Inter-College Baroque Orchestra

• Art
• • Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Mixed Choir of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Inter-College Baroque Orchestra
  • Chopin Acad­e­mia Orchestra
  • The FCUM Brass and Wood­wind Band
  • The FCUM Big-Band
  • War­saw Boys’ and Men’s Choir at the FCUM in Warsaw
  • Chopin Vocal Consort
  • War­saw Soloists Con­certo Avenna
  • Wilanów Quar­tet

Artis­tic Direc­tor and Leader — Agata Sapiecha

The ensem­ble has existed for a few years already at the Inter-College Unit of Early Music at the War­saw Acad­emy (now Uni­ver­sity) of Music under the direc­tion of Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Agata Sapiecha. Bring­ing this ini­tia­tive to life was only pos­si­ble thanks to the coop­er­a­tion with the Acad­emy of Music in Cra­cow, and espe­cially to Prof. Elż­bi­eta Stefańska’s com­mit­ment to the devel­op­ment of com­mon didac­tic and artis­tic under­tak­ings. At present, a few uni­ver­si­ties in Poland (apart from the FCUM and Acad­emy of Music in Cra­cow — Poz­nań, Katow­ice, Gdańsk, Wrocław), and some­times also for­eign ped­a­gogues and stu­dents, par­tic­i­pate in it. Annual meet­ings of stu­dents and ped­a­gogues dur­ing the next edi­tions of the Early Music Forum at the FCUM, as well as per­for­mances as part of the con­cert cycles or fes­ti­vals orga­nized by Pol­ish uni­ver­si­ties (e.g. Bach Days in Cra­cow, For Fans and Con­nois­seurs in War­saw), strengthen this coop­er­a­tion and at the same time give the pos­si­bil­ity of devel­op­ment in artis­tic and didac­tic dis­ci­plines. Begin­ning of the coop­er­a­tion between the Inter-College Unit of Early Music and Chair of Vocal Stud­ies cre­ated a great oppor­tu­nity to orga­nize and real­ize the vocal-instrumental projects that are so cru­cial for early music. The ini­tia­tive of Prof. Jad­wiga Rappé and Assis­tant Prof. Agata Sapiecha, joined soon by other out­stand­ing ped­a­gogues, has already resulted in numer­ous music projects as part of the so called the Pas­sion and Advent Con­certs. In the sea­son of 2006/2007 this coop­er­a­tion lead to per­form­ing the ora­to­rio La Res­ur­rezione by G. F. Haen­del, in the fol­low­ing sea­sons frag­ments of J.S. Bach’s Mag­ni­fi­cat and St. Matthew Pas­sion were per­formed, while in the pre­vi­ous sea­son the orches­tra par­tic­i­pated in in the per­for­mance of the opera L’amante di tutte by B. Galuppi on the stage of the War­saw Cham­ber Opera, and the can­tatas by G.Ph. Tele­mann and St. John Pas­sion by J.S. Bach on the stage of its par­ent university.