Participants Universitas Cantat 2024

Chamber Choir of Poznań ”Fermata” of University of Arts in Poznań, POLAND
Conductor: dr Mateusz MJ Sibilski

Chamber Choir of Poznań ”Fermata” of University of Arts in Poznań
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FERMATA Chamber Choir of the University of the Arts Poznan is a small group of singing enthusiasts from Poznań. The group consists of students and graduates of Poznań universities who share a passion for chamber and often even solo performances of all kinds of vocal music. The repertoire of this group includes masterpieces of early music as well as works written specifically for Fermata by more contemporary artists. The choir also sings popular hits of pop music and jazz. Thanks to such an extensive repertoire, Fermata is often invited to take part in important concerts, prestigious festivals and academic events. The group was founded in 1990 by Dr Mateusz MJ Sibilski who has always been the choir’s artistic director. It is the 34th artistic season of the ensemble and almost 35 years of operation of the choir have resulted in numerous top prizes won in Polish and European competitions. Fermata has a lot of phonographic works including six albums. Polish music has a special place in the choir’s library.

Dr Mateusz MJ Sibilski, born in Poznań, graduated from the Academy of Music in Poznań where he studied music education as well as symphonic conducting. He was also associated with the Academy of Music in Wrocław during his symphonic conducting studies in the class of prof. Marek Pijarowski. Dr Sibilski is an active conductor combining work with professional music institutions and the amateur movement. 

As a conductor he has always been associated with the choir Fermata, since 2007 - with the Brass Band Volunteer Fire Department of Murowana Goślina, and as a teacher - with the University of Communications and Management in Poznań. In 2010 he started teaching conducting at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź (from 2013 as an assistant professor). From 2013 to 2016 he was employed as an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Poznań at the department of Symphony and Opera Conducting. Since October 2017 he has been the artistic director of the University Orchestra of the Center for Student Culture at the University of Life Sciences in Poznań. 

He has recently performed Carl Orff's Carmina Burana cantata with the dancers of the Wielkopolski Polish Dance Club, students of the General Ballet School, the choir of the Grand Theatre and the orchestra at the Earth Hall for the 100th anniversary of the University of Life Sciences.

Recently, he has given concerts with the film music project in Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand.

 University of Arts in Poznań, POLAND