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Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny (Choral Conductor)

Born: March 24, 1976 - Głubczyce, Poland

The Polish choral conductor, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, graduated from the University of Wrocław in 2000 with a degree in biology. That year, she founded the Kameralny Chór Akademii Medycznej (Medici Cantantes Choir at the Medical University of Wrocław). In 2004, she received a diploma from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where she studied Music Education and was awarded a diploma in 2005 from the Vocal Department. During this time, she was honoured with the first prize in the National Contest for Choir Conductors. In 2006, she completed the Postgraduate Voice Production and Training Programme at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

Since June 2006, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny has been the Artistic Director of the National Forum of Music Choir. In 2008, she was awarded a special prize for conductors from the 39th Legnica Cantat National Choir Contest. She became the head of Polish National Youth Choir, which she also founded, in 2013. She completed course work at the Academy of Culture Leaders at the Economic University of Kraków, in 2014 and was distinguished with the Gloria Artis Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture. The following January, she was named the programme director of the Choral Academy of the National Forum of Music. In 2016, she was a music curator for the year that Wrocław served as the European Capital of Culture. The album "De Profundis - Polish Psalms of the 20th and 21st Century" with the Chór NFM under her direction was awarded the Fryderyk prize for the best choral, oratorio and orchestra music, 2017. She currently works as an Associate Professor at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. She currently lives in Wroclaw, Poland.

Sources:
NFM Website (January 2018)
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny profile on Facebook
Photos 01-02: for. Łukasz Rajchert
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (April 2021)

Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny: Short Biography Ensembles: Chór NFM
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Recordings of Vocal Works

Links to other Sites

Concert celebrating the centenary of Poland regaining independence (NFM)
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny (Official Website) [Polish/English]
Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny on Facebook


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