Prof. Elżbieta Wtorkowska

Poland

Elżbieta Wtorkowska is a Professor of Music. She serves as a professor at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz and J. Grodek State High Vocational School in Sanok as well as a lecturer at the Postgraduate Choimaster Programme and Postgraduate Voice Production and Training Programme at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. She is also a vocal consultant of the chorus of „Opera Nova” in Bydgoszcz. Since 1992, she is a lecturer at the Studies for Conductors of Polonia Choirs in Koszalin and is a member of Artistic Council of the Society „Wspólnota Polska”. Since 2002, she is a conductor of the “Ojczyzna” (“Motherland”). She gives lectures and master classes at voice and choral workshops, at learning courses for conductors of Polish choirs in Belarus (1996-2009), Ukraine (1998-2009), Lithuania (2003-2009), Czech Republic (1999-2001, 2007 and 2008), the United States of America (2006 and 2007) and Great Britain (2008). During 2008, she lectured and ran choral workshops in Sydney, Australia in 2009 in Biggar (Scotland) and in Campeche, Mexico(2012). Since 1981, in Murowana Goślina (Poland), prof.Wtorkowska leads „Canzona” Girls’ Choir, since 2001 Female Choir „Canzona-Absolwent” („Canzona-Graduate”), she also serves as artistic support for Boys Choir „Canzona” and Chamber Choir „Canzona”. With “Canzona” choirs she gave concerts in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Finland, Austria, England, Spain and Ukraine. She is the initiator and the director of the International Choral Festival of Rev. Edmund Szymański in Murowana Goślina (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,2013, 2014). She guests as a lecturer at numerous seminars for vocalists, speech therapists, teachers and choir conductors, in Poland and abroad. She teaches vocal workshops for both amateur and professional choirs, children, youth and university choirs, boys, female, male and mixed choirs all over Poland.