Frołów, Anna International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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graduated from the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw,  where she studied choral conducting with Ryszard Zimak at  the Faculty of Music Education. In 2000, she won the 2nd Prize  at the National Competition for Master’s Theses by Graduates of  Arts Universities for her dissertation, Musical Life in Occupied  Warsaw, 1939–45. During her studies, she sang in the Chopin  Academy of Music Mixed Choir, Warsaw Inter-University Choir,  and Warsaw Chamber Opera Chamber Choir. She has taught for  many years, first at the Ignacy Domeyko Primary School no. 162  and Ignacy Domeyko Lower Secondary School no. 77 in Warsaw, and now at Ignacy Domeyko Secondary School no. 122. She  organises the Concerts for Parents series and the Domeyko for  Children charity campaigns. She founded the Frullato Mixed  Choir, with which she has won prizes and distinctions at festivals  and competitions. 

One of five nominees nationwide, in 2014 she was shortlisted  for the Jan Rodowicz Anoda Award in recognition of “a lifetime  of achievement and an attitude to life that sets an example for  younger generations.” In the 2018/19 school year, she placed  third in the Top-Class Teacher competition for the Bielany and Bemowo districts. In October 2024, she received the Mayor of  Warsaw’s Sapere Auso Award for outstanding achievements in  teaching and educational work.