Men’s Choir “Copernicus”

The Copernicus Men’s Choir is a multi-generational amateur singing group with a tradition of nearly forty years. It is made up of true enthusiasts who feel perfectly at home in both more formal and ceremonial repertoire, as well as entertainment. Above all, the choristers enjoy military and patriotic songs, as well as sacred works from various eras. The repertoire also includes contemporary songs, excerpts from operas, operettas and musicals.

The choir’s repertoire includes thematic and occasional concerts, such as those related to the 100th anniversary of Poland’s independence, carol concerts and carnival concerts. The ensemble successfully performs in Torun and other cities in the region, Poland and abroad. Currently, the ensemble has more than 30 singers.

For whom.
Meetings open to all interested men.

Conductor:
Paweł Jankowski – conductor of the Copernicus Choir for 20 years, graduate of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz

Price:
20 PLN/month

The condition for admission to classes is payment for each month in advance.
We recommend paying online, through your own account set up in the class system https://woak.bilety24.pl/lista-warsztatow/
Those participating in the previous 2023/2024 class season who are account users do not need to create an account again.
For those without email, it is possible to create an account and purchase a ticket at the box office.
It is possible to purchase a ticket at the box office one hour before the first meeting of the month.

Registration:
Log in or register in our system**:** https://woak.bilety24.pl/lista-warsztatow/

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Brief instructions on how to sign up:

• Create an account. You can do this in two ways:
  

(a) by clicking the “register” button in the upper right corner. You will then receive an email asking you to confirm your registration. Once you’ve done that, click “log in” in the upper right corner and enter the login (your email) and password you set.
b) logging in via Facebook or Google account – click “sign in” in the upper right corner, and then select the option for quick login by clicking on the Facebook or Google icon

• After logging in, create a profile of the person attending the class. Click on “Your account” in the upper right corner. Then select the “workshops” tab and click the orange “add participant” button. Fill in the first name, last name and year of birth of the person who attends the class (enter your information or your child’s, if he or she is the one attending the workshop).
• From the top menu, select the option “WORKSHOPS”. – you will see a list of all permanent classes. Select the classes you want to sign up for. Going to the sub-page you will see their description, date, instructor and schedule of all classes for this season.
• If the class you are signing up for has a group breakdown, click on the box under “Details and Groups” and select the group you are interested in (if the class has one group, skip this step).
• Click on the orange “REGISTER” button, and then on the “select variant” button. Select the type of ticket (some classes, but not all, have different ticket variants) and click “SAVE”.
• Click on the “proceed to payment” button. You will hit the shopping cart, where you will see the tickets you have selected. If you don’t want to buy anything else, click “NEXT.” You will be asked to enter your payment details – name, surname, phone number and payment type. The site will then redirect you to the payment page.
  

For the new 2024/2025 season, participants of previous seasons do not have to create an account from scratch. Instead, they must re-enroll on the selected site using the “Enroll or Login to Class” button. Then by clicking on the red “Enroll” button and following the same steps as described above (points 3-6).

The Copernicus Male Choir was formed in September 1987. Its organizer and first conductor was Roman Grucza. In the spring of 1988, the ensemble embarked on its first trip abroad: to West Germany and the Netherlands. Since then the Copernicus Male Choir has been giving concerts in Torun and other cities of the region, all over Poland, as well as abroad: in Austria, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Lithuania, Italy. The ensemble has won a number of major awards at national and international competitions and festivals.

In May 1990, Roman Grucza resigned from leading the choir. Subsequent conductors were Zbigniew Maryks, Jan Lach and Janusz Heyka. In May 1995 Renata Szerafin-Wójtowicz took over the artistic direction, and since September 2003 Paweł Jankowski has been conducting the choir.

Since June 2006, the Copernicus Male Choir has been an amateur artistic group of the Provincial Cultural Animation Center in Toruń.

The Copernicus Male Choir has been an artistic ensemble of the Provincial Center for Cultural Animation since 2006. Conductor of the Choir is Paweł Jan Jankowski, president – of the Choir is Jerzy Przeczewski.

For more information: weronika.droszcz@woak.pl