Magdalena Kozyra has been awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal
Performance with Distinction from Trinity College of Music, London.
She also holds a Diploma in Concert Singing from
Birkbeck College, University of London.
During her studies with Laureen Livingstone and Eugene Asti at Trinity College of Music, she
won first prize in the Lilian Ash French Song Duo Competition together with pianist Andrea Kmecova.
Magdalena has further perfected her artistry on various master classes with
Prof. Teresa Żylis-Gara, Poland, Dame Felicity Palmer, Anna Larsson, Roger Vignoles and Julius Drake, Oxford Lieder Master Course, Mark Padmore, Wigmore Hall, London, Dame Felicity Lott and Robin Bowman, Academie Internationale d'Été de Nice, France.
Magdalena's love of the art song repertoire is reflected in the many lieder recitals she has given
around England, France, Poland and Denmark.
Schumann's Liederkreis Op.39,
Fauré's La Bonne Chanson Op.61, Poulenc's Banalités and Debussy's Ariettes oubliées are among her favourite song cycles.
Her soloist performances of sacred music include works such as Händel's Messiah, Gounod's Redemption,
Mendelssohn's Lobgesang, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Bach's Magnificat, Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, Vivaldi's Gloria, Rossini's Stabat Mater etc.
For two and a half years Magdalena was under contract to the chorus of Opera
Krakowska in Poland where she took part in performances of the following: Carmen,
Halka, Le Nozze di Figaro, L’Elisir D’Amore, Don Giovanni, Orphée et Eurydice,
La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Il Trovatore, Love for three oranges, Devils of Loudun.
Her operatic solo repertoire includes Alice Ford in Die Lustigen Weiber von
Windsor, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, Edwige in
Offenbach's Robinson Crusoe, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.
She features as a solo soprano on EMI's recording of Schubert's Romance Der Vollmond strahlt from Rosamunde and in the short film Hollow Pond by Rolfin Nyhus and Adam Anson.
For nearly a decade Magdalena has been a member of the Danish Radio Concert Choir (DR Koncertkoret).
She has performed at the BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall with
the Danish National Vocal Ensemble as well as the Danish Radio Concert Choir
under Fabio Luisi.
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AUDIO RECORDINGS
'Soir'
G. Fauré
Soprano - Magdalena Kozyra
Piano - Frederik Malmqvist
'Mandoline'
G. Fauré
Soprano - Magdalena Kozyra
Piano - Frederik Malmqvist
'Schlechtes Wetter'
R. Strauss
Soprano - Magdalena Kozyra
Piano - Frederik Malmqvist