The Polish bass Piotr Nowacki graduated from the Lódz Academy of Music in 1985. He has won prizes at vocal competitions in Warsaw, Kudowa, Bytom and Krynica, and took part in the finals of the Belvedere International Vocal Competition in Vienna, a success that brought him to La Scala, Milan, where he made his début in 1987 in the title-rôle in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tale of Tsar Saltan. He won a prize in the Luciano Pavarotti Competition in Philadelphia and was subsequently invited to sing the part of Wurm in Verdi’s Luisa Miller. He has also performed in Washington and at the Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. Following his return from the United States in 1990, he has frequently sung at La Monnaie in Brussels.

His operatic repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to Richard Strauss, and he has taken part in many concerts of oratorios, appearing as a guest at the international festivals in Edinburgh and Granada. He is a soloist of the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw.