dr Joanna Freszel
Soprano, three-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture, Pro Polonia programme, ISA2012, awarded with the Magna cum Laude medal, Młoda Polska [Young Poland] scholarship, Les Orphées d’Or – Prix de la SACD of L’Académie du Disque Lyrique. Nominated in two categories for the Fryderyk 2016 award for her debut album real life song; a Polityka Passport Award winner.
She received a Coryphaeus award for her participation in A. Nowak’s Drach to the libretto by Sz. Twardoch and won a Fryderyk award for the recording of the opera ahat-ilī – Sister of Gods by A. Nowak to the words by O. Tokarczuk.
Awarded in such competition as the Halska Competition, the Szymanowski Competition, the Reszke Competition, Gabor Belvedere, J:opera Voice Competition ISA’12. Finalist of the Viotti Competition.
She has recorded music for films and radio plays. The artist has taken part in the most important festivals in Poland and abroad. She works with the Estonian National Opera, the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw and the Grand Theatre in Poznań.
She has performed as Musetta in La Bohème by Puccini, Vénus and a Phrygian woman in Dardanus by Rameau, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte by Mozart, Marguerite in Faust by Gounod, Machine in Nici [Threads] by Wołek, Susanna in Figaro Gets a Divorce by Langer, Psyche in Eros and Psyche by Różycki, Inanna in ahat-ilī by Nowak, Ellenai in Anhelli by Przybylski, Rosina in The Barber of Seville by Rossini or Hanna in The Haunted Manor by Moniuszko.
In 2020, she released her second album Śpiewnik polski [A Polish Songbook] (Orphée Classics), and at the end of 2021 – the album Akwarelle [Aquarelles], which is the first recording of complete songs by Grażyna Bacewicz (DUX).
She is a Master of Science in Environmental Protection of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. In 2019, she received the title of Doctor of Musical Arts with honours.