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Iwona Sobotka gained international recognition as the Grand Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium. She has also been honoured with First Prize at the Warsaw Polish Art Song Competition and First Prize at the East & West Artists International Auditions in New York, leading to her debut performance at Carnegie Hall.
Highlights of previous seasons encompassed numerous symphonic programs with Sir Simon Rattle, including Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives and his Symphony No. 9 with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with Staatskapelle Berlin, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, and Brahms’ German Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra. Elsewhere, she appeared with orchestras of note, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Vienna Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and Nashville Symphony, among others, working with many of today’s pre-eminent conductors, such as Sir Colin Davis, Marek Janowski, Vladimir Jurowski, Marco Armiliato, Teodor Currentzis, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Juanjo Mena, and Massimo Zanetti.
Iwona Sobotka made her operatic debut at the National Opera in Paris in 2004, portraying roles of the First Lady in The Magic Flute and Ygraine in Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. She also participated in the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, taking on the title role in Halka and performing as Liù in Turandot. Her Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden debut saw her as a Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal, performing with the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle. Notably, she portrayed Pamina in Barrie Kosky’s renowned production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Komische Oper Berlin, followed by an international tour across Australia, New Zealand, Macao, and Taiwan.