Polish mezzo-soprano Marta Wryk is a recitalist and opera singerwho performs throughout the United States and in Europe. In New York City, she has appeared at Symphony Space, the Caramoor Music Festival, the Kosciuszko Foundation, and the DUMBO Arts Festival. She has performed at Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in Germany and the International Festival Art-Connection in Rotterdam, and in Poland she has performed at the Forum of Baroque Music in Warsaw, the University Hall in Poznan, and at the Chopin Konfrontacje Festival in Antonin. Opera credits include: Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Mirtillo in Handel`s Il Pastor Fidoand Third Lady in The Magic Flutewith Manhattan School of Music andElisabeth Proctor in The Cruciblewith Chautauqua Institution.She alsocovered Gondi in Maria di Rohanand Clotilde in Normaat the Bel Canto at the Caramoor Festival.
Ms. Wryk has been praised by Bruce-Michael Gelbert in Q on Stagefor her “radiance [and her] clear soundand assured presence,” and by Roman Markowicz in the Polish Daily News for her “noble sound and natural stage presence.”Recently, Ms. Wryk wonan encouragement prize at the Career Bridges Competition and firstprize at the International Voice Competition in Gorizia, Italy.
Ms. Wryk performed in Symphony Space in New York with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and in Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the pianist Kevin Kenner and the cellist William De Rosa. She hasappeared in the Music at the White Hall concert series at the invitation of the Henryk Wieniawski Music Society in Poznan, Poland, and has performed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory at the invitation of Dr. James Watson, the Nobel Prize laureate. Other recent concert tours took her toPordenone in Italy, Los Angles, San Diego, Miami and Toronto, where she performed arias from Carmen with the Toronto Sinfonietta.
In addition to musical performance, Ms. Wryk is a musicologist and writer. Her work has been published in Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s major daily newspaper, and in literature journals and magazines including Zeszyty Literackie and Arkusz. Her music journalism appears in Polish Daily News. She teaches classes about opera to gifted children through the Polish Children’s Fund’s Summer Workshop. She has received awards from the Prime Minister of Poland and the Ministry of Education, and scholarships from the Leszek Czarnecki Foundation, the Business and Professional Women`s Club, the Lions Club Polonia and the Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union. She was also awarded the Carolyn Marlow Vocal Scholarship from the Manhattan School of Music. MsWryk holds a degree from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsawand from Manhattan School of Music.
She will have her professional debut in the role of Aglaonice in Philip Glass’ Orphée with the Virginia Opera, where Ms. Wryk will be a resident artist for the 2011/2012 season.