The conductor
Nominated for the Passport of Polityka Award 2022. In the 2023/24 season, she is a participant in the Britten Pears Young Artists program. She is a member of the creative group Hashtag Ensemble and co-leader of the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space. She graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in the class of Professor Marek Pijarowski and is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz University of Music in Łódź.
Lilianna Krych’s main interests are opera and contemporary music. She is fascinated by the intersection of various fields of art: theater, music, visual arts, as well as work in the area of voice, body and movement. She treats music and theater as a tool for analyzing and commenting on reality. Among opera artists, works by Benjamin Britten and Salvatore Sciarrino have a special place in her repertoire. She is engaged in premieres that redefine the concept of opera and the role of the conductor, such as W. Błażejczyk’s Fake Opera and K. Nepelski’s Solaris. She often combines conducting with performance activities, such as in the performance Little Thunder. Saint Catherine of Siena realized with an international cast in the spirit of post-Grotowski devised theater.
In 2013-2018 she worked as an assistant conductor in Polish National Opera in Warsaw with maestro Gabriel Chmura, Stefan Soltesz, Judith Yan, Carlo Montanaro, Łukasz Borowicz, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Andrey Yurkevich. As a conductor, she has collaborated with the Szczecin, Dolnośląska, Świętokrzyska, Zielona Góra Philharmonic, Cappella Regia Polona and the Sinfonietta of the Polish Royal Opera, Sinfonietta Cracovia. She recorded music that sounded at the Polish Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2021-2022.
She is involved in music education at various levels, leading, among others, mixed orchestra at the Oskar Kolberg in Warsaw, workshops for the Hashtag Lab, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute and music festivals.
The conductor
She mainly deals with opera, contemporary and early music. She is fascinated by the interpenetration of the fields of art: opera, theater, music, visual arts, as well as work in the field of voice, body and movement. She treats music and theater as a tool for analyzing and commenting on reality.
She graduated from symphony and opera conducting at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of prof. Marek Pijarowski (2011). She also improved her conducting skills with maestro Collin Metters, Jonatthan Brett, Jerzy Salwarowski and Carlo Montanaro during master classes.
In the years 2013-2018 she collaborated with the Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera as an assistant conductor, incl. Gabriel Chmura, Stefan Soltesz, Judith Yan, Carlo Montanaro, Łukasz Borowicz, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Andrey Yurkevich. As a conductor, she has collaborated with the Szczecin, Dolnośląska, Świętokrzyska, Zielona Góra Philharmonic, Cappella Regia Polona and the Sinfonietta of the Polish Royal Opera. She recorded music that sounded at the Polish Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2021-2022.
She understands opera as a genre broadly – he conducts both classic works (“The Barber of Seville” by G. Rossini, “Don Giovanni” and “Bastien und Bastienne” by W.A. Mozart), classics of the 20th century (“The Rape of Lucretia” or “The Turn of the Screw “By B. Britten,” Luci mie traditrici “by S. Sciarrino), as well as works that redefine the concept of opera (eg” Fake Opera “by W. Błażejczyk). He also has experience in independent, non-institutional realization of stage and multi-genre works. She also has experience in leading opera choirs and vocal ensembles – she was the manager of these ensembles at the Warsaw Chamber Opera and the Polish Royal Opera.
In the field of contemporary music, she made her debut at the “Warsaw Autumn” Festival, leading the first in Poland stage performance of Salvatore Sciarrino’s opera “Luci mie traditrici” (2016). The performance was shown during the New Opera Days Ostrava 2018. Since then, it has regularly appeared at this and other festivals of contemporary music in Poland and abroad. He collaborates with ensembles specializing in performing new music, such as Ostravska Banda, Ensemble Via Nova, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble and Hashtag Ensemble, of which he has been a permanent member since October 2017.
He collaborates in the production of theater performances with the leading role of music – with the Pieśń z Kozła Theater (Wrocław, China, Romania), with the Polski Theater in Poznań (“Trojanki” 2016), with the international group Julianna Bloodgood (Little Thunder. Santa Catherina from Siena 2021- 2022).
He is involved in music education at various levels, leading, among others, mixed orchestra at the Oskar Kolberg in Warsaw, workshops for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute and music festivals.