the NMF Choir under her direction was awarded the Fryderyk prize for the best choral, oratorio and orchestra music, 2017. She currently works as an Associate Professor at the Academy of Music in Wrocław.

Małgorzata Podzielny is a graduate of the Music Education Department in conducting, under professor Maria Oraczewska-Skorek, as well as the Composition, Conducting, Music Theory and Music Therapy Department of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. She completed her Postgraduate studies for Choirmasters in Bydgoszcz and is a grant holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Since September 2002, she has been conducting the ‘Con Brio’ Choir, String Orchestra and chamber ensembles at the Grażyna Bacewicz Primary Music School, in Wrocław. She currently holds the title of Artistic Director of the Vocal Ensemble ‘Rondo’ in Wrocław. For four years she has served as the deputy director of the Sacred Music School at the Theology Department of Opole University and as a lecturer at the Music Education Department of the Wrocław Music Academy. Additionally, Podzielny participates at workshops and seminars as a guest lecturer on the issue of voice emission in boys’ chorus.

Barbara Marta Wachowicz-Napiórkowska, was born May 18, 1937, in Warsaw. She is a Polish writer, author of biographies of great Poles, photographer, screenwriter and publicist. She graduated from the Department of Journalism at the University of Warsaw, as well as the Department of Film History and Theory at the Lodz State Higher School of Theater and Film. The author of tales about the life, creativity, love and mystery of a great Poles, her book Polish Christmas Eve. Adam Mickiewicz was adapted for the stage in 1988.

Wachowicz is a member of the Polish Writers Association and ZAiKS. In 2012, during the celebrations of the 68th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, she was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, "for outstanding merits in scientific and educational work, for her achievements in creative work." Her other awards include the Silver Asa, Golden Microphone, and the title of Polish Speaker of the Vox Populi, which she received in 2001, from the Polonia Mater Nostra Est Medal for, "exceptional gift of transferring youth treasures of national heritage." She was honoured by the Order of Smile on July 31, 2006, and has also received Honorary Citizenship of the capital of Warsaw.

 

 

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