Zalesińska Lilianna
studied singing at the Music Academy in Łódź, graduating with honours in musical performance and opera. She also holds a postgraduate diploma with honours from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, as well as the Institute of Art History at Warsaw University. She participated in masterclasses with Teresa Żylis-Gara, Raúl Giménez, Marjana Lipovšek, Alfred Burgstaller, Claudia Eder, Helena Łazarska as well as in Lieder masterclasses with Peter Schreier, Hartmut Höll, Udo Reinemann, Roger Vignoles, Edith Wiens, Konrad Richter, Mitsuko Shirai, Urszula Kryger and Maciej Pikulski.
She is an award winner of numerous Polish vocal competitions as well as the 1st Prize at the Rheinsberg Chamber Opera Competition, where she made her debut as Mathilde in Handel’s Ottone in a performance directed by Harry Kupfer. Since then, she has been performing in Poland, Austria, France and Germany. Her roles include the title role in Balducci’s Boabdil, re di Granata (first performance since 1827). She was also chosen to sing in Schlafes Bruder by Herbert Willi at the Neue Oper Wien.
She has held scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Dürr Foundation in Switzerland.
She has premiered contemporary compositions during the Festival für Junge Zeitgenössische Musik in Vienna and Jeunesse Österreich, organised by the ISCM and the Austrian Composers’ Society (ÖKB), and has subsequently performed at the Konzerthaus, Haus der Musik and Kunsthalle in Vienna. Lately at the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź she sang Song of Nature, a work composed for her by Artur Zagajewski. She has also participated in several editions of the Musica Moderna contemporary music festival in Łódź (Poland).
She has appeared at numerous festivals in her home country an abroad, such as Les Heures Romantiques, Max Reger-Tage, the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, The Colours of Poland in Łańcut, Viva Il Canto, Polish Song Festival at the Wilanów Palace in Warsaw, Adam Didur Festival, Forum Musicum, Chanterelle Festival. During the Chopin Year 2010, she performed two Chopin songs recitals in Warsaw. She has made recordings for Polish Radio, Radio Łódź and TV Polsat (live recording of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater).
She was featured in the Talente und Karrieren programme of the German Kulturradio RBB, and a film about the production of Handel’s Ottone was published on DVD.
