JOANNA KURZYŃSKA
jk.voiceinprogress@gmail.com
http://en.grotowski-institute.pl/projekty/voice-progress-studio/
Joanna Kurzyńska comes from Wrocław in Poland. A violinist by profession (she obtained a diploma of an artist in music with the abbreviation “MA” at the K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław), but she will play everything she needs. Sometimes she is an actress and theatre director, sometimes she is also a composer, quite often she is a singer and teaches acting and voice work. Co-founder of the Youth Academy of Musical in Wrocław, where since 2009 she has been teaching acting classes and directing performances with the participation of pupils.
She developed her acting and vocal skills under the supervision of Polish and foreign educators and practitioners, e.g. Janusz Józefowicz, Janusz Stokłosa, Elżbieta Zapendowska, Katarzyna Groniec, Ewa Głowacka-Fierek, Małgorzata Jaworska-Kaczmarek, Emma Bonnici, Charlotte Xerri, Designated Linklater Teachers – Francoise Walot, Nicola Collett, Anne Alanne, Kimberly White, Judith Shahn, Leonardo Gambardella, Alessandro Fabrizi, as well as Kristin Linklater. In her quest, she visited the Roy Hart Voice Centre, Attis Theatre, Kristin Linklater Voice Centre, Estill Voice Training schools and musical theatre schools in London.
She made her debut in 2000 in the musical “Peter Pan” at the ROMA Musical Theater in Warsaw, which was performed over 200 times. Laureate of many song interpretation festivals in Poland. Honored with the Artistic Scholarship of the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, under which she created her own music project “I will come to myself” (EP album recorded in 2014), the Soroptimist International scholarship, Fran Bennett Scholarship and the Creative Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, which gave rise to her own research path Voice In Progress. Until recently, she collaborated with the vocal-instrumental band SUTARI. Currently associated with the Institute of J. Grotowski in Wrocław mainly through Studio Kokyu (co-running the Studio’s research and workshop line with Przemysław Błaszczak, the performance “Halo?” in 2018, “Action Medea” in 2022, the Studio’s current projects) and the original Studio Voice In Progress, in which conducts research on the source, possibilities and meaning of the human voice, with a special attention to Linklater Voice Method.
Joanna shares her practical knowledge of voice training with pupils, students and performers from around the world, conducting acting and voice work workshops.
Honored with the medal “Meritorious for Polish Culture” in December 2021.
In August 2023 she became Designated Linklater Teacher.