Dominika Zamara
Festival Guest Artist (Poland)
Soprano
Soprano Dominika Zamara was born 11 August 1981 in Wroclaw. In 2007 she gained an honours degree at
Karol Lipinski Musical Academy in Wroclaw (vocal faculty). Her teacher was Barbara Ewa Werner. During a
one year scholarship at the Italian Musical Conservatory in Verona she received vocal coaching from such
masters of bel-canto as Bruno Pola, Alida Ferrarini, Enrico De Mori, Mario Melani and Alessandra Althoff-
Pugliese.
Dominika has worked with numerous artistic organisations in Europe and the United States. In 2008 she
toured France with outstanding French organist Fabrice Pitrois, and sang at the National Theatre in
Montenegro (in the former Yugoslavia) in the presence of the country’s President. The concert was
broadcast.
In 2009 she gave her Italian debut in Padua as Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme, and as Giorgietta and a lover in
the same composer’s II Tabarro. She gave numerous orchestral performances under the direction of Italian
Maestro Enrico De Mori (also conductor at Teatro alla Scala). The following year she gave recitals in Vienna
with the pianist Cezary Kwapisz, and performed Italian bel-canto arias and songs by Polish romantic
composers. In addition Dominika performed in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Laudate Pueri throughout most of Italy
accompanied by an orchestra under the direction of Maestro Paolo Fumei.
2011 saw Dominika taking the main part in the world premiere of the opera Tramonto Coronaro under the
direction of Maestro Stefano Carlini at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. Dominika also gave concerts, recitals
and operas in several European countries, such as Spain, Las Palmas, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Austria and
France, and performed the role of Silvia in Mascagni’s opera Zanetto. Her debut in the United States came
the following year at the Warner Grand Theater in Los Angeles with the composer/conductor Maria
Newman and the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra. Concerts followed in Malibu, New York and in Arkansas
with and orchestra under the management of Maestro Thomas Chun-Yu-Chen. These concerts formed part
of the Festival of Classical Music.
Back in Italy, Dominika performed in Rome at Teatro Orione in 2013. This concert was televised. Concerts of
church music with Maestro VincevTempera followed at the Basilica Padre Pio in Pietrelcina. During the
Award Gala in Vienna she received the Golden Owl (the equivalent the Polish Community Oscar) for
classical music. Her debut in the role of Rosina in Rossini’s II Barbiere di Siviglia took place the same year.
A notable innovation in 2013 was her tour in the United States with the classical guitarist Stanley
Alexandrowicz, visiting New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Princeton and Baltimore, and
performing opera arias and contemporary music - both with guitar accompaniment.
In Dallas, Texas, she sang Puccini arias of as part of the CICA Music Festival. Shortly afterwards she gave her
debut in the highly prestigious Avery Fischer Concert Hall in New York, an event compèred by the distinguished American actor Kevin Spacey. On her return to Italy, Dominika performed the main roles from
Pergolesi’s opera La Serva Padrona in several Italian opera houses under the baton of Maestro Claudio
Colmanet. The same year, in Marcone, Dominika received the international Padre Pio Award.
Another milestone in contemporary music was achieved in 2014 when Dominika sang the main role in the
contemporary opera Vincenzo Faggiano La Serva di Padova at the Teatro Verdi in Padua. In the same year
she participated in a DVD recording for Italian Television Cremona of Vivaldi’s Laudate Pueri and Mozart’s
Exultate Jubilate with conductor Maestro Paolo Fumei. The success of this DVD led to Dominika receiving
an A.N.L.A.I Stradivari Award in Cremona.
During the Festival Of The Classical Music Evmelia in Greece Dominika performed with accompanist Ramzi
Shomali. Subsequently she performed in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in several Italian churches with the
orchestra La Certosa.
On a return trip to the USA, Dominika sang in New Jersey with a Baroque Orchestra under the direction of
Maestro Robert W. Butts. In this concert a special guest was the Vatican-based composer Monsignor Marco
Frisina.
Dominika’s Mexican debut took place in 2014 with the pianist Alejandro Barranon in the Manuel Ponce
auditorium, the most celebrated concert hall in Latin America. In 2015, the year of this recording, Dominika
took the role of Serpina in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona conducted by Maestro Robert Butts at the
Pontificio Istututo di Musica Sacra in Rome.
Besides her busy performing career, Dominika has worked as the Associate Professor of Voice at the Italian
Accademia La Certosa, and has recorded two CDs for Edit Music Italy.
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