The NFM choir was founded in 2006 by Andrzej Kosendiak as a resident ensemble of the Wrocław Philharmonic. Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny has been its artistic director from the very beginning.
The choir quickly gained recognition, performing both a cappella repertoire and large vocal-instrumental forms. It has collaborated, among others with such conductors as B. Chilcott, I. Fischer, J. Kaspszyk, S. Layton, J. MacMillan and K. Penderecki, and orchestras: the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Il Giardino Armonico, and NOSPR.
It has appeared in over 300 concerts, including at the Barbican Center, Royal Albert Hall, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Paris Philharmonic and Salle Pleyel in Paris as well as at numerous festivals in Poland and internationally.
In the discography of the choir, we find a series of recordings under the direction of P. McCreesh issued by Winged Lion, as well as a cappella recordings, including De profundis awarded with Fryderyk. In 2018, the Ubi caritas album, The Phantoms by S. Moniuszko featuring the NFM Choir and the Ninth Symphony by L. van Beethoven (director G. Antonini) were released.
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