Jacek Ozimkowski

He is a graduate of Krakow’s Władysław Żelenski National Music School, Grade 2, Organ Class of Professor Andrzej Białko. In 1995, he graduated with honours from Vocal Studies under Professor Wojciech Jan Śmietana at the Academy of Music in Kraków. After graduation he started to teach in his class.
In 1995, he won the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship Competition and was awarded a diploma of the Minister of Culture and Arts for outstanding artistic achievement. He was an assistant of Professor Ryszard Karczykowski, a renowned Polish tenor and a teacher of solo singing.
In May 2003, he earned a PhD in Vocal Studies and in 2013, he became a Doctor of Letters. In September 2004, he won a competition for the position of an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Music in Krakow. Currently, he teaches his own solo singing class at the Voice and Drama Faculty at the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he holds the position of a Deputy Dean. Since 1996 he has also been employed at the Władysław Żeleński National Music School, Grade 2, as a teacher of solo singing.
He gives concerts in Poland and abroad, including Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, USA, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Turkey and China. He has done a number of recordings for the Polish Radio and TV.
Jacek Ozimkowski’s repertoire includes parts from the operas by Mozart, Weber, Verdi, Moniuszko, Czajkowski and many other famous composers as well as parts from oratorios, cantatas and vocal lyrics.  
He collaborates with many institutions of culture, such as Capella Cracoviensis, the Krakow Opera or the Gliwice Musical Theatre. In 1998 he began collaboration with the Art Media Agency from Switzerland, with which he toured Europe with Mozart’s operas performing the parts of Sarastro, Leporello, Osmin or Figaro. In 1999 he took part in the Grand Mozart Gala in Karlsruhe in Germany.
In 2003, at the invitation of the Krakow Opera, he performed the aria of Mephistopheles – Gounod and the aria of Scarpia from Puccini’s Tosca during the Great Opera Gala.
At the Krakow Opera he participated in the premiere of The Rape of Lucretia (B.Britten), The Queen of Spades (P. Tchaikovsky), The Love for Three Oranges (S. Prokofiev), La boh?me (G. Puccini) and King Roger (K. Szymanowski). At the Gliwice Musical Theatre he performed the part of Don Basilio in the premiere of The Barber of Seville (G. Rossini). He also sang in Rigoletto and Traviata by G. Verdi. In 2002 he participated in the birthday concert of Wojciech Kilar in Kraków performing his monumental piece Missa Pro Pace, which premiered in Krakow.
He took part in Baroque music festivals, such as the Świdnica Bach Festival, the Music in Old Cracow Festival, Forum Musicum in Wrocław, a festival in Nysa, the Music Festival in Mielec and in Łańcut.
In 2011 he began recording a CD series entitled Polish Baroque. It is a set of 5 CDs that were presented at the trade show Midem 2012 in Cannes. So far, the total of 27 albums with old music performed by Jacek Ozimkowski have been released.
In 2009 he received  the Fryderyk Award  in the category of Best Album for Musica Sacromonatana.