Soprano Iwona Sobotka achieved international acclaim as the Grand Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium. Other awards include First Prize at the Warsaw Polish Art Song Competition and First Prize at the East & West Artists International Auditions in New York, resulting in her debut concert in Carnegie Hall. Highlights of her 2019/20 season include concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle in Beethoven’s »Christ on the Mount of Olives«, London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle in Berg’s »Lulu« suite at Festspiele Baden-Baden, as well as her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele under Marek Janowski in Beethoven 9th Symphony amongst others. Iwona Sobotka is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.