“Sonantes” Female Choir of the Poznan University of Economics

“Sonantes” Female Choir of the Poznan University of Economics was founded in 1971 by prof. Krystyna Domańska-Maćkowiak.The current conductor is mgr. Hanna Malicka, who graduated from the Music Academy in Poznań. She has worked with choir since 1991, and as a conductor since 2004. “Sonantes” consists mainly of students and graduates of the University of Economics. Participating in the musical life of the city, it takes part in music reviews, festivals, and competitions.

The choir has a diverse repertoire that includes mediaeval monody, folk songs, church music, and vernacular choral forms of different periods. “Sonantes” also performs original pieces.

The choir won the gold prize and in their category from the Passion Music Competition in Bydgoszcz in 2007, first place in their category from the Choir Music Festival “Mater Misericordiae” in Ząbki in 2011, and silver prize in their category from International Festival “Rybnicka jesień chóralna” in Rybnik, also in 2011.

Conductor Hanna Malicka is an graduate of the Academy of Music in Poznan. From 1998 - 2000 she was a conductor at the Music Theater in Poznan. She started her work with "Sonantes" first as a conductor's assistant before becoming conductor and art director for the choir in 2004.

Poznan is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, the region called Greater Poland.The city forms the largest metropolitan area in western Poland and the fourth largest in the country (almost 1.5 million inhabitants). Poznań is among the oldest cities in Poland and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state during the tenth and eleventh centuries. The Kingdom of Poland began in Poznan.

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