Ewa Strusińska

Ewa Strusińska (b. 1976) is a Polish conductor born in Stalowa Wola. Studying at the Frédéric Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw she was awarded diplomas first in choral conducting, then in orchestral conducting in 2005 following a performance with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ewa Strusińska has worked with many orchestras including the Polish National Radio Orchestra, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonietta Baden. In 1997 she became conductor and artistic director of the Polish Choir Jeunesses Musicales with whom she was nominated for a Fryderyk Award in 2000. Also in 2000 she won the Grand Prix in the St. Petersburg Meetings Festival with the Choir "Tutti Cantamus". In 2005 she became assistant conductor of the Częstochowa Symphony Orchestra and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in the Karol Szymanowski Music School in Warsaw, moving to England in 2006 to take up a two year Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music under Mark Elder, conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. In 2007 she was appointed musical director to the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra. She was shortlisted for the Gustav Mahler Conducting Prize in 2007, taking fourth prize.

In 2008 she was offered a two year tenure as assistant conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.

External links

*http://www.nsso.org.uk/Ewa_Stusinska.htm
* [http://www.zpav.pl/nagroda_fryderyk.asp?page=nominowani_i_laureaci,2000&lang=en Fryderyk Awards Nominations listings: 2000]
*http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/02/ewa_strusinska_rising_star_of.html
*http://sheffieldphilharmonic.wordpress.com

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