CONDUCTOR | PIANIST
Operas
Piotr Komorowski was a conductor and musical director of the following opera shows:
La finta semplice (Mozart) Warsaw Chamber Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "La finta semplice"
Director: Ryszard Peryt
Stage Design : Andrzej Sadowski
Cast:
Rosina - Anna Maćkowiak, Olga Pasiecznik
Don Cassandro - Adam Kruszewski
Don Polidoro - Leszek Świdziński
Giacinta - Eugenia Rezler, Mirosława Tukalska
Ninetta - Danuta Hajduk
Fracasso - Jerzy Knetig
Simone - Andrzej Klimczak
Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart) Warsaw Chamber Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Bastien und Bastienne"
Director: Ryszard Peryt
Stage Design : Andrzej Sadowski
Cast:
Bastienne - Urszula Jankowska
Bastien - Michał Kanclerski
Colas - Sławomir Jurczak
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (Mozart) Warsaw Chamber Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots"
Director: Ryszard Peryt
Stage Design : Andrzej Sadowski
Cast:
Gerechtigkeit - Zofia Witkowska, Urszula Palonka
Barmherzigkeit - Aleksandra Hofman, Zofia Kilanowicz
Weltgeist - Agnieszka Kurowska
Christgeist - Jacek Laszczkowski
Christ - Andrzej Jaworski
Thamos – outdoor show with music of W.A. Mozart (staged in the water Palace in Royal Lazienki Garden in Warsaw) Warsaw Chamber Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Thamos"
Director: Ryszard Peryt
Stage Design : Andrzej Sadowski i
Cast:
Malgorzta Martyńska, Marzanna Rudnicka, Agnieszka Lipska, Mirosława Tukalska,Zdzisław Kordyjalik, Adam Zdunikowski, Bartłomiej Bukowski, Sławomir Jurczak, Przemysław Rezner.
Cosi fan tutte (Mozart) The Society of the Classical Arts, Wellington - Palm Beach, Florida
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Cosi fan tutte"
Director: Malcolm Arnold
Stage Design: Zachariah Phillips
Wykonawcy:
Anna Marie Dupre - Fiordiligi
Elizabeth Russo - Dorabella
Michael W. Kruger - Guglielmo
Arnold Rawls - Ferrando
Melanie Sarakatsannis - Despina
Gordon Longhofer - Don Alfonso
L'amante di tutte (Galuppi) Warszawska Opera Kameralna
Baldassare Galuppi - "L'amante di tutte"
Director: Giovanni Pampiglione
Stage Design: Santi Migneco
Cast:
Clarice - Dorota Całek, Edyta Ciechomska
Lucinda - Beata Libera
Dorina - Marta Boberska, Agnieszka Wolska
Conte Eugenio - Michał Kanclerski
Don Orazio - Andrzej Klimczak
Mingone - Zdzisław Kordyjalik, Krzysztof Kur
Marchese Canoppio - Sławomir Jurczak, Witold Żołądkiewicz
Hånsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) staged concert, Lublin Philharmonic Hall
Concerts
...as a pianist
since the early years he has been giving solo and chamber concerts. Accompanied by an orchestra he has been performing the music of Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Shostakovich as well as Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1, with, among others, National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, or Gershwin’s Concerto in F with Miami Symphony. Cooperation with singers was one of the most important issues in Piotr’s pianist activity. For a period of time Piotr was almost completely dedicated to voice and piano repertoire.
...as a conductor
he has been leading the concerts of many orchestras both in Poland and abroad. He cooperated with such soloists as: Regina Smendzianka, Kaja Danczowska, Marie-Annick Nicolas, Jerzy Sulikowski, Bartlomiej Niziol, Arienne Haering, Jerzy Godziszewski, Paweł Gusnar, Marek Pasieczny and others.
Musicals
In 1996 Piotr started cooperation with German producers. As the conductor and musical director he prepared 8 stage shows that were performed 1600 times in many countries.
- George Gershwin Musical Gala
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Gala
- American Rhapsody (show based on Gershwin’s music)
- Phantasy Musical Gala (based on the music of Disney movies and musicals)
- Welcome 2000 (it is a "history of song" prepared for welcoming the new century)
- Fire of Dance (dance show, based on Irish music)
- Musical Classics
- Musical Starlights
Solist .: Espen Grjotheim, Sabine Hettlich, Maricel, Adrienne West, Caroline Vasicek, Timothy Breese Miller, Soren Fenner, Mate Kamaras, Jana Werner, Max Polack, Guilleme Alonso, Joel Hanna.
Special Events
"Oratorium Kalwaryjskie" (Kalwaria Oratory) by Zbigniew Książek and Bartłomiej Gliniak premiered on August 15th in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. The creators of the Oratory asked Piotr to compere this huge event. The concert, in which more than 150 artists took part, was recorded by Polish Television.
In 1996 Piotr conducted the concert of an untypical orchestra – composed of 10 pianos. Altogether more than 60 pianists took part in this special event. The concert took place in Warsaw.
Alfred Hause Tango Orchestra three times visited Japan with Piotr Komorowski as a conductor and master of ceremonies. Each time the musicians gave a series of performances in the concert halls like: Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Festivel Hall, Osaka, Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Sapporo Concert Hall, Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijo, Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall, Orchard Hall, Tokyo
In March and April 2006 Freddy Quinn – the German song legend – went on a jubilee European concert tour. The premiere and first concerts took place in Konzerthaus in Vienna. Piotr was the conductor and musical director.