Maciej Kwaśnikowski

Maciej Kwaśnikowski is a former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He was also a member of the Academies of the Paris Opéra and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and participated in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project. He has worked with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Leopold Hager, Adrian Kelly and Enrique Mazzola, and participated in masterclasses with Alberto Zedda, Philippe Jordan, Brenda Hurley and Malcolm Martineau among others.
In the 2022/23 season he appeared at the Paris Opéra in productions of Salome under Simone Young, Tristan und Isolde under Gustavo Dudamel, Hamlet under Thomas Hengelbrock and Roméo et Juliette under Carlo Rizzi. In summer 2022 he sang in Schubert’s Mass in E flat major under Franz Welser-Möst at the Salzburg Festival.
Maciej Kwaśnikowski was born in Poznań. In 2015 he was accepted into the opera academy of the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. Alongside his musical studies he graduated in 2017 with a degree in technical physics from the Poznań University of Technology. In the same year he sang Florville in Rossini’s Il signor Bruschino with the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France under the baton of Enrique Mazzola.
Other engagements have included Schubert’s Mass in E flat major with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti, excerpts from Schubert’s Mass in A flat major at the Festival Vocal Art Frankfurt RheinMain, Mozart’s ‘Coronation’ Mass with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Leopold Hager in Oviedo and Valencia and Handel’s Messiah with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León in Valladolid and with the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa.
Maciej Kwaśnikowski has won numerous prizes, including the first prize at the Concours International de Chant de Marseille in 2017, first prize at the Alida Vane Awards in Ventspils (Latvia) in 2018, the Prix lyrique du Cercle Carpeaux in 2018 and the Prix lyrique de l’Arop in 2019.