Joanna Kozłowska

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Joanna Kozłowska-Szczepaniak (born 1959 in Poznań ) is a Polish opera singer with a soprano voice . She has also worked as a singing teacher since 2007 .

life and work

Joanna Kozłowska learned cello and piano at the music school in her hometown, which was named after the Polish composer Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909). After graduating from high school, she studied singing at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznań. She took part in at least two master classes, in 1985 with Hanne-Lore Kuhse in Weimar and the following year with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Zurich.

She gained international attention with first prize at the Benson and Hedges International Voice Competition in London and second prize at the International Singing Competition in Rio de Janeiro. At the beginning of her career she signed a long-term contract with the Opera House in Poznań, the Teatr Wielki , where she was able to develop a broad repertoire. She sang at Wielki from 1984 to 1998. Her international career began in 1986 with Liù in Puccini's Turandot at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. Invitations to numerous renowned opera stages in Europe and America followed. In Italy she appeared at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , in Austria at the Graz Opera and the Vienna State Opera , in Germany at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Hamburg State Opera and on at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet , in Geneva at the Grand Théâtre , in Brussels at the Théâtre de la Monnaie and in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón . In the United States she received much praise for the design of Sandrina in Mozart's La finta giardiniera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music , as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Los Angeles Opera and as Alice Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff in a concert version the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Tate . At the Atlanta Opera she surprised and delighted audiences and press in the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly .

In 1992 she successfully interpreted the role of Sandrina in La finta giardiniera at the Salzburg Festival , staged by Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann . The singer had long-standing guest engagements at the Zurich Opera , where she could be seen and heard as Ariadne, Emma, ​​Lisa, Mimì and Tamara. She also took on four central Verdi roles in Zurich, the two Leonors, Elvira in Ernani and Elisabetta in Don Carlos .

Joanna Kozłowska also regularly performed solo parts in oratorios, cantatas and choral orchestral works. She has performed at some of the most famous concert halls in the world, including the Musikverein in Vienna, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Davies Hall in San Francisco, the Warsaw National Philharmonic and the Konzerthaus in Berlin. She took over the soprano solo in Henryk Górecki's Symphony of Lamentations several times , which was also successfully recorded in 1994 with the Warsaw National Philharmonic under the direction of Kazimierz Kord . Her concert repertoire also includes the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss , Mahler's Second and Fourth, and Sergei Rachmaninov's choral symphony Kolokola . She also sang the soprano solos in Mozart's Requiem , Poulenc's Gloria and Britten's War Requiem . In the United States she has appeared in concerts with the San Francisco Symphony , with the Grand Rapids Symphony and at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.

The conductors with whom the singer has worked include Sylvain Cambreling , James Conlon , Wladimir Fedossejew , Lawrence Foster , David Lockington , Lorin Maazel , Riccardo Muti , Grzegorz Nowak , Carlo Rizzi , Nello Santi , Marcello Viotti , Antoni Wit and David Zinman .

In 2007, while she was still active on stage, Kozłowska began to teach singing at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in her hometown. In February 2013, she completed a doctorate and was appointed Assistant Professor of Singing Technique at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw .

repertoire

Beethoven :

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Recordings

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joanna Kozłowska at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznań (short biography with portrait), accessed on October 5, 2016 (Polish)
  2. ↑ Various - Devozione at Discogs
  3. ↑ Joanna Kozłowska-Szczepaniak, doctor habilitowany sztuki . Pol-on, Information Network for Science and Higher Education, accessed on October 6, 2016 (Polish)
  4. ↑ Michael Cookson: Puccini, Verdi, arie. Soprano Joanna Kozłowska. Musicweb International (review), accessed November 23, 2016 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kozłowska, Joanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kozłowska-Szczepaniak, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Poznań