Jakub Borgiel, tenor

Scholarship holder since 2024

Jakub Borgiel, born in 1999 in Katowice, Poland, received guitar and vocal lessons during his school years at the Karol Szymanowski Secondary School of Music. In 2017, he began his studies in solo singing at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he completed his master’s degree in opera singing in 2024. Since the 2024/25 academic year, he has been studying with Professor Hanno Müller-Brachmann at the University of Music in Karlsruhe.

Jakub is a prizewinner of various national competitions in Poland and was awarded second prize at the International Imrich Godin Vocal Competition in Vráble, Slovakia. His repertoire includes operatic arias by Mozart (Figaro, Don Giovanni, Leporello), Handel (Polyphemus), and Rachmaninoff (Aleko), as well as oratorio parts in Handel’s Samson, Mendelssohn’s The First Walpurgis Night, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and Fauré’s Requiem. Additionally, he is especially dedicated to the art song repertoire of Polish composers such as Mieczysław Karłowicz and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.