NFM Boys' Choir in Wrocław

Wroclaw, Poland

Malgorzata Podzielny conductor

Agnieszka Lewandowska-Grys piano accompaniment


About


The NFM Boys’ Choir was founded in 2009 by Andrzej Kosendiak, Director of the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw (Poland), and from the very beginning it has been working under the direction of Małgorzata Podzielny. The NFM Boys' Choir actively participates in music life, giving concerts with the best ensembles and conductors, such as: John Eliot Gardiner, Giovanni Antonini, Zubin Mehta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Jacek Kaspszyk. It is invited to many events taking place as part of the International Festival Wratislavia Cantans or the Leo Festival, as well as film projects, television and theatre productions. It has also performed in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Japan. Apart from the classes included in the choir’s regular work schedule, the young singers also participate in workshops held several times a year and run by Polish and foreign experts.

Malgorzata Podzielny - assistant professor at the Faculty of Music Education, Choral and Church Music at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław; a graduate of the Faculty of Music Education and the Faculty of Composition, Conducting, Music Theory and Music Therapy with a specialization in music theory at the same university. She also completed postgraduate studies for choirmasters in Bydgoszcz. For 20 years she was the conductor of the ‘Con Brio’ Choir at the Grażyna Bacewicz 1st degree Music School in Wrocław. She currently runs the Rondo Vocal Ensemble (since 2006) and is Artistic Director of the NFM Boys’ Choir (since 2009) as well as the NFM Girls’ Choir in Wrocław, which is being established this September.




Repertoire


Title Composer Lyrics
COMPETITION
Jesu! Rex admirabilis
(O Jesu, King Most Wonderful)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Anthem
Alleluia Zapro Zaprov (b. 1947) Biblical phrase
Ponetemente Lorenzo Donati (b. 1972) Biblical phrase
Kyrie
(Lord, have mercy)
Piotr Jańczak (b. 1972) Biblical phrase
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
(O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people)
Grzegorz Miśkiewicz (b. 1969) Psalm 117
SACRED
Jesu! Rex admirabilis
(O Jesu, King Most Wonderful)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Anthem
Alleluia Zapro Zaprov (b. 1947) Biblical phrase
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
(O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people)
Grzegorz Miśkiewicz (b. 1969) Psalm 117