Michał Prószyński
Polish-born tenor Michał Prószyński initially studied classical guitar at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 2012 to 2017, alongside his first vocal training. From 2017 to 2021, he pursued vocal studies at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in the solo class of Marek Rzepka, who had previously mentored him at the Academy of Music in Krakow in 2016/17. Since 2023, he has been working with Giacomo Pati.
As a scholarship recipient of the Hans and Eugenia Jüttling Foundation, Prószyński won numerous awards: After second prizes at the Jan Kiepura Competition in Sosnowiec and at the "Golden Voices" International Singing Competition in 2015, he was awarded "The Most Promising Tenor" at the 3rd Alida Vane International Singing Competition in Latvia in 2017, won the Grand Prix at the 1st Singing Competition in Jelenia Góra, and first prize and a special prize from the Silesia Foundation at the 19th Imrich Godin Iuventus Canti International Competition in Vrable. In 2021, he was a finalist in the Robert Schumann Singing Competition and won first prize at the Singing Competition for Students of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.
Between 2021 and 2025, Michał Prószyński was a member of the opera ensemble at the Theater Bern, where he was able to distinguish himself with a repertoire ranging from Gluck's Pylades (Iphigénie en Tauride), Mozart's Tamino (The Magic Flute) and Pedrillo (The Abduction from the Seraglio) to Tchaikovsky's Lensky (Eugene Onegin) and Wagner's Mime (Das Rheingold) to Debussy's Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Strauss's Matteo (Arabella) and Janáček's Steva (Jenůfa).
With guest engagements in opera and concert performances at the Braunschweig State Theatre, as well as in concert halls and at festivals in Krakow, Warsaw, Munich, and Verbier, under conductors such as Yoel Gamzou, Stanislav Kochanovsky, and Gianandrea Noseda, highlights Michał Prószyński's distinctive voice.
Since the 2025/26 season, Michał Prószyński has been a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera.