Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny is one of the most influential choral conductors in Poland and Europe, a professor of musical arts, teacher (AMKL and UMFC), singer, and arts manager. She has conducted over 20 albums and won more than 70 individual and collective awards, including the Honorary Badge of Merit for Polish Culture (2008), the “Iuvenes Wratislaviae” Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2012), the Bronze Medal for Merit for Polish Culture – Gloria Artis (2014), and the prestigious Fryderyk Award in 2017 and 2019. In 2018, she led the Choral Academy to achieve a nomination for the “Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej” Award.

In 2000 she founded the Medical University Chamber Choir (now Medici Cantantes Choir of Wrocław Medical University), winning several awards and distinctions at national and international competitions. Between 2006 and 2021 she was Artistic Director of the Choir of the National Forum of Music, and in 2013 became the founder and Artistic Director of the Polish National Youth Choir, a nationwide educational project. In January 2015, she became the programme director of the Choral Academy, a project of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. During 2013-2016 she curated the music programme of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, co-implementing an artistic programme consisting of several hundred music events.

With her choirs, she has performed over 1,200 choral pieces and almost 300 vocal-instrumental works. She has made many premieres of Polish music, conducting in 19 European countries, Israel, the USA, and Brazil. She continues to teach choral conducting and directs the Stanisław Krukowski Choir at the Department of Music Education, Choral Music, and Church Music of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. In 2022 she was appointed Managing Director of the Sudeten Philharmonic in Wałbrzych.