Polish baritone Paweł Trojak began his vocal studies at the Tarnów Music School. In 2020, he graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw where he studied with Jadwiga Rappé. He is also a member of the Opera Academy of the Polish National Opera at the Teatr Wielki.
Paweł has won prizes at a number of international competitions, including the first prize and three special prizes at the 2019 International Antonina Campi Vocal Competition, a special prize at the 2019 International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition, the first prize and six special prizes at the 2018 Bell’Arte Competition, the first prize and a special prize at the 2017 Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský Competition, the second prize and five special prizes at the Ada Sari Competition, the first prize at the 2016 Iuventus Canti Competition and the first prize at the 2016 Rudolf Petráka Competition.
Paweł made his Polish National Opera debut in April 2017 as Jonek in Jan Stefani’s The Supposed Miracle, or Kracovians and Highlanders and in January 2018 he took over the leading roles of Bardos and Wawrzyniec in this same production. In June 2018 he returned to the Polish National Opera to sing Le Dancaïre in Carmen.
In July 2017, Paweł took part in a concert performance of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane under Fabrice Bollon at the Freiburg Theatre. The performance was also recorded and released on CD. In the summer of 2018, he was a participant in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival where he made his debut as the Second Nazarene in Salome. In June 2019 he sang Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at the Warsaw Chamber Opera.
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