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Madejska, Monika

She graduated with honours in music theory from the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice in 2008. She has received two scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. An active academic researcher, she has written several dozen articles and publications, mostly on twentiethand twenty-first-century music, as well as the first Polish monograph of Dutch composer Cornelis de Bondt (supervised by Andrzej Chłopecki). Presently she is a lecturer at the Music Academy in Katowice.
For many years, she has sang in numerous choirs including Camerata Silesia – The Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble, Polish Radio Choir in Cracow, Silesian Philharmonic Choir, Music Academy Choir, Silesian University Choir, Music Institute in Cieszyn. Since 2005 she has performed with the Cantus Floridus vocal ensemble directed by Szymon Bywalec. As a choirmaster she has worked with the Presto Cantabile Choir of Tychy (which she cofounded) and the Jutrzenka Mixed Choir in Ruda Śląska. Since 2012 she has directed the Unisono Choir of Tychy (which she founded) and the Hejnał of Katowice, a men’s choir with a centenary tradition, one of the last of its kind in Poland.
With these choirs, she has premiered many compositions and performed at music festivals throughout Europe, including Cantio Lodziensis Festival in Łódź, Legnica Cantat National Choir Tournament, Praga Cantat International Choir Competition and Festival in Prague, Musica Mundi International Choir Competition in Riva del Garda, Festival of Paweł Szymański’s Music, Gorczycki Festival, Premieres Festival, and Silesian Contemporary Music Days. As a soloist, she has premiered numerous new works, working with young generation composers such as Adrian Robak, Gabriela Dendera, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Kamil Pawłowski, and Piotr Gryska.
With the New Music Orchestra under Szymon Bywalec, she premiered Jakub Sarwas’s song Zurück (Book of Songs, 2004) during the Premieres Evening in Katowice 2007. In 2013 at the International Harp Festival in Katowice, with the same orchestra and conductor accompanied by the Katowice Music Academy Men’s Choir, she gave the first performance of Jarosław Chełmecki’s Magnificat, a work dedicated to her by the composer.

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