Mikołaj Bońkowski
Mateusz Słowikowski

Mikołaj Bońkowski

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He began his musical training at the singing department of the Karol Lipiński Music Academy in Wroclaw in the solo singing class of Prof. Bogdan Makala. As part of the scholarship, he completed his last year of study at the Dresden University of Music in the class of Prof. Edward Randall.

He made his stage debut in 2017 as Bartolo in “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Breslau Opera. During his studies he played many important roles in plays by Roberto Skolmowski, including Charly in Karol Szymanowski's "Lottery na mężów" and the title role in WA Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

Singer of the Wroclaw Theater Society, whose task it is to restore the former glory to the small stage works by Stanisław Moniuszko. At the annual Moniuszko Festival he played leading roles in the pieces "Karmaniol", "Ideal" and "Nowy Don Quixote", which were also performed at the Warsaw Chamber Opera.

In 2021 he sang the role of mandarin in G. Puccini's opera "Turandot" at one of the largest opera festivals in Europe - the opera in the stone quarry in Austria.

His repertoire includes many concerts, oratorios and cantatas, including solo parts in "Messiah" by GF Handel, "Christmas Oratorio" JS Bach, "Descensus Christi" by R. Augustyn, "Magnificat" by M.Żebrowski.

He has worked with many important conductors, including: G. Guerrero, P. McCreesh, S. Cambreling, A. Franków-Żelazny. Active member of the European Choir Academy in Görlitz.

From May 2018 he is an actor / singer of the "Pieśń Kozła" Theater, with which he has performed at the Israel Festival in Jerusalem, the Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk, the Warsaw Theatertreffen, the Enter Festival with the accompaniment of Leszek Możdżer and major stages in the world like the Great Theater of China in Shanghai, the Zellerbach Hall of the University of California in Berkeley and Shakespeare's Globe in London.