Jan Petryka

Jan Petryka (* in Warsaw ) is a Polish- Austrian opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

The son of a family of musicians came to Austria at the age of five and received his first cello lessons at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz with Andreas Pözlberger at the age of nine . He completed his Matura at the Linz Musikgymnasium , after which he completed his studies in cello concert at the Art University Graz . He took his first singing lessons with Gertrud Schulz in Linz, then moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he completed solo singing with Rotraud Hansmann, as well as song and oratorio with chamber singer Marjana Lipovšek with distinction. He was tutored by Didier von Orlowsky and Uwe Theimer in musical dramatic performance .

Petryka has won numerous prizes, both as a solo cellist and as a chamber musician. As a lyrical tenor he has developed a broad repertoire and sang together with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir , the Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna , the Chorus sine nomine , the Bruckner Orchester Linz and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO), the Neue Oper Vienna and at the Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz . In 2013 he made his debut at the Opéra National de Lyon as Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute .

In the field of sacred music, his solo appearances range from Franco-Flemish vocal polyphony , Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas , the oratorios and masses of the Viennese classics to contemporary compositions. Jan Petryka has appeared at several major festivals, including Aix-en-Provence , the Styriarte and the Richard Wagner Festival Wels . CD recordings were made as Aret in Haydn's Philemon and Baucis or in the title role Adrast in Franz Schubert's opera fragment with the "Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra". Petryka sang the tenor arias in the St. Matthew Passion at the Vienna Festival Osterklang 2013 . He completed a concert tour with the Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski . In 2014 he made a guest appearance at the Theater an der Wien - as part of the Lazarus dramatization by Claus Guth - with the tenor solo in Schubert's Nachthelle (D892).

Web links

• Jan Petryka agency profile
• Jan Petryka at Operabase (engagements and dates)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scenic version . Jan Petryka, "Nachthelle" by Franz Schubert , with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano).