Iwona Sobotka

(soprano)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Following her graduation from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Iwona continued her studies with renowned artist and pedagogue Tom Krause at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. She has appeared as a guest singer in Komische Oper Berlin, Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden, Bayreuther Festspiele, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Tokyo Spring Festival.

ACNOWLEDGEMENTS
Iwona Sobotka achieved international acclaim as the Grand Prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition of Belgium. Other awards include the East & West Artists International Auditions in New York, where she was awarded her debut recital in Carnegie Hall. She was a contributing artist to a complete collection of Szymanowski’s songs for Channel Classics alongside the Polish tenor Piotr Beczala. As a result of this recording collaboration, Sobotka was presented with the Fryderyk Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts in Poland. Her subsequent release for EMI Classics in 2006, “Songs of a Fairytale Princess” with Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, received five stars in BBC Music Magazine.

REPERTOIRE
Roxana (Szymanowski’s “King Roger”)
Daughter (Shostakovich’s “The Nose”) 
Contessa (Mozart’s “Le Nozze Figaro”) 
Donna Anna (Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”)
Pamina and First Lady (Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”) 
Cio Cio San (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”) 
Magda (Puccini’s “La Rondine”)
Mimì (Puccini’s “La bohème”)
Liù (Puccini’s “Turandot”)
Ygraine (Dukas’ “Ariane et Barbe-Bleue”)
Tatyana (Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”)
Violetta (Verdi’s “La traviata”)