Hubert Zapiór wins top song prize at Gerda Lissner Competition

Hubert  Zapiór

Polish barihunk Hubert  Zapiór won the Lieder/Song Prize and $10,000 at the 2018 Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition in New York City. The female winner was soprano Courtney Johnson.  The competition's top overall award of $15,000 went to tenor Matthew White.

The Gerda Lissner Foundation was created by Gerda Lissner, a Metropolitan Opera subscriber for 77 years with the mission of providing young opera singers with the financial support they need to pursue their craft and excel in the world of opera.

Upcoming performances for Zapiór include Mendelssohn's Elijah at Paul Recital Hall at Juilliard on October 15th and Britten's War Requiem with the Albany Symphony on November 10th. He returns to his native Poland on December 14th to sing Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Teatr Wieki.