Pannon Philharmonic

Jan Jakub Monowid was a student of Professor Jerzy Artysz at Warsaw Academy of Music and then he continued his studies in The International Opera Studio in Zurich.
He began his concert work while still a student, taking part in performances of works by such composers as Bach, Pergolesi, Handel, Liszt and Britten, in Poland and abroad.
He took second place in the Gianni Bergamo Competition in Lugano.
His debut on the operatic stage came in 2004, as Ottone in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Warsaw Chamber Opera, which he joined on completing his studies.
Besides numerous chamber concerts featuring early and contemporary music all over Europe, he has sung such parts as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Ramiro in La finta giardiniera and Farnace in Mitridate, re di Ponto (all by Mozart), the titular role in Rossini’s Tancredi and in Handel's Orlando, Goffredo in Rinaldo, Tirinto in Imeneo and Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare (also by Handel), Prince Orlofsky in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Oberon in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, leading roles in contemporary operas, e.g. Cain by Pałłasz, Operette by Dobrzyński and Polieukt by Krauze.
He has recorded discs featuring works by Polish composers (the ‘opera omnia’ of both Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki and Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński), Handel’s Giulio Cesare also contemporary music (And farewell goes out sighing by Kancheli  and Sonnets sur un poème de Louise Labé by Dalbavie)