Dear All! Welcome to my website!

I wrote a few paragraphs about myself to give you some insights into who I am and what I do. I am an actress, singer, speech therapist, art therapist, and music therapist. I am active in all these fields. I also teach at a university. 

I would love for you to listen to some of my singing. I used to sing only in the classical style, but then expanded my repertoire with different styles and genres, songs from the 20s, 30s, 50s, 60s, and lately also the 70s. I sing a lot of Polish repertoire but I’m not limited to it. Sometimes I also sing in musicals. 

Finding the scores to people's favorites used to be very difficult in Poland. The doors to the world were closed in that manner. But luckily that was before the internet era. Now so much more is within our reach. We can easily find out which bookstore in the world has one's desired scores. Then it's just a matter of finding a Polish translation of the lyrics (or translating them yourself), figuring out rhythmization, poetizing, and synchronizing with the music...and the piece is ready to be sung! I forgot to mention that sometimes I also sing in churches, for instance a beautiful Ave Maria at someone's wedding. It seems that almost every self-respecting composer makes it a point to write their own Ave Maria, so at this point we have actually many of them. I sing about 10 of them.  

On my website's blog, I'm going to touch on many subjects of the fields I'm involved in. I will talk about different aspects of voice emission; how to use one's voice in a way that will help it stay in its best shape throughout one's whole life; how to sing whatever one wants that is within one's vocal range, and what suites one psychologically to give joy, satisfaction and happiness. 

On my website, I will also share my skills in the field of the art therapy, which will include handmade cards. I’m fascinated by different techniques of card making that I’ve recently learned. Seeing other people's card work in various books and on YouTube has been educational. However, my artistic nature doesn't allow me to copy them. I just learn the techniques and then make them my own by developing and improving them. My current issue is making more than one card that looks the same. I easily get bored with repetition, so even if multiple cards are made in the same style, they are not identical. Well, in life nothing really repeats itself. Every moment is different from another one, and it is always new while the time moves forward and actually flies. Sometimes I think that's good because we have a chance for a better tomorrow. I will be presenting you with lots of my work. I hope you will enjoy it. 

Warm regards, Mariola