Robert Gierlach
One of the most outstanding Polish opera singers, as well as a valued interpreter of contemporary music and songs. Graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music) in the class of Kazimierz Pustelak. Winner of the Concorso Internazionale di Musica Viotti in Vercelia, winner of the Audience Prize at the Concurso Internacional de Canto Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
He has performed in some of the world’s most important opera theatres and concert halls, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall in New York, Musikverein in Vienna, Berliner Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall in London, Théâtre des Champs‑Elysées in Paris, NHK Hall in Tokyo, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Grand Théâtre de Geneve, Tonhalle Zurich. He is a frequent guest at such opera festivals as the Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Schleswig-Holstein, BBC Proms and Wratislavia Cantans. The artist regularly appears on the stages of Polish philharmonic and opera theatres (Warsaw Philharmonic, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, Polish Royal Opera in Warsaw, among others).
Robert Gierlach received the Andrzej Hiolski Award for the title role in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera (directed by Mariusz Treliński). The artist is a two-time winner of the Fryderyk Award for his recordings of songs by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Paweł Łukaszewski. A CD of Feliks Nowowiejski’s Quo vadis recorded with the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Łukasz Borowicz, with Robert Gierlach in the role of St Peter, won the ICMA Award. The artist teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
[2024]