NFM Choir

The NFM Choir was formed in 2006 by Andrzej Kosendiak. Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny directed the ensemble from the beginning. Since the 2021/2022 season Lionel Sow has taken over as Artistic Director. The ensemble has quickly earned a strong reputation for its work in several genres, performing a cappella works as well as large-scale oratorios, opera and symphonic compositions. The choir has worked with such renowned conductors as Giovanni Antonini, Bob Chilcott, Iván Fischer, Jacek Kaspszyk, Stephen Layton, James MacMillan, Paul McCreesh, and Krzysztof Penderecki. They have performed more than 300 concerts, among others, at the Barbican Centre and Royal Albert Hall in London, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and the Philharmonie de Paris and Salle Pleyel in Paris.

The NFM Choir has frequently been invited to perform at international festivals such as the BBC Proms, International Ankara Music Festival, Gent Festival van Vlaanderen, Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy, Klarafestival, Serenade! Choral Festival, and Warsaw Autumn. The ensemble has worked with, among others, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Il Giardino Armonico, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR). The core of the ensemble’s activity are world premieres of choral and vocal-instrumental works, including by such composers as K. Penderecki, A. Zubel, R. Panufnik, R. Augustyn, P. Łukaszewski, J. Wolfe, and B. Chilcott.

An important part of the NFM Choir’s discography is a series of recordings with Paul McCreesh released on his Winged Lion label and awarded prestigious awards: BBC Music Magazine Award 2012 in the Technical Excellence category (Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts), Diapason d’Or 2013 Mendelssohn’s Elijah), BBC Music Magazine Choral Award 2014 (Britten’s War Requiem). A cappella works performed by the NFM Choir feature on a disc with music by Bob Chilcott The Seeds of Stars (2012) and on three discs with Polish choral music: Words Painted with Sounds (2012), Folk Love (2014), and De profundis (2016); the latter won Fryderyk Award 2017 in the Album of the Year – Choral Music, Oratorio and Opera category. March 2017 saw the premiere of the album with The Seasons by Haydn, recorded with the participation of the NFM Choir under the baton of Paul McCreesh. 2018 saw the release of the Ubi caritas album, the premiere recording of the original version of Phantoms by Moniuszko (Fryderyk 2019 in the Album of the Year – Choral Music, Oratorio and Opera category) and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, recorded with Giovanni Antonini. In 2019, an album recorded under the baton of Andrzej Kosendiak with works by Marcin Józef Żebrowski was released and later nominated for Fryderyk 2020 in the Album of the Year – Oratorio and Opera Music category.

EnsembleEN Events Chór NFM

Ein Deutsches Requiem
Lionel Sow / NFM Choir
11.06
Sun.
5:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall
Trilogy. Closing of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra and NFM Choir Season
Joseph Swensen / NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra
17.06
Sat.
6:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall
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The Seasons
Giovanni Antonini / Il Giardino Armonico
09.09
Sat.
7:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
The Elements
Andreas Scholl / Wrocław Baroque Orchestra
17.09
Sun.
7:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
United in Song
 
01.10
Sun.
4:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
Requiem
Andrzej Kosendiak / NFM Filharmonia Wrocławska
27.10
Fri.
7:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
Filharmonie Brno
Dennis Russell Davies / NFM Choir
03.11
Fri.
7:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
Sibyl's Prophecies
Lionel Sow / NFM Choir
10.12
Sun.
6:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall
Love Songs
Lutosławski Piano Duo / Chór NFM
28.01
Sun.
6:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall
La tombe de Rameau
French Academy Finale
03.03
Sun.
6:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
Lux perpetua
 
15.03
Fri.
7:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
Songs of Ariel
Martina Batič / NFM Choir
28.04
Sun.
6:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall
Messa da Requiem
Giancarlo Guerrero / Ewa Płonka / NFM Filharmonia Wrocławska
07.06
Fri.
7:00 PM
NFM, Main Hall
Her Voice
Closing of the NFM Choir Season
22.06
Sat.
6:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall

Ensemble Chór NFM - Lionel Sow EN

Lionel Sow / fot. Łukasz Rajchert
Lionel Sow / fot. Łukasz Rajchert
Lionel Sow
Artistic Director of NFM Choir

Since 2011, when Lionel Sow took over running the Orchestre de Paris Chorus, he has developed a major training project in which pedagogy plays a pivotal role. His desire is not only to provide the Orchestre de Paris with a chorus capable of singing the choral repertoire with passion and talent, but also to enable young singers to be trained in a demanding environment. An academy, a chamber choir, a children's choir and a youth choir have been created between 2012 and 2015.

The ensemble
Sopranos

Agata Chodorek, Barbara Jastrząb, Małgorzata Kątnik, Natalia Kiczyńska, Patrycja Kujawa, Monika Michaliszyn, Agnieszka Niezgoda, Joanna Palac, Paulina Rogóż-Migacz, Agnieszka Ryman, Aleksandra Turalska, Violetta Wysocka-Marciniak

Altos

Bianka Maxim, Marta Mączewska, Aleksandra Michniewicz, Ewelina Nawrocka, Agata Ranz, Joanna Rot, Aleksandra Sosna, Ewelina Wojewoda, Ewa Wojtowicz, Magdalena Wolska

Tenors

Jakub Bieszczad, Marcin Belcyr, Marek Belko, Adam Cieślak, Krzysztof Domański, Andrzej Górniak, Jarosław Kawałko, Łukasz Wilda, Marcin Winnicki, Paweł Zdebski

Basses

Maciej Adamczyk, Filip Chudzicki, Dawid Dubec, Marek Fras, Paweł Jan Frasz, Marek Paśko, Jan Pieter, Michał Pytlewski, Piotr Woroniecki, Grzegorz Zajączkowski

Personnel Manager

Aleksandra Turalska

Librarian

Marek Fras

Music of Trust
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny / Chór NFM
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Canticles of Light
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny / Chór NFM
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Światło zimowej nocy
Chór NFM / NFM Orkiestra Leopoldinum / Chór Chłopiecy NFM
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Witold Lutosławski. Opera Omnia 08. Kolędy
Aleksandra Kurzak / Chór NFM / NFM Filharmonia Wrocławska
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Beethoven. Symphony 9
Giovanni Antonini, Kammerorchester Basel, Chór NFM
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Ubi caritas
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De profundis
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Chór NFM
35 zł
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Mendelssohn. Elijah 1846
Paul McCreesh, Chór NFM
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Folk Love. Miłość na ludowo
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Chór NFM
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Haydn. The Seasons 1801
Paul McCreesh, Chór NFM, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa
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Witold Lutosławski | Opera Omnia 05
Jacek Kaspszyk, NFM Filharmonia Wrocławska
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Marcin Józef Żebrowski
Andrzej Kosendiak / Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa
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Stanisław Moniuszko. Widma
Andrzej Kosendiak, Chór NFM, Chór Chłopięcy NFM, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa
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Słowa dźwiękiem malowane
Chór NFM
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NFM Wrocław Philharmonic
NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra
Wrocław Baroque Orchestra
Wrocław Baroque Ensemble
West Side Sinfonietta
NFM Boys' Choir
Lutosławski Quartet
LutosAir Quintet
Polish Cello Quartet
NFM Ensemble
NFM Leopoldinum String Trio

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