Krych, Lilianna International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Conductor, member of the creative group of the Hashtag Ensemble contemporary music ensemble, within which she coleads  the first Polish contemporary music stage Hashtag Lab, founder  of the vocal ensemble Match Match Ensemble. She was nominated for the Polityka Passport Award in 2022 and wa s a participant in the Britten-Pears Young Artist programme in the 2023/24  season. Currently she is a PhD student at the Bacewicz Academy  of Music in Łódź.

Her artistic activities focus primarily on opera and contemporary  music. She is fascinated by the interpenetration of disciplines:  opera, theatre, music, visual arts, as well as working with voice,  body, and movement. She treats music and theatre as a tool for  analysing and commenting on reality.

She has worked with the Grand Theatre–National Opera, Castle  Opera in Szczecin, and the Polish Royal Opera, where, as musical  director, she has notably produced Benjamin Britten’s chamber  operas The Rape of Lucretia and The Turn of the Screw. She has  also directed operas by Mozart, Moniuszko, and Rossini. She  is intrigued by contemporary operas and has notably prepared  Salvatore Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici and Superflumina (New  Opera Days Ostrava, Warsaw Autumn), as well as contemporary  operas by Wojciech Blażejczyk (Fake Opera), Karol Nepelski  (Birdy, Solaris), and atypical projects stretching the boundaries  of opera, such as Krystian Lada’s D’ARC or Amir Shpilman and  Shiran Eliaserov’s Impact (NODO 2024), Fisz and Katarzyna  Głowicka’s Mahagonny. Afterparty (Studio Theatre, 2024), among  others.

She is also involved in music education at all levels.