Joanna Borowska-Isser
Joanna Borowska-Isser (born October 10, 1959 in Warsaw ) is a Polish - Austrian chamber singer ( soprano ), music teacher and university professor for singing .
Career
Borowska-Isser studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University for Music in Warsaw with Ada Sari , and after graduating with a Mag. Art. in 1980 she worked in the opera studio of the Vienna State Opera until 1982 .
From 1982 to 1993 she was a soloist at the Vienna State Opera and made guest appearances at international opera houses, where she performed with well-known conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Christoph von Dohnányi , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Herbert von Karajan , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Georges Prêtre , Horst Stein or Sir Georg Solti worked together.
From 1993 she worked as a freelance artist at opera and concert events in Europe, North and South America and Japan. Engagements have taken her to Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bonn, Mannheim, Pittsburgh, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Seoul, Zurich, Bern, St. Gallen, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Toulouse, Rome and Florence. The singer has also appeared at various festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival , the Bregenz Festival , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival in Florence , the Vienna Festival , the Carinthian Summer and Wratislavia Cantans in Wroclaw .
Joanna Borowska-Isser lives in Graz , where she has been a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts since 2001 . She endeavored to pass on her stage experience and promote young talents in singing lessons. In 2017 she retired.
Repertoire (selection)
- Marzelline in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Iphigénie in Iphigénie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Nedda in Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Pamina in The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ilia in Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Mimi in La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
- Marie in The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana
- The fifth maid in Elektra by Richard Strauss
- Gerhilde in Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
- Clarissa in The Three Pintos by Carl Maria von Weber
Awards
- 1990: Professional title "Chamber singer"
- 1998: Knight's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland
literature
- Piotr Szalsza : Joanna Borowska-Isser. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
Web links
- Joanna Borowska-Isser ( Memento from August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at Kunstuniversität Graz , accessed on March 22, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Belcanto master class. Summer singing and interpretation course. 14.-20. July 2014 ( memento of August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Art University Graz (PDF; 4 kB).
- ↑ The Graz University of Art celebrated their retirement, retirement and service anniversaries ( memento from March 16, 2018). Graz University of Art. June 27, 2017.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Borowska-Isser, Joanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Austrian chamber singer (soprano), music teacher and university professor for singing |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |