Photo: Dominka Rusiecka
Tomasz Piluchowski
Tenor
Laureate of the Polish Music Prize Fryderyk in 2024 (category: Best Album, Choral Music-Oresteja composed by Agata Zubel).
Graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.
Awarded in the Internationales Gesangswettbewerb in Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and in the 12 th Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition.
Tomasz Piluchowski’s repertoire includes parts from the operas of Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Moniuszko, Mozart, Penderecki, Puccini, Smetana and Verdi, as well as operettas and musicals by J. Strauss (Son), Lehar, Bernstein and Bock/Stein. He also performs a rich oratorio repertoire, vocal (Lied) and chamber music.
He has collaborated with such conductors as Jacek Kaspszyk, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Łukasz Borowicz, Andriy Yurkevych, Miguel Gomez-Martinez, Carlo Montanaro, Marek Moś, Tomasz Tokarczyk, and Jakub Chrenowicz. He has appeared with Sinfonia Varsovia and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra and collaborated with directors: Keith Warner, Maja Kleczewska, Maciej Prus, Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Mariusz Treliński, Jerzy Gruza, Igor Gorzkowski and Jitka Stokalska. He has performed during festivals in Poland and has appeared at the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio in Warsaw, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice in addition to performances abroad in Hungary, Estonia, Germany, Austria, Ukraine and Belarus.
Since 2009, he has been associated with the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, where he has sung in Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky, La traviata, by Verdi, Madame Butterfly by Puccini, The Devils of Loudun by Penderecki, The Haunted Manor by Moniuszko Onegin by Tchaikovsky.
An appreciated performer of contemporary music, took part in World Premieres of contemporary operas such as Sudden Rain by Aleksander Nowak, Oresteja by Agata Zubel and Victory over the Sun by Sławomir Wojciechowski.
Tomasz Piluchowski has also collaborated with the Grand Theatre in Poznań (inter alia the title role in Dzień Świra by Hadrian Filip Tabęcki, based on the film of Marek Koterski), the Grand Theatre in Łódz ( Harold Mitchell in the Polish premiere of the opera A Streetcar named Desire by Andre Previn, based on the drama by Tennessee Williams), the Warsaw Chamber Opera ( title parts in Bastien und Bastienne and Der Schauspieldirektor by Mozart), as well as with the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok (Die Zauberflote by Mozart and Der Fledermaus by J. Strauss (Son)).
Additionally, the artist has taken part in recordings for Polish Radio and Television.
Member of the Polish Voice Teachers Association.
