Lukas Jakobski

Lukas Jakobski  sang  with us on Saturday 20th March 2010 in our performance of Bach’s masterpiece, St John Passion, with period instruments.

 

Born in Koszalin, Poland, Lukas Jakobski has recently joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this his first season he will sing Flemish Deputy in Verdi’s Don Carlo, the Aged Gambler in Prokofiev’s The Gambler and Pietro in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra.

 

Lukas began his musical training as a bassoonist before studying singing at the Academy of Music in Poznań. During this time he performed various roles, culminating in a critically acclaimed performance as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

 

In 2004 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music with Graeme Broadbent. During this time he was awarded the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary and the Concordia Serena Nevill Award. Lukas Jakobski recently sang the Armed Man/Priest in The Magic Flute and Zuniga in Carmen for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Other opera appearances have included Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, The Barber of Seville for Grange Park Opera, The Magic Flute with Dartington Opera Festival and Orfeo with the English Bach Festival. Concerts have included Bach’s St John Passion with Stephen Layton and Polyphony, Acis and Galatea at the London Handel Festival, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Dunedin Consort. He has also sung Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, and Handel’s The Resurrection and Messiah.