Styczek, Marta International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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graduated in choral conducting from the Chopin University  of Music, where she studied with Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny.  Since 2014, she has conducted the Żywioł wSzelki family schola,  winning several awards with it, including a commendation at  the 29th Rev. Kazimierz Szwarlik International Festival of Christmas Carols and Pastorals in Będzin.

In 2021, she completed a bachelor’s degree in arts education in  music, specialising in ensemble direction, in Ewa Marchwicka’s  conducting class. In the academic years 2021/22 and 2022/23, she  served as president of the Choral Conducting Arts and Research  Society. From 2022 to 2025, she sang with the Polish National  Youth Choir, appearing with it at leading concert venues in Poland  (including the National Forum of Music in Wrocław and Grand  Theatre – Polish National Opera in Warsaw) as well as in Germany  and the United Kingdom. The recording of Elgar’s The Dream of  Gerontius, made with the choir as part of a London project, won  the Choral Award at the 2025 BBC Music Magazine Awards.

Since 2022, she has conducted the Władysław IV Choir at  the Władysław IV Secondary School no. 8 in Warsaw, winning  Bronze Bands with the ensemble at the 21st Sacred Song Festival in Grójec (2023), 1st Christmas Carol and Pastorale Games  in Warsaw (2025), and 12th International Festival of Christmas  Carols and Pastorals in Rzeszów (2025). She has sung with Mus  Arietes Choir since 2022. Since 2023, she has conducted the Senior Choir at the Support Centre for Older People in Warsaw’s  Bemowo district, and since September 2023, Sternik Pruszków  Choir. She relishes working with amateur musicians: sharing her  passion for music, watching them develop, and seeing the pleasure they take in making music together.