Anna Serafińska


Anna Serafińska is a Polish jazz singer and academic teacher at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw.

Life and career

Serafińska is a granddaughter of the jazz singer Carmen Moreno and the saxophonist and band leader. She attended the music gymnasium in Katowice, where she focused on violin. She then studied jazz and pop at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music there. She became an assistant of the academy for a voice class in 1997. She graduated with a dissertation about singing in 2004.
In 1996 Serafińska was a choir member for Kasia Kowalska's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 in Oslo. She released her first album the following year, Nieobecni, of songs to texts by Jonasz Kofta. She released several more albums, and she participated in an album Singing Jazz of her grandmother in 2011. She has also worked as a coach for voice and as a director in film-synchronisation.
In 2008 Serafińska was appointed assistant professor at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, serving as deputy dean from 2012 to 2013. She has served as deputy rector responsible for academic personal from 2000.

Awards

Serafińska received several awards, including at the 2004 Shure Montreux Jazz Competition young jazz vocalists of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Recordings

Nieobecni Melodies Ciepło, zimno Gadu Gadu