Danuta Chmurska is a conductor, artistic director and president of the Władysław Skoraczewski Artos Music Society. She has been engaged with the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera since her childhood, first as a member of a children’s and youth choir led by Władysław Skoraczewski, then as Romuald Miazga’s assistant. Since 1981 she has worked as music educator and prepared children for performing solo and choral parts in operas, ballets, theatre spectacles, and large-scale non-stage musical works(notably Turandot, La Bohème, Carmen, Paradise Lost, Boris Godunov, King Roger, The Queen of Spades, The Gates of Paradise, Wozzeck,The Nutcracker, Requiem for an Icon, The Supposed Miracle or Cracovians and Highlanders, The Magic Flute, Manru, Tosca, Werther,Carmina Burana, and Carmen). She has worked with acclaimed conductors such as Jacek Kaspszyk, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Tomasz Radziwonowicz, Gabriel Chmura, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Keri-Lynn Wilson, and Patrick Fournillier. Highlights of her career include preparing performances of Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and children’s parts in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. She was the artistic director of Fairy Tale, Where Are You?, a musical show staged at the Teatr Wielki. In 2016, she prepared the mixed Artos Choir for gala concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall marking the 20th anniversary of the premiere performance of Martín Palmeri’s Misa a Buenos Aires.

The Władysław Skoraczewski Artos Music Society, of which Chmurska is the president, cooperates with Warsaw Philharmonic and Zielona Góra Philharmonic on symphony concerts, including premieres of works such as Anton Rubinstein’s Moses (2017) as well as concerts for children. As a promoter of Stanisław Moniuszko’s music among children and teenagers, Chmurska was the production manager of two operatic spectacles based on Moniuszko’s songs, Staś’s Musical Journeys and Stanisław’s Singing Garden, both staged by the Teatr Wielki. As leader of the Artos Music Society’s choirs, she initiates and organises many concerts and other artistic events. She teaches voice projection, vocal interpretation and artistic expression to children, teenagers, and adults, inspired in all her work by her teacher and the Society’s patron, Władysław Skoraczewski.