Olga Szwajgier

Olga Szwajgier (* 1944 in Słowikowa , Lesser Poland Voivodeship ) is a Polish singer (soprano), composer and music teacher.

Szwajgier studied singing at the Krakow Music Academy with Leokadia Kukawska and Stanisława Hoffmannowa until 1970 and has won several prizes at singing competitions. She has been teaching at the Cracow Theater School since 1974, and has been a member of the Myzka Center since 1981 . She appears at festivals of contemporary music in Poland, Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Mexico and others, and sang premieres and premieres of works by Charles Ives , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Jean-Claude Risset , Krzysztof Pendereckis , Marek Stachowskis , Juliusz Łuciuks , Witold Lutosławskis and others, gave concerts with their own compositions and made numerous recordings, radio, film and television recordings. Through self-developed voice exercises, she reaches a vocal range of six octaves.

In 1991 she gave a concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on the occasion of its centenary. In 1993 she was a lecturer at the 11th International Academy for New Composition in Schwaz and at the First International Summer Courses for New Music in Cracow. In the same year she became a member of the UN's International Parliament for Safety and Peace .

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SURNAME	Szwajgier, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish singer (soprano), composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Słowikowa