After graduating from the piano class at the State High School of Music in Katowice, he earned two diplomas (with distinction) at the academies of music: in Katowice (music theory) and Bydgoszcz (solo singing). He also studied symphonic and opera conducting under Jan Wincenty Hawl.
He is the founder and co-founder of many vocal and vocal-instrumental formations. In 1998, he founded the La Tempesta Ensemble, with which he regularly performs and records 16th to 20th century music in the HIP (Historical Informed Performance) genre. As a soloist, he has performed leading and supporting roles in operas by Charpentier, Purcell, Vivaldi, Handel, Mysliveček, Mozart, Krauze and Zych. He has recorded over 25 albums for the BIS, ARTS, DIVOX, NAXOS, MUSICON and DUX labels. His album Vespers of Sorrow, with compositions by A. Vivaldi, was hailed as Record of the Year by the Music Web International portal, and excerpts from it were used as the soundtrack for the French film DIVINES, awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2009-12, he performed in Pierre de Marivaux’s Les Fausses Confidences, directed by Jacques Lassalle at the National Theatre in Warsaw. Jakub Burzyński is the artistic director of the Baroque Music Festival in Radość, a long-standing lecturer at the Summer School in Kelč, Holešov, Valtica, Velehrad and Broumov (Czech Republic), the artistic director of the Schloss Scharfeneck International Summer School of Early Music and a regular speaker at the Silent Music Festival in Toruń.
Jakub Burzyński’s solo repertoire includes early music, classical and contemporary music, both sacred forms as well as opera and chamber music. He has sung with many ensembles and orchestras, under the baton of such conductors as Roman Válek, Marek Toporowski, Łukasz Borowicz, Paweł Kos-Nowicki, Jacek Urbaniak and Agata Sapiecha. He has also given concerts – also as a conductor – at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw, the Royal Castle in Warsaw and Kraków.
He performed on the stage of the Warsaw Chamber Opera in such operas as Georg Friedrich Handel’s Rinaldo (Goffredo), Apollo and Hyacinth (Hyacinth), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mitridates (King of Pontus, Farnakes), and Zygmunt Krauze’s Balthazar (The Mighty Man). In 2008, the Czech premiere of the opera Dorilla in Tempe by Antonio Vivaldi took place, in which the artist created the role of Apollo/Nomia. In 2009, he took part in the performance of Pierre de Marivaux’s Les Fausses Confidences, directed by Jacques Lassalle at the National Theatre in Warsaw. In 2010, he sang the part of Ptolomé in Handel’s opera Julius Caesar in Liberec (Czech Republic) and Frankenthal (Germany).
