Jakub Józef Orlinski

Biography

Jakub Józef Orliński (born December 8, 1990 in Warsaw) is a Polish countertenor. He has received critical and popular acclaim, prompting the New York Times to write: "Orliński has combined beauty of tone with an uncommon unity of color and polish throughout his range."

Fall 2018 sees the highly anticipated release of his debut album, Anima Sacra, a recital of rediscovered 18th-century sacred arias with the Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d'oro, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, with Erato/Warner Classics.

He has won major competitions on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council in 2016 and the Marcella Sembrich International Vocal Competition in 2015. In the summer of 2017, he was thrust onto the international stage when his moving live performance of Vivaldi’s “Vedrò con mio diletto” on France Musique was quickly seen by over two million people.

He made his debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and at the Montreal Bach Festival in a programme of arias by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. On the opera stage, Jakub Józef Orliński will make his debut with Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Eustazio in Handel’s Rinaldo. He then made his debut at the Frankfurt Opera in the title role of Handel’s Rinaldo, and made his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Orimeno in Cavalli’s Erismena, which was subsequently performed on tour at the Château de Versailles and the Festival de Saint-Denis. He toured Handel’s Rinaldo with The English Concert under Harry Bicket, made his Chicago debut in Music of the Baroque in a programme of Vivaldi excerpts conducted by Jane Glover, and joined the Capella Cracoviensis for performances of Handel’s Samson.

Jakub Józef Orliński has been heard at Carnegie Hall in Handel’s Messiah with Musica Sacra and the Oratorio Society of New York, a work he also performed in his debuts with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. He participated in the Karlsruhe Handel Festival for Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus and excerpts from Handel's Dixit Dominus. While still a student at the Juilliard School in New York, he performed the roles of the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight and Ottone in Handel's Agrippina in conjunction with the Festival La Serenissima: Music and Arts of the Republic of Venice organized by Carnegie Hall.

Jakub Józef Orliński has triumphed in numerous international competitions, winning First Prize at the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition of the Oratorio Society of New York in 2016, Second Prize at the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Singing Competition, the First and Second International Early Vocal Music Competitions in Poland, where he received a Special Mention and the Special Prize, First Prize at the Rudolf Petrák Singing Competition in Slovakia, Third Place at the Debut Singing Competition in Igersheim (Germany), a Special Mention at the eighth annual Mazovian Golden Voices Competition in Poland, and Third Place at the Grand Prix of the Bucharest Opera (Romania).

While earning his diploma in vocal performance with Anna Radziejwska at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, he participated in the prestigious Opera Academy Young Artists Program at the Teatr Wielki-Opera Narodowa, where he studied with Eytan Pessen and Matthias Rexroth. He graduated from the Juilliard School, having studied with Edith Wiens.

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