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Recently seen performing with the choir at
the Royal Wedding, Maciek completed the postgraduate singing course
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Previously he was a
choral scholar at Southwalk Cathedral, and subsequently moved to
Oxford as a Lay Clerk of Christ Church Cathedral Choir for one year
then carried on to be a Gentleman of H.M.Chapel
Royal.
Solo appearances have included performances
of J.S. Bach's Magnificat; the Requiems of Brahms, Faure, and Mozart;
Haydn's Creation; Handel's Messiah, Dettingen Te Deum; Pilate in
the St John Passion by Bach; Stainer's Crucifixion; Purcell's Come
ye Sons of Art; Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs; Orff's Carmina
Burana at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, scenes from Tchaikovsky,
Eugene Onegin and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with Welwyn
Garden City Orchestra and Chorus and Bach's B Minor Mass at St John's,
Smith Square with the London Mozart Players.
On stage he has performed the role of Zoroastro
in Handel's Orlando, and Luka in The Bear by Walton, both for "New
Chamber Opera". For the same company also the title role in The
Marriage of Figaro for masterclasses given by Sir Thomas Allen,
and that of Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte for Graham Vick. For University
College Opera he has played the roles of Orlick in Mazeppa by Tchaikovsky;
Rocco in The Jewels of the Madonna by Wolf-Ferrari; 1st Man in the
British Premiere of Aulis Sallinen's Kullervo; and in March 2003
the role of Roger in Ciboulette by Reynaldo Hahn, at the Bloomsbury
Theatre, London.
In July 2002 Maciek was invited by Revelli
to appear in the inaugural Oxford Lieder Festival, performing Winterreise
at the Holywell Music Room, with further invitations to appear in
the 2003 Festival, when he performed songs from Schumann's Myrten
and Franck Martin's Six Monologues from Jedermann with pianist Sholto
Kynoch at the Holywell Music Room, and again in 2004. In July 2005
Maciek was the winner of the 2005 Thames Valley Young Musicians'
Platform, part of the Oxfordshire youth music trust. He
has recently completed a successful season with the English Touring
Opera's 2009 production of Mozart's Magic Flute.
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