Małgorzata Podzielny
Artistic Director of the NFM Boys’ Choir and NFM Girls’ Choir

Conductor, music theorist, and professor of musical arts. She works for the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where she leads a conducting class and teaches courses on the methodology and practice of working with children’s choirs; since 2024, she has headed the Department of Music Education there.

She is the author of the book Shaping the Artistic Attitude of the Young Chorister (2014) and the editor of two volumes titled Working with a Children’s Choir (2019, 2023), proceedings from the international and national academic conferences of the same name, for which she serves as academic director, as well as the editor of the collection Children Sing! Volume 1: 2- and 3-part pieces for a cappella children’s choir (2025).

For twenty years, she led the Con Brio Choir at the Grażyna Bacewicz Primary Music School in Wrocław and the Rondo Vocal Ensemble. With the latter, she twice won the Stefan Stuligrosz Grand Prix of Polish Choral Art in Poznań (2019, 2022). She has directed the NFM Boys’ Choir since 2009 and the NFM Girls’ Choir since 2022. These ensembles have won over 150 awards in ca. 100 national and international competitions. She serves on the juries of national and international choral competitions and conducts numerous workshops and seminars on choral music, with a particular focus on working with children’s and youth choirs. She has received over fifty individual awards, including the “Meritorious for Polish Culture” badge, the Bronze and Silver Crosses of Merit, the Second-Class Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and the 2023 Wrocław Arts Prize in the Classical Music category.

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