Jerzy Butryn is a graduate of the Wrocław Academy of Music, where he studied voice under Professor Bogdan Makal. He also trained with Professor Lars Woldt at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold thanks to an Erasmus grant. He took vocal masterclasses in Duszniki Zdrój, a course of cantatas and oratorios interpretation held as part of Wratislavia Cantans, as well as masterclasses led by Teresa Żylis-Gara, Eytan Pessen, Andrzej Dobber, Anita Garancia, Valery Buymister, Sabina Martinaityte, and Zdzisław Krzywicki. He is an alumnus of the Opera Academy Young Talent Development Programme of the Polish National Opera. He won first prize in the Franciszka Platówna Competition in Wrocław and was a finalist of the Andrzej Hiolski Singing Competition in Kudowa Zdrój.
He has performed at Theater Kiel, Teatro Stignani, Salle Pleyel, Royal Albert Hall in London (BBC Proms), Polish National Opera, as well as opera house and concert halls in Wrocław, Katowice, Łódź, Kraków, Jelenia Góra, Rzeszów, Poznań, Częstochowa, and Kalisz. He could also be heard at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festiwal in Kiel, Ohrid Summer Festival, Wratislavia Cantans, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Opera Rara in Kraków, Music in Old Kraków, Music in Old Lviv, Leo Festival in Wrocław, and Moniuszko Festival in Kudowa-Zdrój.
He has collaborated with: Paul McCreesh, Giancarlo Guerrero, Łukasz Borowicz, Amos Talmon, Ruben Silva, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Benjamin Bayl, Stanisław Gałoński, Jerzy Salwarowski, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, J.T. Adamus, Włodzimierz Szymański, Przemysław Stanisławski, Roberto Skolmowski, and Ernst Kovacic.
Mr Butryn is an original member of Collegium Zieleński and is featured on the chamber choir's album of Mikołaj Zieleński's Offertoria and Communiones (Opera Omnia), awarded the Orphées d'Or by the Academie du Disque Lyrique and the Fryderyk Award for Early Music. He collaborates with such early music ensembles as Capella Cracoviensis, Capella Viridimontana, Wrocław Baroque Ensemble (Fryderyk 2018), as well as the Choir of the National Forum of Music, with which he has toured and recorded extensively, including Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts, Mendelssohn-Bartholdi’s Elijah (Diapason d’Or de l’Année), Britten's War Requiem (BBC Music Magazine Award). Since 2018 the bass-baritone has been a member and artistic director of the a cappella ensemble Wrocław Male Vocal Octet. He performs extensively in concert at home and abroad, singing oratorios, opera, songs and Orthodox church music.
Mr Butryn is a recipient of a Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship and a Mayor of Wrocław grant. He currently lectures at his alma mater.
