Born in Cieszyn, the Polish baritone is one of the most promising artists of his generation.
The 2024/25 season began with a concert performance and CD recording of Stanisław Moniuszko's opera The Haunted Manor as part of the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw followed by the debuts as Raphael and Adam in Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Szczecin and the role debut at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw as Capulet in Gounod's Romeo und Julia. At his home opera house, the Stuttgart State Opera, he made his debut in three important roles this season: as Amfortas in Wagner's Parsifal, Traveller in Britten's Death in Venice and Jochanaan in Strauss' Salome. The rarely performed Requiem in D minor by Franz von Suppé at the «Festival Europäische Kirchenmusik Schwäbisch Gmünd» will conclude a season full of debuts.
Recent seasons have been filled with productions and concerts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Baltic Opera in Gdansk, the Opera in Wrocław and the Silesian Opera in Bytom, among others.
Paweł Konik's broad repertoire includes the title roles in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, Orest in Elektra, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, Einäugige in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Donner in Das Rheingold and Shchelkalov in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.
Numerous concert appearances have taken the artist to the Verbier Festival, the Brighton Festival, the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Capella Cracoviensis, among others.
Paweł Konik regularly works with conductors such as Bassem Akiki, Rune Bergmann, Charles Dutoit, Killian Ferrell, Thomas Guggeis, Giuseppe Grazioli, Vlad Iftinca, Marek Janowski, Michał Klauza, Alexander Liebreich, Cornelius Meister, Fabio Biondi, Przemysław Neumann and Marc Piollet as well as directors such as Pierre Audi, Andrzej Chyra, Paul-Georg Dittrich, Ted Huffman, Stephan Kimmig, Andrea Moses, Louisa Proske, Felix Rothenhäusler, Anika Rutkofsky, Marek Weiss and Michał Znaniecki.
He studied at the Yale University School of Music with Doris Yarick-Cross and Richard Cross and was awarded the prestigious Horatio Parker Memorial Prize by the same institute. At the Opera Academy of Polish National Opera, he worked with Eytan Pessen, Matthias Rexroth and Izabela Kłosińska. He was a scholarship holder of the Mayor of Cieszyn and the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation. During his studies at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, he was awarded the Jan Kiepura Music Prize in the category Best Singing Debut for his debut at the Baltic Opera in Gdansk as Shvokhnyev in Shostakovich's/Meyer's The Gamblers.
(photo: Magdalena Michalak)
