PhD Jacek Jaskuła

He graduated with honors from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. He was a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and Art, a laureate of the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe award, and a winner of vocal competitions: 1st prize – Bratislava, 2nd prize – Duszniki Zdrój, and the Polish Artistic Song Competition – Warsaw. He holds a doctorate in musical arts.

He has performed with the Opole, Sudecka, Jelenia Góra, Kalisz, Wrocław and Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as with the Toruń and Silesian Chamber Orchestras, the Bytom Chamber Orchestra Camerata Impuls, Capella Cracoviensis and Al Ayre espanol. With the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, he performed the oratorios Messiah (Handel) and Christus (Liszt). With the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie, he sang in Trostgedicht nach Martin Opitz, Paderewski Symphony Orchestra.

He has also given vocal recitals at the Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, Brawo Maestro – Paderewski Center, Millenium Music Foundation – Calgary, a recital of Chopin songs in Majorca and Ibiza, and a series of concerts in Australia at festivals in Wiltz (Luxembourg), Regensburg, Xanten (Germany).

He is a soloist at the Wrocław Opera, where he made his debut as the Count in W. A. Mozart's “The Marriage of Figaro”. With the Wrocław Opera, he has toured extensively in France, Italy, Germany, and Great Britain. He has also participated in performances of “The Magic Flute” – Papageno; “Cosi fan tutte” – Guglielmo; “The Barber of Seville” – Figaro; “La Bohème” – Marcello, “The Haunted Manor” – Maciej; ‘Halka’ – Janusz; “Carmina Burana” – Poet; “Die Fledermaus” – Falke; “Esther” – Ahasuerus, “The Free Shooter” – Kilian, ‘Carmen’ – Escamillo, “The Elixir of Love” – Belcore, “Angels in America” – Joseph Pitt, “The Peasant's Chivalry” – Alfio, “Lucia di Lammermoor” – Lord Ashton, “Madame Butterfly” – Scharpless, “Eugene Onegin” – Onegin, ‘Fidelio’ – Pizzaro, “Das Liebesverbot” – Friedrich, “Orpheus and Eurydice” – Orpheus.

He has performed under the baton of such conductors as Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Ewa Michnik, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Tomasz Szreder, Tadeusz Zathey, Andrzej Straszyński, Peter Fanger, Edwardo Lopez Banzo, Alan Urbanek, Friedemann Bohme, Janusz Powolny, Christof Escher, Herbert Manfred Hoffmann, Ruben Silva, Józef Wiłkomirski, Andrzej Kosendiak, Marek Tracz, Marek Pijarowski, Jerzy Salwarowski, Czesław Grabowski, Jan W. Hawel, Małgorzata Kaniowska, Iwona Sowińska, Łukasz Borowicz, Tadeusz Strugała, Will Crutchifield, Francesco Botigliero, Jose Maria Florencio, Andreas Spering, Kaspar Zehnder, Marzena Diakun, Basem Akiki, Tomasz Tokarczyk, Sławomir Chrzanowski.

He collaborated with Neues Musiktheater in Weimar, performing the role of Figaro in G. Rossini's opera “The Barber of Seville”, and at the Opera in Bilbao (Spain) as Guglielmo (“Cosi fan tutte”). He has performed at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, the Silesian Opera in Bytom, and the Krakow Opera.

He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Poland and the Merito de Wratislavia – Distinguished Service to Wrocław medal by the Mayor of Wrocław.