Ewa Bandrowska-Turska

Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (20 May 1894 – 25 June 1979) was a Polish coloratura soprano and music educator. Her repertoire ranged from early music to early 20th-century classical music. She toured both throughout Europe and the United States and she was awarded multiple cultural prizes including the Officer's Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland and the Polish National Prize, First Class.

Biography Ewa Helena Bandrowska-Turska was born on 20 May 1894 in Kraków, Poland. From 1911 to 1913, she studied music in Kraków with her uncle, , who was an operatic tenor, and then studied with the Polish soprano She performed extensively including venues in Bratislava, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Leningrad, Moscow, New York, Nice, Odessa, Ostend, Paris, Sofia, and Stockholm. and was still being shown in tours in the United States in 1944 and 1945. In 1939, a special trans-Atlantic broadcast was set up from the Royal Castle in Cracow to the United States. Bandrowska-Turska performed four songs by Karol Szymanowski for U.S. audiences. From 1945 to 1949 Bandrowska-Turska served as a music professor at the State Academy of Music in Kraków and then from 1949 to 1951, she taught at the College of Opera in Poznań. and Alexander Arutiunian's concerto for coloratura soprano. Lyric operas were her specialty, and she performed in Puccini's La bohème, Verdi's La traviata, and both Manon and Werther by Jules Massenet. In 1949, she received the Order of the Banner of Work, First Class from president Bolesław Bierut and in 1952 she was awarded the Polish National Prize First Class. Bandrowska-Turska died in Warsaw on 25 June 1979.