Biographies & programs
28.5.24
11:20
Jan Bukowski
Poland
Simonas Poška
Lithuania
Program
Franz Schubert
Der Musensohn D764 (Johann W. von Goethe) - 1R
Orpheus D 474 (Georg Jakobi)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mailied Op. 52 Nr. 4 (Johann W. von Goethe)
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op.25
1. Widmung (Friedrich Rückert)
Franz Liszt
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270
2. Benedetto sia 'l giorno
3. Vidi in terra angelici costumi - 1R
Stanisław Moniuszko
Tren VI "Ucieszna moja śpiewaczko!" (Jan Kochanowski)
Hugo Wolf
Goethe-Lieder
30. Ganymed
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
1. L ́invitation au voyage (Charles Baudelaire) - 1R
Gerald Finzi
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18 (William Shakespeare)
1. Come Away, Come Away - 1R
Media
Jan Bukowski
Baritone
Year of birth:
1993
Jan Bukowski was born in Warsaw (Poland) in 1993. He graduated from the Technical University in Warsaw and soon from the Hanover University of Music, Theater and Media, where he studied with Prof. Marek Rzepka. Scholarship holder of the Germany, Cusanuswerk, Live Music Now and Richard Wagner Association scholarships. He took part in master classes by such artists as Justus Zeyen, Thomas Hampson, Angela Denoke, Melanie Diener, Prof. Bogdan Makal and Stefan Vinke. He won numerous prizes in national and international competitions, including 1st place in the Iuventus Canti International Singing Competition in Vrable, Slovakia (2017) and the special prize in the First Bolko von Hochberg International Song Competition in Görlitz (2022). He sang in the Warsaw Chamber Opera, the Warsaw State Opera and the Hanover State Opera. In February 2022 he appeared as Count Almaviva in "Le nozze di Figaro" by Wolfgang A. Mozart at the HMTM Hannover and in February 2023 he appeared as Ford in "Falstaff" by G. Verdi.
Simonas Poška
Pianist
In 2023, Simonas Poška won second prize in the M. K. Čiurlionis Piano Competition - the largest piano competition in Lithuania - and was also awarded a special prize for the highest placement among all Lithuanians. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Lithuania, the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the M. K. Čiurlionis Art School, the Orchester symphonique de la Garde républicaine, the Orchester de chambre Nouvelle Europe, the Vytautas Magnus University Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of St. Christopher and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.
In 2018, Simonas Poška was awarded by the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė for proclaiming the name of Lithuania in the international competitions. In 2019, the Vilnius City Council awarded the young pianist the Little Saint Christopher Prize for achievements in 2018. From 2018 to 2020, the pianist has the support of the M. Rostropovich Foundation “Support for Lithuanian Children”. Simonas has been a scholarship holder of the “Live Music Now Hannover” foundation since 2022.
Simonas Poška was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2001. In 2008 he began studying at the M. K. Čiurlionis Art School under Eglė Jurkevičiūtė-Navickienė. Since autumn 2020 he has been studying piano at the Hanover University of Music, Theater and Media with Prof. Roland Krüger.