Born in Warsaw as son of a musical parents, Jan Petryka started studying cello at the Brucker Conservatory in Linz. During the subsequent years, he won numerous awards  both as solo-cellist and as chambermusician.

Jan Petryka started studying singing with Prof. Gertrud Schulz in Linz and continued his studies as solosinger with Prof. Rotraud Hansmann as well as Lied and Oratorio with KS Marjana Lipovsek at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where he finished his studies with distinction.

In sacral music, he developed a wide repertoire including franco-flemish vocal polyphony, cantatas by J.S. Bach, oratorias and masses of the Viennese classical composers up to contemporary compositions.

Jan Petryka sings with ensembles like the Arnold Schönberg Choir, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Chorus sine nomine, Clemencic Concort, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Neue Oper Wien, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Wien, Wiener Akademie, Wiener Kammerochester under conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies, Martin Haselböck, Manfred Huss, Erwin Ortner and Ralf Weikert.

His operatic roles include Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus, Orfeo in Monteverdi´s L´Orfeo, Oronte in Händel´s  Alcina and (extracts) of Tom Rakewell in The Rake´s Progress. Recently he could be seen in the roles of Bartholomew in Birtwistle´s The Last Supper for the Neue Oper Wien, Junker Spärlich in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor at the Festival Leoben in Steiermark and various roles in the children´s opera Traumfresserchen at the Vienna State Opera. Most recently, he sang the roles of Brabantischer Edler in Lohengrin at the Wagner Festival in Wels and Jaquino in Fidelio with the Pannonische Philharmonie.   

He records regularly for radio and CD in Austria and abroad. For the label BIS he recorded the role of Aret in Haydn´s Philemon und Baucis, issued on SACD. Furthermore he recorded vocal works by Anton Bruckner and Motets by Felix Mendelssohn with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, in which Jan Petryka participated as soloist.   He is price winner of the International Competition for Operetta and Viennese Song Competition in Baden bei Wien and the Competition for Contemporary Song oft he Petyrek-Lang Foundation in Vienna.

Last season he sang in concerts with the Clemencic Consort, in the first complete performance of Adrast (title role) by Franz Schubert and as 2nd Priest in The Magic Flute at the Landestheater Bregenz, conducted by Gérard Korsten. Further engagements included concerts at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein and at the European Opera Center Thessaloniki.      

This season he sang again in Schmidt's Das Buch mit den Sieben Siegeln conducted by Alois J. Hochstrasser; other appearances include concerts with the Bach Consort at the Händel Festival in Halle, a concert performance at the Konzerthaus Vienna of Schubert´s Alfonso und Estrella with the Mozarteum Orchestra under Ivor Bolton and as Grail Knight in Parsifal at the Wagner Festival Wels.

May 2012

Alfonso und Estrella - Konzerthaus Wien - Mai 2012 ... beachtlich auch die kurzen Auftritten von Jan Petryka. M. Eigl, Kurier

Opera

Beethoven – Fidelio – Jaquino

Birtwistle - Last Supper – Bartholomew

Händel - Alcina: Oronte

Händel - Acis and Galatea - Damon

Haydn - Philemon und Baucis - Aret

Hindemith - Hin und Zurück - Robert

Leitner – Die Sennenpuppe - Junge

Monteverdi – Orfeo - Orfeo

Mozart - Cosí fan tutte – Ferrando*

Mozart – Zauberflöte - Tamino*

Mozart - Don Giovanni - Don Ottavio*

Mozart – Zauberflöte - 2. Priester

Nicolai - Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Junker Spärlich

Purcell - Dido and Aeneas - Sailor

Schubert – Adrast – Adrast

Schubert –Alfonso und Estrella – Jüngling, Anführer

Smetana - Die Verkaufte Braut – Wenzel*

Strauss - Die Fledermaus - Dr. Blind

Strawinsky - Rake’s Progress - Tom Rakewell

Wagner – Parsifal - 1. Gralsritter*

Wagner – Lohengrin - 1. Brabantischer Edler

Oratorio

Bach - Johannespassion (Arien)

Bach - Magnificat

Bach - Mathäuspassion (Evangelist & Arien)*

Bach - Weihnachtsoratorium (Evangelist & Arien)

Bach Kantaten: BWV: 6, 10, 12, 23, 29, 61, 62, 63, 66, 70, 76, 78, 93, 131, 140, 142, 147, 156, 165, 173, 184, 211

C.P.E. Bach – Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu

Beethoven - C-Dur-Messe, 9.Sinfonie

Bizet - Te Deum

Bernstein - Chichester Psalms

Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb*

Charpentier - Te Deum

Despretz - Missa Dux Hercules Ferrariae

Dvorak - D-Dur-Messe, Te Deum

Gounod - Cäcilienmesse

Händel – Messiah

Händel - Utrechter te Deum

Händel - Dettinger te Deum

Haydn – Die Jahreszeiten

Haydn – Schöpfung

Haydn - Stabat Mater

Haydn - Die 7 letzen Worte

Haydn - Regina Coeli

Haydn – Schöpfungsmesse

Haydn – Theresienmesse

Haydn – Paukenmesse

Haydn – Nelsonmesse

Haydn – Mariazellermesse

Haydn - Große Orgelsolomesse

E.T.A. Hoffmann - Miserere

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Elias*

Mozart – Requiem

Mozart - Vesparae Solennes

Mozart - KV 195- Litaniae Lauretanae

Mozart - Veni Sancte Spiritus

Mozart – fast sämtliche Messen

Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli

Rachmaninoff - Große Vesperliturgie op.37

Rossini - Petite Messe Solenelle

Schnittke - 2. Symphonie „St. Florian“

Schmidt - Buch mit sieben Siegeln

Schubert - Messen: C-Dur, B-Dur, As-Dur, Es-Dur(1.T.&2.T.), F-Dur (2.T.), G-Dur

Schubert -  Stabat Mater

Schubert - Auguste iam coelestium

Schubert - Salve Regina f. Tenor u. Orch.

Schumann - c-Moll-Messe

Telemann - Johannespassion

Vivaldi - Gloria

Vivaldi - Stabat Mater

Vivaldi - Magnificat

Weber – Freischützmesse

* studied parts