A choirmaster, graduate of the Academy of Music in Krakow, Professor of Musical Arts. Since 1984, she has been running a choral conducting class.
In 1999–2019, she served as Vice Dean, Dean, Vice Rector for Student Affairs and Director of the Institute of Choral Conducting, Music Education and Rhythmics.
For nearly 30 years, she has prepared the Academic Choir for both vocal and instrumental and concert performances. Lidia Matynian has participated in seminars organised by the Bachakademie Stuttgart and led by Helmuth Rilling on works by, among others, J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart and K. Penderecki. With her students, she has repeatedly participated in the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Festival and in the Organ Music Days.
In 1993, she took over the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Boys’ Choir in Krakow. The ensemble performs in Poland and abroad (Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia). Its repertoire covers all significant vocal and instrumental works. The Choir premiered, among others, Krzysztof Penderecki’s Credo and Benedictus, Wojciech Widłak’s Psalms for Children Young and Old and the jazz cantata Love Has Explained Everything to Me by Joachim Mencel. As part of their cooperation with the Krakow Opera, the choristers performed in the operas Tosca, La bohème and Hänsel und Gretel.
The Choir has given concerts with numerous orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia and NOSPR, as well as with choral ensembles; it has also made archival recordings and has recorded film music, for example, for the film The Secret Garden by Zbigniew Preisner.
For her achievements, the artist has been awarded a Gold Cross of Merit, the Decoration of Honour Meritorious for Polish Culture and a Gloria Artis Silver Medal for Merit to Culture. In 2022, Prof. Lidia Matynian was granted the Order of the Smile – an international honour awarded for activities that bring children joy.