WARSAW BOYS’ CHOIR

was founded in 1990. Its founder, artistic director and conductor is Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz. The Choir has won awards in international competitions, including the 1st Prize at the Cesare Augusto Seghizzi Competition in Gorizia (Italy, 2007). It has worked with conductors such as Antoni Wit, Kazimierz Kord, Grzegorz Nowak, Jacek Kaspszyk, Yoav Talmi, Philippe Herreweghe, Valery Gergiev, and Krzysztof Penderecki whose works including the St Luke Passion, Utrenya, and Credo are part of the Choir’s concert repertoire. The Choir has performed in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, Lithuania, Slovakia, Italy, and Great Britain, and has repeatedly toured Japan and China.

The Choir’s discography comprises 18 CDs for labels as such Naxos, Bridge, CD Accord, Dux: Pergolesi’s and Dvořák’s settings of Stabat Mater, masses by Beethoven and Haydn, Penderecki’s Utrenya, Credo, St Luke Passion, and Magnificat, Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, and Mahler’s Symphonies no. 3 and 8. Their recording of George Crumb’s Star-Child won a Grammy Award in 2001.

The Warsaw Boys’ Choir Foundation runs regular programmes of full-time artistic education for children and teenagers as well as music workshops and camps in different locations, which also include sport activities (football, skiing, cycling, canoeing, sailing).