05.11.2023


On November 17 we invite you to a free concert as part of the project , "With Classics through Poland". The program will include works by F. Schubert, F. Chopin, R. Schumann and S. Moniuszko.

November 17, 2023.

18:00 Baroque Hall

Robert Gierlach - bass-baritone
Robert Morawski - piano

ROBERT GIERLACH

One of the most outstanding Polish opera singers, also respected as an excellent interpreter of songs and contemporary music. Graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Music in Professor Kazimierz Pustelak's singing class. Soloist with the Warsaw Chamber Opera and the Grand Theater of the National Opera. He has toured abroad extensively with the ensembles of these theaters.

He has performed at prestigious opera houses in Europe, North America and Japan, and maintains a lively concert career. In the past several years, he has performed with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Opera du Montreal, Lyric Opera in Baltimore, Flanders Opera in Antwerp, New York City Opera, Tokyo-NHK, Opera Ottawa, Arizona Opera, Cleveland Opera and Opera Orlando, among others. He has also performed on the stage of the famous Carnegie Hall in New York.

He received First Prize at the Viotti International Vocal Competition in Vercelli, Italy, and the Audience Award at the Alfredo Kraus Competition in Las Palmas. He is a two-time winner of the Fryderyk Award: for a CD of songs by P. Lukaszewski and songs by H. M. Górecki; the International Classical Music Awards for Feliks Nowowiejski's "Quo vadis" (the part of St. Peter) and the A. Hiolski Award for the role of Don Giovanni in M. Treliński's staging at the Grand Theater in Warsaw.

For several years he has been a soloist with the Polish Royal Opera in Warsaw and teaches a solo singing class at the Faculty of Vocal and Acting at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.


ROBERT MORAWSKI

Polish pianist, chamber musician and pedagogue. A student of Bronislawa Kawalla and Jerzy Marchwinski. Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Currently head of the Department of Piano and String Chamber Music. He first performed at the National Philharmonic at the age of seven.

He gives concerts at home and abroad, performing with outstanding soloists and ensembles.

Winner of many prestigious awards. Winner of the 2000 and 2011 Fryderyk Awards, he has received awards for best pianist at vocal competitions in Poland. He won second prize at the Krzysztof Penderecki Chamber Music Competition in Cracow.

He teaches a piano chamber music class at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and his students have won numerous awards at Polish and foreign competitions. He conducts master classes at home and abroad. He was a long-time pianist at the Stanislaw Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw and head of the piano ensemble.

He has premiered works by contemporary composers. His repertoire includes works from early music to recent decades. He has made recordings for Polish Television, Polish Radio and for Hungarian Television, as well as for record labels such as Acte Prealable, Dux, WW open sources, CD Accord, Sarton, Chopin Uni-versity Press.