Maciek O’Shea read History at University College London and during the same period was a choral scholar at Southwalk Cathedral. He subsequently moved to Oxford as a Lay Clerk of Christ Church Cathedral Choir for one year. He is currently a Gentleman of H.M. Chapel Royal.

Solo appearances have included performances of J.S. Bach’s Magnificat; the Requiems of Brahms, Faure, and Mozart; Haydn’s Creation; Handel’s Messiah, Dettingen Te Deum; Pilate in the St John Passion by Bach; Stainer’s Crucifixion; Purcell’s Come ye Sons of Art; Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs; Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, scenes from Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus and Bach’s B Minor Mass at St John’s, Smith Square with the London Mozart Players.

On stage he has performed the role of Zoroastro in Handel’s Orlando, and Luka in The Bear by Walton, both for "New Chamber Opera". For the same company also the title role in The Marriage of Figaro for masterclasses given by Sir Thomas Allen, and that of Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte for Graham Vick. For University College Opera he has played the roles of Orlick in Mazeppa by Tchaikovsky; Rocco in The Jewels of the Madonna by Wolf-Ferrari; 1st Man in the British Premiere of Aulis Sallinen’s Kullervo; and in March 2003 the role of Roger in Ciboulette by Reynaldo Hahn, at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London.

In July 2002 Maciek was invited by Revelli to appear in the inaugural Oxford Lieder Festival, performing Winterreise at the Holywell Music Room, with further invitations to appear in the 2003 Festival, when he performed songs from Schumann's Myrten and Franck Martin's Six Monologues from Jedermann with pianist Sholto Kynoch at the Holywell Music Room, and again in 2004.

Maciek is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, where he started in September 2005.

Maciek can be contacted at maciek25@hotmail.com