Professor Ewa Iżykowska, DA Hab.

Ewa Iżykowska (Soprano, Mez­zoso­prano) belongs to the group of the most out­stand­ing Pol­ish singers.

She grad­u­ated from Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw where she stud­ied singing under Pro­fes­sor Kaz­imiera Goławska. She con­tin­ued her stud­ies at the Acad­e­mia Musi­cale Chi­giana in Siena under Geor­gio Favaretto and Ettore Capogagliani, Accad­e­mia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Giuli­etta Simion­ato and Eduardo Mueller.

She is also summa cum laude grad­u­ate of Acad­emy of Drama in War­saw, Poland.

Ewa Iżykowska won sev­eral prizes at the inter­na­tional vocal com­pe­ti­tions, such as Belvedere Com­pe­ti­tion in Vienna, Aus­tria, Mozart Com­pe­ti­tion in Alessan­dria, Italy, Szy­manowski Com­pe­ti­tion in War­saw, Poland.

Ewa Iżykowska started her pro­fes­sional career at the Opera House in Poz­nań, Poland in 1981 where she cre­ated Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Vio­letta in La Travi­ata, Micaela in Car­men, Liu in Turan­dot and many others.

In 1986 Ewa Iżykowska made her debut at the Cham­ber Opera House in Vienna, Aus­tria, where she sang Nedda in I Pagli­acci directed by George Tabori and Count­ess in Le nozze di Figaro.

In 1987–1991 she was soloist at the Opera House in Lucerne, Switzer­land, where among oth­ers she sang Poppa in L’Incoronazione di Pop­pea, Count­ess in Le nozze di Figaro, Tatyana in Eugen One­gin, Vio­letta in La Travi­ata, Adri­ana in Adri­ana Lecou­vreur together with tenor Ramon Var­gas, and Mar­cello Viotti conducting.

Recently she also appeared in mul­ti­ple Euro­pean the­atres singing many char­ac­ters in Penderecki’s Die Schwarze Maske, The Devil from Loudaine, (both broad­casted inter­na­tion­ally) Par­adise Lost, Strauss’ Salome and Rosenkava­lier (Marschalin), Puccini’s Tosca, and Giordano’s Fedora.

Ewa Iżykowska is a dis­tin­guished ora­to­rio / can­tata singer. Her reper­toire includes the best known works start­ing from Baroque through Roman­tic ora­to­rios to con­tem­po­rary works like Mahler’s Sym­phony No. 7 or Górecki’s Sym­phony No. 3 and the whole Penderecki’s ora­to­rio repertoire.

Dur­ing her career she per­formed in the world’s most pres­ti­gious opera the­aters and con­cert halls like La Scala, Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, and she was tour­ing around Europe, Amer­i­cas, Philip­pines and Russia.

She has recorded with Pol­ish Radio & TV and Aus­tria TV ORF.

In 2000, she started her world-wide tour with two solo recitals: From Baroque to Jazz and Songs of Chopin and Paderewski.

Since 2000 she begun to share her expe­ri­ence with young stu­dents at Uni­ver­sity in Olsten, Poland, Pol­ish Acad­emy of Sci­ences in War­saw, and she become a v-cue direc­tor of Keimyung F. Chopin Acad­emy of Music in South Korea.

Since 2004, she is asked to par­tic­i­pate in many inter­na­tional opera work­shops, sem­i­nars, courses and fes­ti­vals, like, Schlern Music Fes­ti­val in Italy, Mas­ter Class at the Texas Chris­t­ian Uni­ver­sity, Mas­ter Class at the Catholic Uni­ver­sity in Daegu, S. Korea, From Chopin to Górecki Fes­ti­val at the F. Chopin Acad­emy of Music in Warsaw.

Apart from teach­ing she also works as a direc­tor. She pre­sented a per­for­mance of Song Books for Home Use by S. Moniuszko in 2010, and a per­for­mance enti­tled Musi­cale Musi­cale in 2011.

Ewa Iżykowska gives a lot of con­certs. Recently she has given a recital at the Accad­e­mia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2010 she gave a recital of Songs by Chopin in Paris, and it was the first time ever that those pieces were recorded on a Blu-ray disc.

In 2011 she gave a per­for­mance in Vat­i­can on St. Peter’s Square dur­ing the beat­i­fi­ca­tion cer­e­mony of John Paul II.

She flu­ently speaks 5 lan­guages: Ital­ian, Russ­ian, Ger­man, Eng­lish and French. She holds DA degree and she is Pro­fes­sor at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in Warsaw.