Professor Cezary Szyfman

- bari­tone, grad­u­ate of the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music, Depart­ment of Vocal and Act­ing Stud­ies, where he stud­ied under Pro­fes­sor Michał Szop­ski and Pro­fes­sor Kaz­imierz Puste­lak. After grad­u­at­ing he devel­oped his music and vocal skills under Pro­fes­sor Piotr Kusiewicz.

Since 1984 he has coop­er­ated with most Pol­ish cham­ber ensem­bles spe­cial­iz­ing in early music (Il Canto, Bor­nus Con­sort, Ars Nova, Il Tempo, Came­rata Cra­co­via, Con­certo Polacco), with which he did many radio and tele­vi­sion record­ings. Some of them have been released on over twenty CDs (so far).

Apart from the­atre per­for­mances the artist has par­tic­i­pated in all most impor­tant fes­ti­vals in Poland and numer­ous fes­ti­vals abroad, e.g.: Scot­tish Early Music Fes­ti­val, Hol­land Fes­ti­val, Schleswick-Holstein Musik Fes­ti­val. He has given con­certs in many coun­tries in Europe, Asia, Africa and in the United States of America.

Together with the vocal quin­tet ‘II Canto’ he won numer­ous prizes at inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tions: in Tam­pere (Fin­lan­d), in Arezzo and Gori­zia (Italy).

In the period of 1993–1995 he par­tic­i­pated in mas­ter vocal courses run by the famous British ensem­ble The King’s Singers, orga­nized in Germany.

He is also a co-winner of the ‘Fry­deryk 96’ prize – in the cat­e­gory ‘Early Music’ (Ars Nova — Il Canto — Psalms) — awarded by the Phono­graphic Acad­emy for the most out­stand­ing phono­graphic achieve­ments of the year.

Apart from music of the Mid­dle Ages, Renais­sance or Baroque an impor­tant part of his reper­toire are songs by the Roman­tics, Pol­ish and foreign.

Cezary Szyf­man has been active as a ped­a­gogue for many years as well. He is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw, Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Ped­a­gog­i­cal Stud­ies in Białys­tok, and adi­unkt with the sec­ond degree qual­i­fi­ca­tions at the A. Zel­werow­icz The­atre Acad­emy in War­saw, Depart­ment of the Pup­petry Art in Białys­tok. In the Aca­d­e­mic Year 2002/2003 he worked as the vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at Keimy­ung Uni­ver­sity — Fry­deryk Cho­pin Aca­demy of Music in Daegu (South Korea). More­over, he is con­stantly invited to run cre­ative work­shops, lec­tures and sem­i­nars devoted to early music and the widely under­stood work on one’s voice.