Musicologist, conductor and vocalist Wlodzimierz Soltysik

Born in 1962 in Warsaw, Poland, Wlodzimierz Soltysik is a musicologist, conductor and vocalist who has collaborated with leading Polish singers, numerous choirs and early music ensembles, such as Ars Nova, the Bornus Consort, and Concerto Polacco. In 1985 he founded the Cantio Polonica Male Ensemble (3rd award at the 1988 Guido d'Arezzo International Competition). In 1988 he established the Cantus Firmus Chamber Singers which has made many recordings, including the first recording of psalms by Polish renaissance composer Nicolaus Gomolka, and the first disc recording of Conductus funebris, by Gorczycki, one of the masterpieces of Polish Baroque music.

Soltysik has performed internationally in Europe and North America, and has recorded several hundred works for Polish radio, and a dozen CDs along with incidental music for theater and film. In 1991, with Marcin Mazur, he formed Triangiel Music Publishing, which is now the most important publishing house in Poland for choral music. This company has published many contemporary Polish choral works. He has edited numerous anthologies of Christmas carols, canons, ancient songs, folk spirituals, and other vocal works, along with works by prominent composers, including several first publications. He has a special research interest in Polish Christmas carols, secular polyphonic songs, the madrigals of Elizabethan England and the development of the vocal canon in Europe.

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