Anna Woźnicka

Vocalist, music arranger, choral conductor, and pianist. She comes from a family with rich musical traditions.

A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, an Erasmus scholarship holder (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna), and a graduate of Postgraduate Studies in Administration and Management at the Warsaw School of Economics.

In 2014, she was awarded for her social contributions to the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

She collaborated with the Choir of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, as well as performed with Vienna-based choirs: the Arnold Schoenberg Choir under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and the Wiener Singakademie – the choir of the Vienna Konzerthaus – with which she sang under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, and Valery Gergiev.

From 2014 to 2021, she was the artistic director and vocalist of the ensemble Vox Varshe (formerly Vocal Varshe), with whom she won the Grand Prix at the 21st Polish Radio Folk Festival – New Tradition, as well as the 3rd prize in the Folk Phonogram of the Year 2018 competition.

In 2021, she founded the ensemble YAEL, where she juxtaposes Jewish music with traditional sounds and patterns from other musical cultures, collaborating with musicians who are open to new sounds.

In 2018, Requiem Records released the album Bramy Nieba (“Gates of Heaven”), a project recorded by her ensemble and Michał Jacaszek. The project was inspired by the reliefs of renowned American abstractionist Frank Stella and by pre-war photographs and drawings of wooden synagogues. Its concept was developed by Miron Zajfert.

For many years she has been focusing on creating music projects centered around Jewish culture that have been carried out by the ensambles by her led.