Staff

Maestro

Warsaw University of Technology Choir's conductor is Dariusz Zimnicki

He graduated from Vilnius Conservatory (1997) and the Warsaw Academy of Music (2002) – the faculty of choral conducting in R. Zimak's class. In 2009, he got a doctoral degree in arts.

Between 2002 and 2004, Zimnicki has been working in Warsaw Chamber Opera as a assistant conductor. He participated in preparing choral parts of numerous operas and oratorios. Currently, he works at the Warsaw University of Music and holds the position of a lecturer in the Department of Choral Conducting, as well as that of an assistant conductor in both the WUoM Mixed Choir and the departmental vocal ensemble.

Since 2004, Zimnicki has been the conductor of two leading choirs in Warsaw – the University of Technology Choir and the Warsaw Archcathedral Choir. Together, they give numerous concerts comprising of both a capella works and vocal-instrumental pieces. Furthermore, he participates in a large number of festivals and concerts, both at home and abroad. Additionaly, he is a co-founder of the Tibi Domine Choir in Warsaw.

Dariusz Zimnicki was granted a Ministry of Culture Scholarship for outstanding scholastic achievements. In 2002, he won the 3^rd prize and the special prize for the interpretation of Kurpian Songs by Karol Szymanowski during the Competition for Choral Conductors in Poznan. Meanwhile, he had his debut as an orchestral conductor performing Beethoven's Coriolan Ouverture during the Gwiazdy promują festival in the Silesian Philharmonic Hall. He participated in numerous conducting and music interpretation mastercourses, in Poland and abroad, including the Masterclasses of Bob Chilcot, Bo Holten and Chifuru Matsubara.

Since 2006, he has been a regional co-ordinator of All-Polish programme Śpiewająca Polska, the aim of which is to promote and develop school choirs. He is also involved in organising a great number concerts and choir festivals.

Vocal education

Joanna Maria Morawska – coloratura soprano

Joanna Maria Morawska was born in 1978 . She received her first music education by attending piano and flute lessons. In 2004 she graduated with distinction from Vocal Faculty of Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw under prof. Urszula Trawińska – Moroz . After the graduation she continued to master her vocal abilities during postgraduate studies at the Lutosławski Conservatory in Cracow under Arsen Szkurhan. Furthermore she graduated with distinction from Faculty of Journalism at Warsaw University. (2002). In 2005 she was granted the scholarship from the Ministry of Culture. Apart from academic training she participated in vocal courses run by: Alberto Zedda, Rockwell Blake, Lioba Braun ( the Bach Academy of Music), Ursula Filge, Halina Łukomska, Urszula Kryger, Ryszard Karczykowski, Janusz Niziołek, Donald Maxwell and Jagna Sokorska - Kwika. She cooperates with Silesian Opera in Bytom an Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz ( part of Queen of the Night in “Die Zauberflöte”). She gives vocal lessons for conductors within the project “Singing Poland” run by National Centre of Culture. Until 2009 she was also running a vocal class in one of Warsaw Secondary Schools of Music. Since August 2008 she works as a voice production teacher for Warsaw University of Technology Academic Choir She cooperated and cooperates with such composers and musicians as: Augustyn Bloch, Andrzej Kurylewicz, Dominik Zabłocki and Michał Sławecki. In recent years she gave numerous concerts at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music,Warsaw Music Society, as well as in churches all over Poland and abroad, especially in Austria and England. Her repertoire consists above all of great vocal – instrumental works, oratorical works, masses, motets, operas and also songs accompanied by the piano.


Secretariat
Ewa Giedyk

Choir's council
Katarzyna Kramek-Romanowska
Tomasz Frydrych

Magdalena Zlot
Piotr Romanowski

Kamil Lisowski

Koncerty

Cytaty z próby

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