Artistic director

Marcin Cmiel, one of the founders of the Lira Singing Society, served as its second conductor from 1997 to 2008 and is now its Artistic Director.

He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Music, now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, where he studied conducting with Professor Ryszard Zimak and earned a Master of Arts in Music with a very good final grade. From an early age, he was involved with Warsaw choirs including the Lutnia Singing Society, Cantores Luvenes, the ATK Choir (now UKSW) and the University of Warsaw Choir.

He founded and conducted the Cantemus Warsaw Mixed Choir, with which he gave more than 100 concerts, including performances at the Grand Theatre and the Academy of Music. He is also a graduate of the Warsaw School of Management and the University of Physical Education in Warsaw.