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conductor; b. 1989 in Bydgoszcz. He graduated in orchestral and stage conducting from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk after studies with Wojciech Michniewski and Zygmunt Rychert.

As a guitarist he won the 2nd prize in the National Competition for Young Instrumentalists in Bydgoszcz.

Since 2013 he has been an assistant conductor at Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, where he has conducted many spectacles and collaborated on the premieres of Halka by Stanisław Moniuszko, Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Die Csárdásfürstin by Imre Kálmán, and Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. As a beneficiary of the 3rd Conductor-in-Residence programme implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance, he developed his skills conducting the Karol Namysłowski Symphony Orchestra in Zamość in 2015-16.

He gained professional experience as an assistant to such conductors as Maciej Figas, Wojciech Rajski, Piotr Wajrak, Tadeusz Wicherek, and Henryk Wierzchoń. He has conducted, among others, the Opera Nova ensembles, orchestras of the Pomeranian Philharmonic and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic in Sopot, Elbląg Chamber Orchestra, Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra in Gdańsk, Artur Rubinstein Symphony Orchestra Music Schools Symphony Orchestra in Bydgoszcz, and Karol Namysłowski Symphony Orchestra in Zamość, in performances featuring such singers as Łukasz Goliński, Sylwester Kostecki, Zenon Kowalski, Tomasz Kuk, Joanna Moskowicz, Agnieszka Piass, Urszula Piwnicka, Leszek Skrla, Paweł Skałuba, Adam Sobierajski, Tadeusz Szlenkier, Pavlo Tolstoy, Jolanta Wagner, Anna Wierzbicka and Adam Zdunikowski.

He specialises in opera performances and contemporary works by young composers. In 2012 he conducted a performance of Subtilia by Michał Gronowicz at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. In 2014 he took part in preparations to the premiere performance of Concerto for Cello, String Orchestra and Electronic Sounds by Marcin Gumiela.

updated: November 2015 (wa)