Mixed Choir of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music

• 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 — Pro­fes­sor Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz
Sec­ond­Con­duc­tor — Assis­tant Agata Góreczna
Sec­ond Con­duc­tor — Assis­tant Dar­iusz Zimnicki

The Mixed Choir of The Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music is made up of fresh­men and sopho­mores of the fol­low­ing depart­ments: Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and Music The­ory (I), Depart­ment of Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organ (II), Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal Stud­ies — Gui­tar and Accor­dion Units (III), Depart­ment of Musi­cal Edu­ca­tion (V) and Depart­ment of Sound Engi­neer­ing (VI).

The choir, with its more than 120 per­form­ers, takes active part in the artis­tic life of the Uni­ver­sity. It sings a cap­pella and also coop­er­ates with the FCUM Sym­phony Orches­tra to give great vocal-instrumental pro­duc­tions. The choir has been man­aged by Pro­fes­sors Józef Bok, Hen­ryk Woj­narowski and Maciej Jaśkiewicz. In the period of 1982–2006 the artis­tic direc­tor of the choir was Pro­fes­sor Ryszard Zimak; at present this func­tion is held by Pro­fes­sor Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz.

The choir’s most impor­tant achieve­ments include J. S. Bach’s Mag­ni­fi­cat, con­ducted by Stanisław Wisłocki, K. Szymanowski’s Sta­bat Mater and F. Poulenc’s Sta­bat Mater con­ducted by Bogusław Madey and the final part of L. van Beethoven’s IX Sym­phony con­ducted by Kaz­imierz Kord. Under the direc­tion of Pro­fes­sor Ryszard Zimak, the Choir has per­formed, among other things: W. A. Mozart’s Requiem, Coro­na­tion Mass, Ves­perae solennes de con­fes­sore, J. S. Bach’s Easter-Oratorio and Mass in B-Minor, G. F. Händel’s Det­tin­gen Te Deum, G. Fauré’s Requiem, K. Szymanowski’s Kurpie Songs and Sta­bat Mater, G. Verdi’s Requiem and I. Stravinsky’s Sym­phony of Psalms. The choir gave the first per­for­mance of Witold Rudziński’s Ostro­bram­ska Litany and also has pre­sented Carl Orff’s famous sec­u­lar can­tata, Carmina Burana (April 2001, also May 2009) and Stanisław Moryto’s Sta­bat Mater (March 2002), both of which were later repeated at the Con­cert Hall of the National Phil­har­monic. In May 2003 the choir par­tic­i­pated in con­cert of Pol­ish works in Düs­sel­dorf: Sta­bat Mater by Karol Szy­manowski and Sta­bat Mater by Stanisław Moryto together with Sym­phony Orches­tra of Robert Schu­mann Hochschule für Musik. Recently the choir has per­formed Dies Irae by M. Borkowski, ora­to­rio The Sea­sons by J. Haydn and Petite Messe Solen­nelle by G. Rossini, and Antonin Dvořák’s Mass in D Major.

In addi­tion to its con­cert activ­i­ties, the Mixed Choir of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music takes active part in the life of the school. It sings at the annual inau­gu­ra­tions of the aca­d­e­mic year and at var­i­ous cel­e­bra­tions, such as the pre­sen­ta­tion of the Hon­orary Doc­toral Degree to out­stand­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the artis­tic community.