Prof. Elżbieta Wtorkowska

Poland

Elżbieta Wtorkowska is Professor of Music. She serves as a rector at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszczy as well as a lecturer at the Postgraduate Choimaster and Voice Production Training Programme at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.She was also a vocal consultant of the professional chorus of „Opera Nova" in Bydgoszcz(2004-2024). 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 lectures and gives master classes in voice and choral workshops at learning courses for conductors of Polish choirs in Belaruss (1996-2009), Ukraine (-2009), Lithuania (2003-2009), Czech Republic (1999-2001, 2007 and 2008), the United States of America (2006,2007,2014 and 2016-19) and Great Britain (2008, 2015). In the same 2008, she lectured and ran choral workshops in Sydney, Australia in 2009 in Biggar (Scotland)and in Campeche ,Mexico(2012) and in Lloret de Mar, Spain (2014,2015, 2019,2022) and in Slovakia (2025, 2026) Since 1981, in Murowana Goślina (Poland), she leads „Canzona" Girls' Choir, since 2001 Female Choir „Canzona-Absolwent" („Canzona-Graduate"), she also serves as artistic and subject support for Boys 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, Portugal, Bulgaria Ukraine, Malta, France, Norway and USA. She is an initiator and the director of the International Choral Festival of Rev. Edmund Szymański in Murowana Goślina (2007-2018). 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.