Joanna Tylkowska-Drożdż

Graduate of the Faculty of Vocal Music and Drama at the Felix Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz; since 2010 – academic staff member at the Artistic Musical Education Department, and later – the Vocal Performance Department of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Initiator and organiser of International Vocal Workshops held in cooperation with the International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Kamień Pomorski. Founder of the Pomeranian Interculture Network foundation, which supports culture, art, and the educational activity of young artists. Soloist of the Szczecin Opera at the Castle, where she has made brilliant appearances in many leading roles, among others in operas by Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Leoncavallo, Mozart, Orff, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Szymanowski, and Verdi, as well as operettas by Gilbert, Kálmán, Lehár, Offenbach, and Johann Strauss II.

The artist performs and records extensively. Of particular note have been her masterful interpretation of Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder under the baton of Maestro Kerry Stratton, the album Il Tramonto (with the Baltic Neopolis Quartet) featuring outstanding Italian and Spanish chamber works, as well as the CD From Belcanto to Verismo, recorded in 2016 in Sofia with the eminent tenor Kamen Chanev and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Tylkowska-Drożdż is the recipient of an Amber Ring Award for the role of Nedda- Colombina in Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, as well as the Silver Honorary Badge of the West Pomeranian Griffin in recognition of her contributions to the region’s culture.

Joanna Tylkowska-Drożdż, DMus, Habil., professor of the Academy of Arts, is the author of, among others, the books The Szczecin City Theatre: An Outline of History (1849-1944) and Szczecin’s Musical Salons in the Nineteenth Century, both published (in Polish) in the series of monographs dedicated to Szczecin’s musical history.

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