Soprano

She graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice where she attended the class of prof. J. Ballarina as well as the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna where she was taught by prof. H. Łazarska. She is a laureate of prestigious international singing competitions as well as a scholarship holder of Austrian Government, Swiss Thyll-Dur Foundation as well as Polish Government. 

She made her début in 1999 as Lady Billows on the boards of Viennese Studiobuhne in B. Britten’s Albert Herring. Since 2004 she has been co-working with Krakow Opera, where she sang the parts of Halka, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Marguerite in Faust, Mimi in La Bohème, Liza in The Queen of Spades, Cio- Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and Ariadna in Ariadne auf Naxos. During the opening of the new house for the Krakow Opera, she acted the role of Jeanne in The Devils of Loudun. Biegas has appeared in Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera as well as in the opera houses in Gdańsk, Bytom, Łódź and Bydgoszcz.

In 2009, she acted the part of Miss Wingrave in Britten’s Owen Wingrave in Viennese Kammeroper. She took part in the world premiere of Missa Pro Pace by Kilar in New York and in Opera Gala in Musikvereins Golden Saal in Vienna celebrating the accession of Poland to the European Union. She performed the Symphony no. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, by H. M. Górecki during Schlezwig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Symphony no. 8 by Penderecki, under the baton of the composer himself, in Teatro del Maggio in Florence.

In the season of 2011/2012 she made her debut in the Opera in Montreal performing the part of the Princess in Rusalka conducted by J. Keenan. She also débuted in the Teatro Colon singing the title part in Szymanowski’s Hagith conducted by B. Bronnimann and directed by M. Znaniecki. In Buenos Aires, Ewa Biegas took part in the musical project called Dos Conocidos directed by M. Znaniecki where she sang Szymanowski’s Hymns and Perkowski’s Niebo w Ogniu [Eng. Sky in Flames].

Biegas has a rich singing repertoire. She performs together with her husband, a pianist Grzegorz Biegas.

For the Polish Radio, she has recorded the parts of: Donna Maria in Dobrzyński’s Monbar, Bogna in Nowowiejski’s Legend of the Baltic, Sara in Szymanowski’s Lottery for Husbands, E. Bogusławski’s Canzoni d’Amore as well as Lutosławski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables and 20 Carols.

She has been a university lecturer in the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice since 2005.