Ionian University, Department of Music Studies, Corfu
Voice Masterclass:"SYMBIOSIS OF TEXT AND MUSIC IN VOCAL WORKS"
Monika Fedyk-Klimaszewska, Professor, Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, POLAND
(Erasmus)
3-7 October 2022
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Monika Fedyk-Klimaszewska, Prof. dr hab. graduated from the two departments of the S. Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk: Composition and Theory of Music and Vocal Performance and Acting in the classical singing class of Professor Barbara Iglikowska. For many years, she was the soloist mezzo-soprano of the Baltic Opera in Gdansk. She performed the following opera roles: Amneris („Aida” Verdi), Azucena („Trovatore” Verdi), Giovanna Seymour („Anna Bolena” Donizetti), Rosina and Berta („Il Barbiere di Seviglia” Rossini), Cherubino („Il Matrimonio di Figaro”) and many other. She received a doctoral degree in the artistic discipline of vocalism in 2007 („Specifics of voice leading in the cabaret song cycles of Arnold Schönberg and Benjamin Britten”). She received her doctoral degree in 2011 („Classical and modern elements in Benjamin Britten's vocal lyricism and their exemplification in vocal technique”). In 2013 she received the title of Professor of Musical Arts from the President of the Republic of Poland, and in 2016 she was awarded the position of Full Professor at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. She is the author of many scientific publications in the field of vocalism and voice emission. She conducts master classes in classical singing in Italy and Bulgary as part of the Erasmus program (Rome, Milan, Palermo, Bari, Plovdiv). She has received several awards for her artistic and scientific activity: "Meritorious for Polish Culture", twice the Award of the City of Gdansk in the Field of Culture, „Meritorious for the City of Sanok”, several „Rector's Awards”. In May 2022 she received the Gloria Artis Bronze Medal – the highest honour in the field of culture and the National Education Medal.
