Stanisław Moniuszko Music School Complex in Wałbrzych
Symphony Orchestra of the Stanisław Moniuszko Music School Complex in Wałbrzych
The orchestra is made up of students and graduates of our school. The conductor of the orchestra since 1992 is Małgorzata Sapiecha-Muzioł.
During each school year the orchestra prepares several programs and performs more than ten symphonic and sacred vocal work concerts. These have become a mainstay of the cultural events calendar in Wałbrzych and Szczawno Zdrój. These include Christmas, Lent, New Year’s, charity and national holiday concerts.
For several years, the orchestra has been cooperating with the “Eurorchestries” Federation, taking part in festivals in Charente Maritime (France) and in Košice (Slovakia). The orchestra has performed several times at the “Young Classic” festival in Wrocław.
It is regularly invited by the Wrocław University of Technology to perform at all kinds of official events at the University (inaugurations of the academic year, inaugural concerts, honoris causa degree ceremonies etc.).
The Symphony Orchestra of the Stanisław Moniuszko Music School Complex in Wałbrzych has also recorded a CD of W.A. Mozart’s Requiem.
Małgorzata Sapiecha-Muzioł conductor
Małgorzata Sapiecha graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the symphonic conducting class of Professor Marek Pijarowski (1998) and from the Faculty of Musical Education at the same school, which she completed with honours in 1993, studying conducting in the class of of Professor Zofia Urbanyi-Krasnodębska.
She refined her skills in master classes and seminars (at the Bach Academy in Stuttgart, under the direction of Professor Helmuth Rilling).
She was awarded 1st Distinction at the 2nd Witold Lutosławski National Review of Young Conductors in Białystok.
As a conductor she worked together with the “Capitol” Music Theatre in Wrocław and with the orchestras of the Wrocław Philharmonic, Sudecka Philharmonic and the Lower Silesian Philharmonic, with the “Wratislavia” Chamber Orchestra, the “Ricordanza” Chamber Orchestra and with the “Cantores Minores Wratislavienses” choir.
She has been the conductor of the orchestra and choir in the Stanisław Moniuszko Music School Complex in Wałbrzych since 1992. Starting in 2000 she became the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Academic Choir of the Wrocław University of Technology. She conducts many concerts with these ensembles in Poland and abroad.
Małgorzata Sapiecha is the Artistic Director of the annual St. Barbara’s Day Academic Choirs festival in Wrocław.
She has recorded albums with W.A. Mozart’s Requiem, Kolęda się niesie [Carols in the Air] by G. Pstrokońska-Nawratil and A cappella and Dzieciątko się narodziło [A Child is Born] with the Academic Choir of the Wrocław University of Technology.
