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EWA BIEGAS
Dean of the Faculty of Vocal and Acting at the Academy of Music in Katowice, an opera singer, professor of art. Her artistic activity focuses on creating opera parts, vocal lyricism, and cantata-oratorio repertoire. She graduated from the Vocal-Acting Faculty of the Academy of Music in Katowice in the solo singing class of professor Jan Ballarin. She continued her vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under the guidance of professor Helena Łazarska.
She is a laureate of numerous vocal competitions both in Poland and abroad, including representing Poland in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2005 competition, where she was among the 25 finalists selected from 700 participants from 32 countries. Her artistic achievements include over 30 leading opera parts, such as Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Tatiana, Liza, Mimi, Leonora, Halka, and Rosalinda. Since 2020 when she debuted in the leading part of Mermaid, an opera by Alek Nowak (the Fryderyk Award), she has been singing as a mezzo-soprano and has performed Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Elias, Nowowiejski’s The Discovery of the Holy Cross, and premiered Kornowicz’s Tricks of Memory. She has performed at venues such as the Opéra de Montréal, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Kammeroper in Vienna, the Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera in Warsaw, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. She has made numerous recordings for Polish and European radio and television stations. Ewa Biegas is a professor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where she teaches solo singing. Since October 2019, she has served as the Dean of the Vocal-Acting Faculty.
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