Poznan Boys' Choir

The Poznan Boys' Choir gave over 2200 concerts in countries on 4 continents. It took part in numerous prestigious musical festivals and performed world premieres of significant composers in Carnegie Hall, The Berlin Philharmonic and The Vienna Musikverein. During its activity, The Poznan Boys' Choir created a new brand in both Polish and world culture. It revealed its crowning achievements during a maginificent concert in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, opening the Polish Season in France (May, 2003). The Poznan Boys' Choir has been functioning with the modern institutional form, management and Director - Jacek Sykulski. Earlier, it was well recognized in Poland and abroad as "Polish Nightingales". The choir cooperates with excellent composers, orchestras, conductors and music ensembles. In collaboration with contemporary artists it realises projects combining different arts (the “Teledysk” project with Pawel Althamer, the prestigious Vincent laureate-sculptor, and Jacek Taszakowski, a JachFilm award-winner filmmaker; artistic projects by Zbigniew Lowzyl and others) and music styles (e.g. at the invitation of TAKE 6, an outstanding jazz-soul vocal ensemble, the choir appeared during their concert in November 2003). The choir was founded by Jerzy Kurczewski (1924 – 1995), an outstanding conductor, pedagogue and authority on choral singing. Kurczewski created the only of its kind choir school in Poland, existing since 1957. The new Poznan Boys Choir, and at the same time the youngest Poznan’s professional ensemble, is managed by a three-person team of enthusiast. Its current director is Jacek Sykulski – a composer and conductor. Marcin Poprawski was co-framer of new institution from bases as director for organizational matters, now his work is proceeding by Joanna Theuss.