Anna Moniuszko

Дирижер

Anna Moniuszko graduated Artistic Education at the Academy of Music of Warsaw (branch in Białystok, Poland) and Postgraduate Choirmaster Studies at the Academy of Music of Bydgoszcz (graduated with honors). In 2003 she has started her professional experience at the Academy of Music of Warsaw (branch in Białystok) (now – The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music) as an assistant of the conducting class of professor Bożenna Sawicka and has taken up a role of assistant of conductor of the Choir of Medical Academy of Białystok (now – The Medical University of Białystok). In that time she achieved the 1st place on the International Choir Competition Canto Lodzensis (Łódź, Poland, 2007) and the 1st place and the Special Prize for the Best Conductor on the International Choir Festival in Preveza (Greece, 2008). In 2013, with her as a conductor the Choir won the 1st in the International Choir Festival Vratislavia Sacra (Wrocław, Poland) and the Silver Diploma in the International Choir Competition in Rimini (Italy). Anna Moniuszko cooperates with early music ensembles: Camerata Podlaska, Sine Nomine and Subtillior Ensemble. In 2005 she has established the Early Music Ensemble Diletto, which specializes in the renaissance and baroque music. She is a laureate of the Scholarship for Young Authors (2009) and the Scholarship for Professional Authors (2010) founded by the President of Białystok. In 2010 she defended her PhD thesis called Baroque opera composition in the aspect of contemporary performance practice by example of “Dido and Aeneas” by H. Purcell. She is the founder and a coordinator of university series of concerts Music of Baroque Masters, which present compositions of early compositors in historic interiors of Białystok. Nowadays, Anna Moniuszko works as a lecturer at The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and as a conductor of the Choir of Medical University of Białystok.