{"id":22035,"date":"2022-02-16T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/?post_type=cmim-competitors&#038;p=22035"},"modified":"2022-06-20T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:25:47","slug":"karoline-podolak","status":"publish","type":"cmim-competitors","link":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/competitors\/karoline-podolak\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Podolak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Voice 2022 \u2013 Aria Division<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-69 maxbutton maxbutton-voice-2022\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/about\/archives\/voice-2022\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Voice 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Soprano<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2022: Canadian-Polish soprano Karoline Podolak comes to the 2022 Concours after a whirlwind year of international competition wins. In 2021 alone, she took First Prize at the Polish Academy of Music Tournament and both First Prize and Audience Prize at the XVII Great Tenor Gala in Poland, and was a semifinalist at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino in Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Toronto-born soprano attended Ryerson University\u2019s Radio and Television Arts School of Media before pursuing a degree in opera studies at the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Poland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Podolak made her operatic debut at Poland\u2019s Silesian Opera House, premiering Moniusko\u2019s Verbum Nobile and later returning to sing the adventurous Adele in <em>Die Fledermaus<\/em>. This season she debuted at Sofia Opera and Ballet as Violetta in <em>La traviata<\/em>, and as Zerlina in <em>Don Giovanni<\/em> at <em>Teatro Coccia<\/em> in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Training<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2019-2021: Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, Master&#8217;s Degree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2011-2015: Ryerson University, Bachelor&#8217;s Degree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Principal Teachers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Kinga Mitrowska, 2016-present<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ewa Biegas, 2019-2021<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Grzegorz Biegas, 2019-2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Prizes\u00a0and Awards<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2022: Encouragement Award winner at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Great Lakes Region Finals<\/li>\n<li>2022: Award winner at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Buffalo\/Toronto<\/li>\n<li>2021: Winner of seven prizes,\u00a0<em>Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques,\u00a0<\/em>Montr\u00e9al<\/li>\n<li>2021: First Prize, Polish Academy of Music Tournament, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/li>\n<li>2021: Audience Prize\/First Prize, XVII Great Tenor Gala Festival, Ciechocinek, Poland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Programme<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>FIRST ROUND (with piano)<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>AMBROISE THOMAS<\/strong> Je suis Titania<br \/><em>(Mignon)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>KAROL SZYMANOWSKI<\/strong> Pie\u015b\u0144 Roksany<br \/><em>(King Roger) <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>GIACOMO MEYERBEER<\/strong> Ombre l\u00e9g\u00e8re<em>(The Pilgrimage of Plo\u00ebrmel)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karolinepodolak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Karoline Podolak is generously sponsored by Janine Bombardier &amp; Sadok Besrour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/competitors\/julia-sitkovetsky\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17690 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/next-button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-75 maxbutton maxbutton-support-the-concours\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/support\/donate\/\"><span class='mb-text'>SUPPORT THE CONCOURS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice 2022 \u2013 Aria Division \u00a0 Soprano \u00a0 2022: Canadian-Polish soprano Karoline Podolak comes to the 2022 Concours after a whirlwind year of international competition wins. In 2021 alone, she took First Prize at the Polish Academy of Music Tournament and both First Prize and Audience Prize at the XVII Great Tenor Gala in Poland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22315,"template":"","class_list":["post-22035","cmim-competitors","type-cmim-competitors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cmim_competitors_photo_credits":"","cmim_competitors_date_of_birth":"11\/02\/1993","cmim_competitors_country":"Canada | Poland","cmim_competitors_range":"Soprano"},"featured_media_src_url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Karoline_Podolak-voix2022-01-400.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors\/22035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cmim-competitors"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors\/22035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25509,"href":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors\/22035\/revisions\/25509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}