Bass-baritone. Appreciated as an outstanding opera singer, performer of contemporary music and lieder. A graduate of the Academy of Music and Dance in Warsaw in the class of Professor K. Pustelak, he is a laureate and finalist of international competitions in Vercelli, Las Palmas, and Brussels (the Queen Elizabeth Competition). He has performed numerous times on the world’s greatest stages and concert venues, including alla Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall in New York, Musikverein in Vienna, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Albert Hall in London, Théâtre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, NHK Tokyo, Philadelphia Philharmonic, Grand Théâtre de Geneve, and Tonhalle in Zurich. He has been invited to opera festivals including Salzburg, Glyndebourne, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, London (PROMS), and Wratislavia Cantans. The artist is also regularly invited by Poland’s most important philharmonics and opera houses, including the National Philharmonic, the TW–ON, and the Polish Royal Opera. He received the A. Hiolski Award for his performance in the title role of W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the TW–ON, staged by M. Treliński. He is a two-time winner of the Fryderyk Phonographic Award for his recordings of songs by H.M. Górecki and P. Łukaszewski. His recording of F. Nowowiejski’s Quo Vadis with the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra and the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Ł. Borowicz and featuring R. Gierlach as St. Peter, won one of the world’s most important phonographic awards – the ICMA. Professor Robert Gierlach also teaches solo singing at the Fryderyk Music Academy in Warsaw.