Grabarek, Julian

Pianist/Coach
(Acton, Massachusetts)

Pianist Julian Grabarek is a recent graduate of the Collaborative Piano program at the University of Michigan. A second-year Adler Fellow, last year’s San Francisco Opera assignments included joining the music staff for The Magic Flute, Carmen, and Bohème Out of the Box.

In 2023 he was an apprentice vocal coach and pianist in the Merola Opera Program where he worked on Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Act II from Otello and appeared in the recital titled Metamorphosis. In the fall of 2023, he was a guest coach and chorus master at the University of Houston for a double bill of Offenbach’s Monsieur Choufleuri and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. Previously, he coached Don Giovanni and The Cunning Little Vixen at the University of Michigan.

As a recitalist, Grabarek is equally at home with vocalists and instrumentalists. He enjoys performing a wide range of music, from Schubert lieder to Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. In October 2023, he performed works by Poulenc, Britten, Butterworth, and more in recital with fellow Michigan alum and Adler Fellow baritone Samuel Kidd in Ann Arbor. In previous seasons, Grabarek was a collaborative pianist at the Aspen Summer Music Festival and performed in a cello recital at the Bellingham Music Festival.

Before his graduate studies, Grabarek achieved a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Oberlin College and Conservatory.