Mädchenchor «Skowronki», Poland
The SKOWRONKI Girls’ Choir from Poznań, Poland was founded in 1950. From its beginning it has been affiliated with ZAMEK Culture Centre. Experienced and respected pedagogues-musicians look after the musical development of the girls and artistic program.
The ensemble is consisting of 150 girls aged between 6 and 21. The singers of the choir are primary and secondary school students as well as students from universities of Poznań. The group’s repertoire rediscovers and promotes works of various composers from different periods as well as performs pieces commissioned especially for the choir.
The Choir has taken part in numerous festivals and choral competitions in Poland and abroad. It has received many main prizes in forty European choir competitions. The Choir co-operates with the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra and has received invitations to participate in opera spectacles.
It tours regularly, bringing Polish culture closer to the world and has performed in all countries in Europe, in Israel, in the USA, South America and in Japan. The group’s performance highlight was a concert on one of the world’s most prestigious stages – Carnegie Hall, New York City. The two-hour concert, exuberantly applauded by American audience, was an enormous success.
The SKOWRONKI Girls’ Choir recorded for television, radio. The choir’s discography includes 23 CDs and DVDs with studio and concert recordings.
The Choir received an “Honorary Badge for Services to Wielkopolska Province”. SKOWRONKI Girls’ Choir is the organizer of the TRILLME biannual International Girls’ Choir Festival in Poznań.
The Choir leads and creatively inspired by its Artistic Director and Conductor Alicja Szeluga PhD, an educator and choral music aficionado. The Vocal Coach Zuzanna Zięta, and accompanying pianist Czesław Łynsza, as well as percussionist Beata Polak complete the musical team.