Wojciech Gierlach
Bass.
He graduated from the Academy of Music of F. Chopin where he attended the class of Kazimierz Pustelak (Magna cum Laude distinction). He is the laureate of the main awards in the international singing competitions: Ada Sari (1st place in 1999), Bilbao (2nd place in 2000), Milan (Premio Caruso in 2001) and Francisco Viñasa in Barcelona (3rd place in 2004). He also won the award of Jan Kiepura in 2012.
His début took place in 1999 with the title role of G.F. Handel’s Imeneo in the Warsaw Chamber Opera. His repertoire encompass the title parts in Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro, the role of Mustafà in the Italian Girl in Algiers, Assur in Semiramide, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Don Basilio the Barber of Seville, Colline in La bohème, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Alfonso D’Este in Lucrezia Borgia, Count Rodolfo in the Sleepwalker, Escamillo in Carmen and Mephistopheles in the Damnation of Faust.
Among others, the artist has appeared in Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera, Deutsche Oper, Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos, Royal Danish Opera, Opera Ireland, Opéra National de Bordeaux, National Theatre in Bratislava, Teatro Maestranza de Sevilla, Nico Theater in Cape Town as well as in the opera theatres in Minneapolis, Ravenna, Piza, Santa Cruz, Klagenfurt and St. Gallen.
His oratorio and cantata repertoire encompasses: Bach’s Mass in B minor, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Verdi’s Requiem and Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem. He performed these pieces with numerous orchestras in Poland and abroad (such as Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Sinfonia Varsovia, I Solisti Veneti, Orquesta Nacional de Espana, Orquesta Simfonica de Asturia, Orquesta Simfonica de Navarra and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra).
He has participated in significant music festivals such as the Warsaw Autumn, Prague Spring, Festival d’Aix-en-Provance, Pesaro Rossini Festival, Mozart Festival in La Coruña, Belcanto Festival Wildbad, Lehar Festival Bad Ischl and L. van Beethoven Easter Festival. The recordings for the record labels such as: Naxos, Bongiovanni, Iberatour, Oehms Dux and LvB as well as for the Polish Radio constitute a part of his accomplishments.