10.11.2023

Olivia Business Centre Choir

The Olivia Business Centre Choir is a group of sensitive people who love choral music and making music together. Olivia Business Centre’s musical adventure with choral music began in 2018, when a casting for the conductor of the newly formed Choir was announced at Bayer. It was won by Wiktoria Batarowska, who supports the development of the choir. On the joint initiative of Bayer and Olivia Business Centre, the Choir spread its wings and expanded its activities throughout the OBC. Currently, the team consists of about 50 people and brings together representatives of over a dozen Olivia’s resident companies, such as m. among others. Bayer, AirHelp, Energa, GFKM, Nordea, OBC, PwC, Sii, Talkersi and Thyssenkrupp. The choir conducts a wide range of concerts and adds splendour to celebrations organized mainly by the OBC. The repertoire of the Olivia Business Centre Choir includes mainly popular music as well as classical music, as well as carols and pastorals from different parts of the world.

Wiktoria Batarowska – conductor
of the Olivia Business Centre Choir

Born. in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, in a family with musical traditions. A scholarship holder of the Government of the Republic of Poland (2006-2011), a graduate of the Faculty of Choral Conducting, Music Education and Eurhythmics at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. St. Moniuszko in the class of prof. esp. Ph.D. W. Górski (M.A., diploma with honors) and the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk (M.A. in Philology). Originator, organizer and leader of numerous vocal and choral workshops in Pomerania. President of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Association of Choirs and Orchestras (2012-2014).

Founder and conductor of the Tutti e Solo Chamber Choir (2009-2017) at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, conductor of the SSW Mundus Cantat Choir (2012-2015), the Kashubian Bell Men’s Choir (2009-2012), the Genius LOci Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble (since 2017) and the Bayer Choir at the OBC (2018-2019). Assistant Conductor University Choir Academy of Music in Gdańsk (2012-2016). As a conductor, he has won several Grand Prix awards as well as prestigious awards and distinctions on the national and international arena. She also developed her conducting and vocal practice in Cappelli Gedanesis, the Academic Choir of the University of Gdańsk, the Polish National Youth Choir and as part of doctoral studies in Choir of the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Toruń Symphony Orchestra or Lower Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra.

An active and passive participant of numerous seminars, workshops and conducting conferences. Participant of the 13th Competition of Choral Conductors in Poznań and the 6th International Choral Conducting Tournament ” Towards Polyphony ” in Wrocław. She has received numerous scholarships from the Rector of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk for the best students and doctoral students. One of the most important awards (preparation of the University Choir of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk) is the Fryderyk 2014 Award of the Phonographic Academy in the category Album of the Year. Symphonic and concertante music: Angelus, Exodus, Victoria under dir. Prof. Zygmunt Rychert.

Repertoire:

  1. “El ultimo Cafe” by H. Stamponi
  2. “Prende la Vela” by L. Bermündez
  3. “Volare” by D. Modugno
  4. “Oh Happy Day” by D. Howard
  5. “Can’t help folling in love” L. Creatore
  6. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by A. Harlen
  7. “Shchedryk” M. Leonovych
  8. “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” arr. A. Raugh

Members of the OBC Choir:

 

SOPRANOS

1) Dorota Bednarczyk

2) Brejta Natalia

3) Martyna Drobotowicz

4) Ewatowska Aneta

5) Philadelphia Patricia

6) Ivanna Havryliuk

7) Kirillova Elena

8) Nuthatch Iga

9) Kwidzińska Ida

10) Lejkowska Karolina

11) Karolina Lewandowska

12) Caroline Lubinska

13) Moksa Martha

14) Margaret Must

15) Synoradzka Patricia

16) Zaborowska Katarzyna

17) Agnes Zahorska

18) Maryana Zamishchak

ALTOS

1) Blazejewska Alice

2) Monika Chmarzyńska

3) Margaret Nail

4) Magda Kamińska

5) Anna Lewandowska

6) Isabella Thumb

7) Peszek Alexander

8) Catherine Heel

9) Roskosz Catherine

10) Ross Dominic

11) Rylska Aleksandra

12) Sienkiewicz Joanna

13) Elizabeth Sumionka

14) Syvokobylenko Olena

15) Dorothy Wojsiat

16) Zyborowicz-Dubalis Agata (holidays)

 

TENORS

1) Christopher Dolański

2) Piętka Radosław

3) Potts Hamish

4) Wojciechowski Remigiusz

 

 

BASS

1) Michael Broeker

2) Geba Tom

3) Godlewski Wojciech

4) Robert Mound

5) Jacob Lorenc

6) Wojciech Żółtkowski

7) Sirocki Wojciech

 

 

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