Agnieszka Frankow-Zelazny

Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, artistic director of the Polish National Youth Choir, is among Poland's leading choral conductors. She was for many years conductor of the NFM Choir in Wrocław and is also a prominent educator. In 2006, Franków-Żelazny became the director of the Philharmonic Choir of Wrocław, later renamed the NFM Choir. She remained in that post until 2021, leading the group to international awards and making several recordings, including Words Painted with Sounds in 2012. She is the artistic director of the Polish National Youth Choir, which she founded in 2012, and she has continued to work with the NFM Choir, leading it on a 2023 recording of Bob Chilcott's Canticles of Light.