Stanisław Daniel Kotliński

Stanisław Daniel Kotliński
He studied at the Gdańsk Academy of Music with Barbara Iglikowska, specializing in Italy at the Accademia Chigiana and the Fiesole Academy, under the guidance of the masters: Giorgio Favaretto, Fedora Barbieri, Lajos Kozma, Claudio Desderi and Rolando Panerai.

In his youth he was a music journalist, spokesman for the “Solidarność” Union, and a political prisoner in communist Poland. His international singing career began in Florence, where he made his debut in Schönberg's opera „Moses und Aron” conducted by Zubin Mehta. As the protagonist in the role of Eddy he sang in the Italian premiere of the opera "Greek" by M. A. Turnage, at the Festival „Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte” of Montepulciano (also in a TV version for RAI) with the artistic direction of H. W. Henze (1991). At the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival he performed in the first Italian performance of the stage version of Kurt Weill's "Berliner Requiem". His singing activity was interrupted for health reasons for several years, he was a music manager. He was the first superintendent of the Teatro dell'Auditorium al Duomo, for years he has been a musical expert at the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation in Florence. He has collaborated with Carnegie Hall, Teatro alla Scala; Puccini Festival, Ravenna and Wexford Festival; with Krzysztof Penderecki and the Sinfonia Varsovia, Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic, James Levine and the Munich Philharmonic, Yakov Kreizberg with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Jacek Kaspszyk and the Munich Radio Orchestra, Claudio Desderi and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, and Plácido Domingo with the “Arturo Toscanini” Philharmonic. During the years 2009-2024 he performed in many important artistic institutions of the world: in Berlin, Bonn, Alicante, Florence, Doha, Dresden, Jinan, Hangzhou, Muscat, Nanchang, Parma, St. Petersburg, Rome, Mexico City, Bad Kissingen, Martina Franca, Marseille, Milan, Monte-Carlo, Munich, Moscow, Prague, Beijing, Salzburg, Lisbon, Lucerne, Vaduz, Valencia, Warsaw, Vienna, Vilnius and New York. The first Polish artist to perform at the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman, he sang at the Qatar Opera House for the anniversary of the National Orchestra created by Lorin Maazel. Under the guidance of Lawrence Foster he was Père Laurence in Berlioz's “Roméo et Juliette” with the Gulbenkian Philharmonic. With the Chinese conductor Chen Zuohuang he concluded the season of the NCPA National Performing Art Center in Beijing together with the violinist Ning Feng. He was the first resident artist in the thirty-year history of the Bavarian “Kissinger Sommer” Festival. At the Lucerne festival he was Salieri in the opera "Mozart and Salieri" by Rimsky-Korsakov. For Bayerischer Rundfunk he recorded “L’Elisir d’amore” as Dulcamara. At the Rudolfinum in Prague he performed with the Czech National Philharmonic conducted by Jirí Belohlávek, in Haydn's oratorio „Die Schöpfung”, and in Beethoven's „Missa Solemnis”. For the inauguration of the Verdi year he performed in Munich in the opera "I due Foscari". With the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Alain Altinoglu he sang Rossini's "Stabat Mater". He sang with Edita Gruberowa, on the occasion of the 45-year career of the famous soprano, at the Gasteig in Munich and at the Musikverein in Vienna. For Arte TV he recorded Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" with Waltraud Meier, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille and Lawrence Foster. He shared concerts with pianists such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Khatia Buniatishvili, Evgeny Bozhanov, Igor Levit, Daniil Trifonov and Lang Lang. During the Dresdner Musikfestspiele he sang Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann. In Munich he sang with the soprano Olga Peretyatko, at the “Mozarteum” in Salzburg he performed with the American pianist Donald Sulzen. For the conclusion of the Beethoven Festival in Valencia he sang at the Palau de la Musica with the Orchestra de Valencia and Yaron Traub. During the International Festival “Solidarity of Arts” (Gdańsk, 2017), he made his debut as Rocco in Beethoven's opera “Fidelio” conducted by Julien Salemkour. He is one of the founders of the International Festival “Stars & Rising Stars” in Munich, inaugurated in 2017 with Cecilia Bartoli, in which great artists present young musical talents. He held concerts in Bonn for the Beethoven celebrations with the Salzburger Hofmusik Orchestra of Salzburg. He also appeared as the protagonist in Donizetti's operas „The Bell” and „Grass Thursday” to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Chamber Opera. He was Lucifer in Alessandro Stradella's "Cantata for the Most Holy Christmas", broadcasted worldwide from the Royal Castle of Warsaw during the Covid period. He carries out an intense teaching activity, is a full professor of musical art in Gdansk, at the „Stanisław Moniuszko” Academy of Music, and has held courses and seminars in Munich, Salzburg, Berlin, Florence, Parma, Pescara, Dresden, Teramo, Saarbrücken, Mexico City and Beijing. He has received important awards and recognitions in Poland and around the world. In 2017, during a ceremony held at the "Salone dei Cinquecento" of Palazzo Vecchio, he was awarded the "Lorenzo il Magnifico European Prize" by the Medici Academy of Florence, already given to illustrious personalities, such as Pavarotti, Panerai, Tebaldi, Eco, Fo, Gassman, Mitoraj, Agnelli, Andreotti, Ciampi, Mitterrand, Brandt and Gorbachov. In 2020 he sang in Salzburg and on tour in China with „Orchester 1756 Salzburg”. In summer 2022 he sang with the Lithuanian National Orchestra and the Vilnius Choir, in the first Lithuanian performance of the opera-oratorio „Marie Magdeleine” by Jules Massenet. 2022 he recorded a CD entitled „Sir Paolo Tosti and his fascinating World of Fin-de-Siècle”, dedicated to the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (Tosti, Braga, Bridge, Verdi). He sang in recitals for Tosti's anniversary (2021) in Ortona (Teatro Tosti), in Warsaw (Teatro Nazionale), and in Florence (Teatro Niccolini) in 2023. He performed the repertoire of Gustav Mahler (“Des Knaben Wunderhorn”) with the Zielona Góra Philharmonic conducted by Rafał Kłoczko (2024). To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Rolando Panerai, one of the most legendary Italian baritones of the 20th century, in October 2024 Kotliński participated in the conference dedicated to the Tuscan baritone, also performing a concert "Rolando Panerai in Memoriam" with Marco Balderi in Florence. At the end of the Puccini year he sang a recital at the Italian Institute in Warsaw with Tamara Granat on the piano, entitled "Puccini & Friends". He has recorded for Dux, Foné, Naxos America, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte TV, Polish Radiotelevisione, RAI – Italian Radiotelevision, Russian National Television, Chinese CCTV, Qatar TV, Oman TV, for Polish, French, Czech, Swiss and Spanish Radio.