MA Jerzy Butryn

Graduate of the Vocal Department of the State Music School of the 2nd degree in Wrocław and the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in the singing class of Prof. Bogdan Makal, PhD (diploma with distinction). Erasmus scholarship holder at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in the singing class of Prof. Lars Woldt. Currently a lecturer at the Vocal Department of his alma mater.

Winner of the 1st prize at the Franciszka Platówna National Vocal Competition in Wrocław, 2nd prize at the International Vocal Competition in Kiev (Ukraine), 2nd prize at the Karol Kurpiński National Competition in Włoszakowice, third prize and a special prize at the International Vocal Competition in Kaunas (Lithuania), the Culture Department Award at the Academic Competition for the Interpretation of Songs by Fryderyk Chopin and Robert Schumann in Wrocław, and was a finalist in the 1st Andrzej Hiolski International Vocal Competition in Kudowa Zdrój. He participated in vocal courses in Duszniki Zdrój, a course in the interpretation of cantata and oratorio music as part of the Wratislavia Cantans International Festival, and a masterclass with Prof. Teresa Żylis-Gara, Eytan Pessen, Andrzej Dobber, Prof. Anita Garanca, Prof. Valery Buymistr, Prof. Sabina Martinaityte, and Prof. Zdzisław Krzywicki. He participated in the Young Talent Education Program – Opera Academy as part of the European Network of Opera Academies at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.

He has performed in the philharmonics of Kieler Schloss, Teatro Comunale di Imola lo Stignani, Salle Pleyel, NOSPR in Katowice, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Theatre St. Gallen, Teatro Regio in Parma, the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw, the Wrocław Opera, as well as in Łódź, Kraków, Poznań, Opole, Jelenia Góra, Rzeszów, Częstochowa and Kalisz. He has participated in the BBC Proms Festival (Royal Albert Hall) in London, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Kiel, the Ohrid Summer Festival, the International Festival “Wratislavia Cantans,” the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, the Opera Rara Festival in Krakow, Music in Old Krakow, Music in Old Lviv, the Leo Festival in Wrocław, and the Moniuszko Festival in Kudowa Zdrój.

He has collaborated with Paul McCreesh, Patrick Fournillier, Giancarlo Guerrero, Alejo Perez, Paul Goodwin, Łukasz Borowicz, Amos Talmon, Ruben Silva, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Benjamin Bayl, Stanisław Gałooski, Jerzy Salwarowski, Andrzej Kosendiak, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Jan Tomasz Adamus, Włodzimierz Szymański, Przemysław Stanisławski, Calixto Bieito, Roberto Skolmowski, Barbara Wysocka, and Ernst Kovacic. From the very beginning, he co-founded the Collegium Zieleński ensemble, with which he recorded Mikołaj Zieleński's Offertoria and Communiones (Opera Omnia), awarded the Golden Orpheus by the Académie du Disque Lyrique in France and the Fryderyk Award in the Early Music category. He also collaborates with the early music ensembles Capella Cracoviensis, Capella Viridimontana, Wrocław Baroque Ensemble (Fryderyk Award 2018) and the Puppet Theatre in Wrocław. With the National Forum of Music Choir, he has given numerous concerts in Poland and abroad, and has also participated in recordings of H. Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts, F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Elijah (Diapason d'Or de l'Année award), B. Britten's War Requiem (BBC Music Magazine Award in the choral music category) and, in 2017, the Fryderyk Award in the Classical Music category for an album of a cappella music. Since 2018, he has been a member and artistic director of the Wrocław Male Octet, with which he presents choral and ensemble a capella music in a male rendition.

He has given numerous concerts and performances in Poland and abroad, performing opera, oratorio, song, and Orthodox church music. He is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Mayor of Wrocław.