Vita

I was born in Sumer 1977 in Łódź/Poland as a daughter of an opera singer.

My first performance on stage took place when I was 5 years old. I was playing a little son of Madame Butterfly in the opera “Madame Butterfly“ at the state theatre of Łódź.

Since then I was always fascinated by live performances of Art, Theatre and Music and the need to become an artist myself begun to grow. At the beginning of the 90’s I moved together with my family to Germany and a new chapter in my life has begun.

The stage was always a place where I felt at home. That’s why during my new life in Germany I was participating in some youth projects such as “Cats” (KUFA in Koblenz) or a dance performance “Zielspringer” in Konradhaus in Koblenz, but also family performances for the German-Polish society in Düsseldorf, together with my brother Przemek Rogala, who is a classical piano player and my mother, Zofia Rogala, who is an opera singer and singing teacher.

The years in The Royal Conservatory were a great opportunity to play a lot of jazz and different concerts in a multicultural environment. I’m very thankful for this chance I could grab. Making music means a lot to me, it gives me freedom, it keeps me going on and it has a big influence on my creativity and my whole life.

Life performances of my music are the best chance to reach people’s hearts and present myself in an honest, true, spontaneous and creative way. My musical interests reach from standart jazz, bossa nova, modern jazz, latin jazz to fusion jazz. But also the experimental jazz is something I like to explore. My own compositions are presented not only in the English language, but also in Polish.

I’m performing with my own Gosia Rogala Quartett and working on some other projects.

4 of my compositions have been published in The German Book Vol.I. More information about this book: www.sena-music.de, or www.nil.ike-u.de.

Musical Education

1986 - 1989  primary music school in Lodz
1998 - 1999 Rheinische Musikschule in Köln
preparatory piano lessons by Margit Matyas and siniging lessons by Manfred Billmann
1999 - 2000 guest student at the Musikhochschule in Köln
student of the Jazz-Haus-Schule in Köln with Andrè Nendza
2000 - 2005 Royal Conservatory of Den Haag
Music studies with main subject Jazz singing and pedagogy
Graduation: Bachelor of music arts
Teachers:
Ineke Heijliger, Rachel Gould, Anette von Eichel, Guuske Kotte, Sanna van Vliet, Peter Niewerf, Edie Maron, Stefaan Debevere, Erik Gieben und John Ruocco.
Workshops by:
Deborah Brown, Marc Murphy, Meredith Ambrozio, Bary Harris, Judy Niemack and Dianne Reeves.
2006 – 2009 further singing lessons by Silvia Droste