Hubert Kowalczyk has been studying voice under Professor Martin Bruns at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin since 2014. He is spending the academic year 2017/18 at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Pietro Mascagni, Livorno, working with Maestro Graziano Polidori. So far, as part of his studies, he has sung the following roles: Claudio in Handel's Agrippina, Antonio in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Zaretsky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. In January 2016 he made his debut at the Neuköllner Oper, Berlin as Ubalde and Artémidore in an adaption of Gluck's Armide. In the 2016/2017 season he joined Opera Academy – The Young Talents Development Programme of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, Warsaw, where he has been working under Eytan Pessen and Matthias Rexroth. In 2017 he made his debut on the Wielki's small stage, singing Świstos in Stefani's A Supposed Miracle, or Cracovians and Highlanders and Sarastro in About the Kingdom of Day and Night and Magic Instruments, an adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute. He has participated in master classes led by professors Rudolf Piernay, Jerzy Artysz and Bogdan Makal. On his song repertoire he has worked with professors Wolfram Rieger and Eric Schneider in Berlin. The role of Zuniga in the Wielki's production of Bizet's Carmen is Hubert Kowalczyk's professional debut on the Warsaw opera house's main stage.
(photo: OHNE – Natalia Michalec)
