Jerzy Jeszke

[3][4][5] Born in Bytów, he started his four-year-long studies of acting and singing at the "Studio" Danuta Baduszkowa in 1976 and completed it with honours in 1980.

From 1987 until 1992 he had his first engagement outside Poland, first as a choir and single singer, from 1990 as a solo artist at the music theatre in Oberhausen, Germany, so he moved there.

At the international gala because of the 10th anniversary of the musical "Les Misérables" which took place in 1995 at the Royal Albert Hall in London[8](production: Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.), he represented Germany in the same role, so did he at the opening event of the Football European-Championship's final game 1996 at the Wembley Stadium in London, where he was one of 17 world's best "Jean Valjean"-actors (production: Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.).

Later in 1998 he succeeded in "The Phantom of the Opera"-casting in Hamburg, which has been held on Broadway (New York City) by producer Harold Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

At the beginning of 2002, Jerzy Jeszke played as a guest-star the role of the "Engineer" in "Miss Saigon" at the musical theatre Roma in Warsaw, Poland.

Engagements and concerts in Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, England, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Mexico, Egypt, the Czech Republic, Russia, Tunisia and Japan have been stations in his current career.

He played among others the "David" in the musical "Seesaw" by Cy Coleman, "Judas" in "Jesus Christ Superstar" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Prince Sou-Chong" in "The Land of Smiles" by Franz Lehár, "Caramello" in "One night in Venice" by Richard Strauss, "Pinkerton" in "Madame Butterfly" by Puccini, "Jontek" in "Halka" by Moniuszko and "Hoffmann" in "The Tales of Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach.

Besides appearances in television and radio Jerzy Jeszke sang at numerous national and international galas (Royal Albert Hall; Wembley Stadium, London; Congress Hall, Warsaw; Castel Gandolfo, Rome; Schloss Bellevue, Berlin; José Carreras foundation, Majorca).

He was exclusively engaged for Pope John Paul II, Roman Herzog, Michail Gorbatschow, Lech Wałęsa and US-senator Zbigniew Brzezinski.

The music of Jerzy Jeszke can be heard on the CD of the German production of "Les Misérables" as "Jean Valjean" and on his own CDs "Who I am?"