ABOUT
Hi! I’m Joanna Sojka a lyric-coloratura soprano with a deep love for classical music.
Joanna Sojka is a lyric-coloratura soprano. In 2014 graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland.In 2016/2017 she studied singing in University of Arts Bremen at the class of Peter Kooij and Katharina Rössner-Stütz.
Prize winner of 3rd International Early Music Vocal Competition “Canticum Gaudium” in Poznań, Poland. She won a distinction at the 4th International Competition of Solo Sacred Singing “Ars et gloria” in Katowice, Poland.
She made her stage debut as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell at the Grand Theatre in Poznań. Since then, she has taken part in acclaimed opera productions in Poland and abroad, performing roles such as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart at the Opera at the Castle in Szczecin, Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice by C. W. Gluck at Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Nina in Il giovedì grasso and Serafina in Il campanello by G. Donizetti, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell, Cleone/Une Ombre Heureuse/Une suivante de Phebe in Castor et Pollux by J. Ph. Rameau, and Abra in Juditha Triumphans by A. Vivaldi at the Warsaw Chamber Opera.
She also performed the role of Donna Anna in a semi-staged production of Don Giovanni at the Opera Rara Festival in Krakow. Marzia in Arminio by J. A. Hasse at the Gliwice Theatre and Eurinda in Moro per amore by A. Stradella at the Roman Palazzo Altemps Theatre. In concert versions, she has taken on important roles such as Sifare in Mitridate, re di Ponto by W. A. Mozart under the baton of Philippe Jaroussky at the Opera Rara Festival, Megacles in L’Olimpiade by A. Vivaldi conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini at NFM, Celia in Lucio Silla by W. A. Mozart at the Słowacki Theatre in Kraków, and Nitocris in the oratorio Belshazzar by G. F. Handel under the direction of Christina Pluhar.
Her repertoire includes both opera and oratorio works, such as the roles of the Queen of the Night, Sifare, Donna Anna, and Susanna (Mozart), Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi), Amina in La Sonnambula and Elvira in I Puritani (Bellini), Juliet in Roméo et Juliette (Gounod), Adele in Die Fledermaus (Strauss), Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss), and Morgana in Alcina (Handel). She also performs oratorios such as Carmina Burana, The Creation, The Seasons, Great Mass in C minor, Messiah, Poulenc’s Gloria, as well as Polish and international art songs. Thanks to her vocal flexibility and unique timbre, she is also active in film music repertoire.
She has performed with many esteemed orchestras and ensembles, including Sinfonietta Cracovia, Sinfonia Varsovia, Capella Cracoviensis, Arte dei Suonatori, {oh!} Historical Orchestra, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, and Baroque Collegium 1685. Her performances have been part of prestigious festivals such as Misteria Paschalia, Opera Rara, Actus Humanus, as well as Tage Alte Musik Regensburg and Händel-Festspiele Halle. She has collaborated with philharmonic orchestras in Szczecin, Łódź, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Koszalin, Kraków, and many other cities. She has performed under the baton of renowned conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Joshua Rifkin, Dirk Vermeulen, and Dirk Brossé.
An important place in the repertoire of the artist is occupied by the following parts: Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) – Ch. W. Gluck; Angelica (Orlando), Morgana (Alcina) – G.F. Haendel; Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Ilia (Idomoneo), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Sifare (Mitridate and the King of Pontus) – W. A. Mozart; Elvira (I Puriani), Amina (The Sleepwalker) – V. Bellini; Gilda (Rigoletto) G. Verdi; Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) Ch. Gounod; Zerbinetta (Ariadne on Naxos) – R. Strauss; Adela (Die Fledermaus) – J. Strauss as well as oratorio music including Messiah, Samson, The Creation of the World, Great Mass in C minor KV 427, The Seasons, Carmina Burana, Poulec’s Gloria and Polish and foreign songs.
Her discography includes songs by Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, works by Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tomasz Baird as well as pieces by G. F. Haendel, Joseph Haydn and Mozart.
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