Agata Bie\u0144kowska was born in Poland. She trained in Gda\u0144sk and Stuttgart, further refining her skills in singing and stage performance under the guidance of Julia Hamari and Robert Hiller (chamber music). Her talent has been recognised by prestigious institutions such as the Wagner-Verband Stuttgart, the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, the DAAD (Germany), the Rotary Foundation of Stuttgart, and by Maestro Luciano Pavarotti, who awarded her the Donizetti Prize at the Teatro di Bergamo in 2006.
She has successfully participated in numerous international competitions, including the Belvedere Competition in Vienna, the Luxembourg International S. Geszty Competition, the European Union Competition, and the P. Domingo Operalia. She made her operatic debut at a very young age in Gda\u0144sk and Stuttgart (Mozart roles, Nero in L\u2019incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi, and Romeo in Bellini\u2019s I Capuleti e i Montecchi) and in 1998 took part in the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro. In 1999 she made her debut at the Teatro Massimo under the baton of Daniel Oren.
From that moment on, she became a regular guest at leading theatres and festivals in Italy and abroad: Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di San Carlo, the theatres of Modena, Verona, Ferrara, Cesena and Pisa, the Rossini Opera Festival, the Festival della Toscana, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Royal de Wallonie, the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, the Teatro de La Maestranza in Seville, the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Wexford Opera Festival, the Festival de Musique de Strasbourg, and many others.
She has collaborated with conductors of the calibre of N. Santi, A. Zedda, J. Neschling, V. Jurowski, D. Callegari, S. Ranzani, C. Rousset, A. De Marchi, Y. P. Tortelier, G. Gelmetti, and J. L. Cobos, as well as with renowned stage directors such as Dario Fo, Roberto De Simone, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi and Graham Vick, performing alongside artists such as M. Freni, M. Devia, G. Surnian, G. Kunde and J. D. Fl\u00f3rez.
Possessing remarkable versatility and rare linguistic fluency (she speaks seven languages), her interpretative sensitivity ranges from Monteverdi to contemporary music, with a particular focus on the bel canto repertoire. She has also collaborated with Baroque music ensembles. Her discography is extensive and includes rare works by Rossini, Massenet, Mercadante, Mosca, C.P.E. Bach and Handel, as well as world premiere recordings such as La prima Diva, dedicated to Faustina Bordoni, and the oratorio Dalla morte alla vita di Santa Maria Maddalena by Leonardo Leo.
Alongside her artistic activity, she has pursued an academic and teaching career: in 2017 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (PhD). In 2024, the President of the Republic of Poland conferred upon her the title of Professor in the discipline of Musical Arts, the highest national academic distinction. Agata Bie\u0144kowska is Professor of Voice at the Rossini Conservatoire in Pesaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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