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Magdalena Szostak

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born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice where she studied with Henryka Januszewska. Since 1990 she has performed with Camerata Silesia, with which she has sung many solo parts, mainly in early and contemporary music, and toured extensively at home and abroad. Several Polish composers have written or dedicated pieces specially to her, including Krzysztof Baculewski (Chansons romanesques & frivoles) and Stanisław Krupowicz (Miserere). Recent highlights in her career have included performances in Camille Saint-SaĎns’s Christmas Oratorio, Baculewski’s Chansons romanesques & frivoles, Bach’s Magnificat (with Emma Kirkby), Arvo Pärt’s Miserere and Andrzej Krzanowski’s Audycja iii (Programme iii) at the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ in 2000, Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia (‘Warsaw Autumn’, 1999), Stanisław Krupowicz’s Christmas Oratorio (first performance, ‘Warsaw Autumn’, 1997) and Paweł Szymański’s Four Liturgical Pieces (performed as part of ‘Meta-Mass’, the inaugural concert of the 1996/97 ebu season organized by Polish Radio 2).