Tenor
Jacek Wislocki
Biography
Jacek is a freelance artist, an experienced choral and solo performer renowned for his distinguished oratorio roles. His repertoire spans music from the Middle Ages to the present day. He began his musical career at the age of fifteen as a member of a male voice choir in his native city, Wrocław, in Poland. He has performed at hundreds of festivals in his native Poland, Ireland and across three continents, and appears in numerous CDs and radio recordings. Jacek is a much sought-after soloist with many major Irish and international choral societies and orchestral ensembles and has performed Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio and many of his cantatas, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Verdi’s Requiem, Britten’s St Nicolas, Leighton’s Crucifixus pro nobis and Couperin’s Te Deum. His opera roles include Momo in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo under Erin Headley at Galway International Arts Festival 2014. He has presented concerts of Polish baroque music in Dublin and has formed his own group Chant21, dedicated to performing pearls of European 17th-century music with leading singers and players. His future engagements include early baroque duets with lute in Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery in June 2022.
October 2021