Zapiór, Hubert

Born in 1993 in Brzesko, baritone. He is currently a student of Włodzimierz Zalewski at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw and at the Acting Department of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. His awards include the 1st Prize at the Franciszka Platówna National Vocal Competition in Wrocław (2012), 1st Prize at the Golden Voices Competition in Warsaw (2013), 2nd Prize and Special Award for most promising talent at the Giulio Perotti Competition in Ueckermünde (2013), and 3rd Prize and London Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Leyla Gencer Competition in Istanbul (2015).

He made his opera debut at the age of 19 in the title role in JeanJacques Rousseau’s opera Le Devin du village at the Rheinsberg Musikakademie. In 2013 he appeared at the Warsaw Chamber Opera in Donizetti’s L’elisir d‘amore, and in 2014 as Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Kielce Philharmonic and Warsaw Chamber Opera. Also in 2014 he sang in the Polish premiere of Handel’s Agrippina in the Stanisławowski Theatre in Warsaw’s Łazienki Royal Park. From 2014 he performed at the Warsaw Chamber Opera as a participant of the Young Singers Project (including in Gianni Schicchi and La serva padrona). In July 2015 he returned to the stage as Count Almaviva in a student production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and in February 2016 he inaugurated his regular work at the Warsaw Chamber Opera as Prosdocimo in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia.

Hubert Zapiór has received a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding artistic achievements.