Born in 1985, she began her music education at the age of five learning the piano. She graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (UMFC) in Warsaw in 2008, in the symphony and opera conducting class of Prof. Marek Pijarowski, conducting a concert with the Polish Radio Orchestra. At present she is a final-year student of the piano class of Prof. Elżbieta Karaś-Krasztel (UMFC). She has honed her skills at the master classes of conductors such as Colin Metters, Gabriel Chmura, Jerzy Salwarowski, Bruno Weil, José Miguel Rodilla.

   Since the start of the 2008/2009 season Kluczyńska has been an assistant conductor at the Polish National Opera, where she debuted conducting a performance of In the Land of the Magic Flute. She has worked here with many conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Gabriel Chmura, Jacek Kaspszyk, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Roland Boer, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Miguel Gomez-Martinez, Marek Moś, and Wojciech Michniewski. She was the assistant conductor for the operas Le Nozze di Figaro, Lucrezia Borgia, Faust, La Traviata, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, Elektra, King Roger, The Passenger, and many others.

   In the 2009/2010 academic year she began teaching at the UMFC’s vocal faculty, which resulted in regular collaboration with this faculty’s students and the UMFC Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has conducted Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera Halka (Vilnius version; Chamber Stage of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera), Franz Schubert’s singspiel Die Verschworenen, and also prepared the premiere of Moniuszko’s The Ghosts (a production performed many times, including at the Collegium Nobilium theatre). In February 2011 she conducted a concert performance of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème with the UMFC Symphony Orchestra, students of the vocal faculty, and the Warsaw Inter-University Choir.

   She has taken part in many leading music festivals (including Warsaw Autumn 2010 - conducting the Scontri Ensemble promoting music by young Polish composers). She has also taken part in workshops held as part of the ENOA (European Network of Opera Academies) programme - Edinburgh Festival (UK) 2010,  Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France) 2011.

   In May 2011 Kluczyńska received the prize for the best Polish participant in the 5th Witold Lutosławski International Contest for Young Conductors. In the current season at the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera she is conducting performances of the ballet And the Rain Will Pass… to music by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Tristan, and Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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