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Joanna Freszel

fot. Jacek Poremba

A graduate of the vocal class of Prof. Jadwiga Rappé at the Department of Vocal and Acting Studies at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. A tree-time recipient of the Polish Ministry of Education scholarship, pro Polonia program and ISA2012 program. She was awarded with Młoda Polska scholarship and the Magna cum Laude medal for the best graduate of the Chopin University (2013). In 2017, she was nominated to the Coryphaeus award and won Polityka’s Passport award. She earned her PhD in 2019.
The artist has won many prizes and distinctions in numerous national and foreign competitions. She won, among others, the 2nd prize at the Halina Halska Competition in Wrocław, 3rd prize and a special award at the Karol Szymanowski Competition in Łódź, 1st prize and three special awards at the Reszke Competition in Częstochowa, a special award in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna and the 1st prize together with a special award at the ISA J:opera Voice Competition in Frankfurt (2012). She was also a finalist of the Viotti Competition in Vercelli.
She performed, among others, at the International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn, Contrechamps Festival in Geneva, Saaremaa Opera Days in Estonia, Melos-Étos in Bratislava and at the Festival of 7 Currents and Concert of 7 Premieres, organised on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Polish Composers’ Union. In 2011, she performed a recital at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. In that year, she debuted as Musetta in La Bohème by G. Puccini (Poland), sang the part of Vénus and Phrygienne in Dardanus by J. P. Rameau (Ireland, UK), and in the role of Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte by W. A. Mozart (Poland, Italy).
She sang the role of Margatete in Faust by Ch. Gounod in the Estonian National Opera House, the part of Machine in Threads by K. Wołek in the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the role of Susanna in Figaro Gets a Divorce by E. Langer and D. Pountney in St. Moniuszko Opera House in Poznań and the role of Psyche in Eros and Psyche at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw.
The artist successfully interprets compositions from all music eras. She specialises in performing contemporary music (works such as Credentials or Think, Think Lucky by R. Haubenstock-Ramati, Shakespeare’s Sonnets by P. Mykietyn, Les Noces by I. Strawiński). She has premiered a dozen of pieces, including Stabat Mater by A. Pärt, Sadness Untitled by M. Nikodijević, Primordia Rerum by O. Bianchi, In Memoriam by U. Caine, Canticum Puerorum by E. Knapik, Audycja V by A. Krzanowski, Wściekłość by C. Duchnowski.
The artist has appeared on stage with many orchestras in Poland and abroad: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Iuventus, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic, Kracow Symphony Orchestra, Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Świętokrzyska Philharmonic, Szczecin Philharmonic, Pomorska Philharmonic Orchestra – Capella Bydgostiensis, New Music Orchestra, AUKSO – the Chamber Orchestra of Tychy, Orkestr de ereprijs (the Netherlands), Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik (Austria), Symphony Orchestra Camerata Viva, performing, among others, under the baton of such conductors as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Gabriel Chmura, Jacek Kaspszyk, Krzesimir Dębski, Jerzy Salwarowski, Marek Moś, Paul Esswood, Wim Boerman, Alexander Liebreich, Szymon Bywalec, Tadeusz Strugała, Jacek Rogala, Adam Klocek, Arturo Tamayo, Piotr Sułkowski and Michał Dworzyński.

During her tour in Ukraine, she performed Chantefleurs et chantefables by Witold Lutosławski together with the Philharmonic Orchestras in Lemburg, Odessa, Chernihiv, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk.
In 2015, thanks to DUX Recording Producers, her debut album real life song was released, featuring worka composed especially for her by young Polish composers: M Bebinow, A. Kościów, R. Janiak, A. Zubel, S. Zamuszka, A. Borzym jr, J. Szmytka i K. Szwed. The album was nominated for the Fryderyk 2016 award in two categories and the award Orphée d’Or granted by L’Académie du disque lyrique for the best interpretation of contemporary music.