Conductor. A graduate of the Academy of Music in Cracow in the conducting class of Prof. Jerzy Katlewicz and in the violin class of Prof. Ewa Szubra-Jargoń. In the years 2002-2004, he was conductor and music director at the Castle Opera in Szczecin. From 2004 to 2023, he has collaborated with the Cracow Opera as conductor and music director. In the 2023-2024 artistic season, he was music director of the Silesian Opera in Bytom.
He has conducted over 900 opera, operetta and ballet performances, including musical direction of nearly 40 premieres. He also conducts numerous symphony concerts and oratoriosHis artistic achievements include both premieres and numerous recordings of theatre and film music, as well as numerous music arrangements and compositions including the musical arrangement of the ballet Macbeth, performed at the Silesian Opera in 2024.
For the Cracow stage he has prepared premieres of preformances such as Der Kaiser von Atlantis by V. Ullmann, Madama Butterfly, La Boheme and Turandot by G. Puccini, The Gypsy Baron by J. Strauss, La Traviata, The Troubadour, Otello and Requiem by G. Verdi, Ariadne on Naxos by R. Strauss, The Marriage of Figaro by W.A. Mozart, Carmina Burana by C. Orff, The Love for Three Oranges S. Prokofiev, Mefistofele by A. Boito, Tannhäuser by R. Wagner, The Tales of Hoffmann by J. Offenbach, and also as part of the K. Penderecki Festival The Devils of Loudun. After the renovation of the Silesian Opera’s stage, he has prepared revivals of preformances, such as La Boheme by G. Puccini, Don Pasquale by G. Donizetti, Nabucco by G. Verdi and premieres, including A Masked Ball, Macbeth by G. Verdi, Cyrk Giuseppe by P. Moss or Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart.
He has preformed with outstanding artists, inluding Aleksandra Kurzak, Andrzej Dobber, Mariusz Kwiecień, Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha, Artur Ruciński, Małgorzata Walewska. He collaborates with numerous institutions in Poland and abroad, including: symphonic orchestra in Trondheim (Norway), the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Chelyabinsk (Russia), the Institute for the Promotion of Polish Culture, the Polish Orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, the orchestras of the National Philharmonic, the Subcarpathian Philharmonic, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Cracow Philharmonic, the Częstochowa Philharmonic, the Szczecin Philharmonic, the Lower Silesian Philharmonic, the Pomeranian Philharmonic, the Koszalin Philharmonic; the symphoniy orchestras from Toruń and Płock, the orchestras of the Academies of Music in Kraków and Wrocław, as well as the Wrocław Opera, the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic, the Baltic Opera, the Opera Nova, the Kraków Opera and the Silesian Opera, the Grand Theatre in Łódź and the Grand Theatre in Poznań. He has participated in numerous festivals, amog others, Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland), Opera Gala Festival (Kuwait), Festival Internazionale delle Orchestre Giovanili (Italy), Operaverseny Es Festival Szeged (Hungary) or Festival International de Musica Sacra de Bogota (Colombia), as well as the Bydgoszcz Opera Festival, the A. Didur Festival in Sanok and the J. Kiepura Festival in Krynica Zdrój.
He was awarded the Honoris Gratia medal by the Mayor of Cracow, received the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis – from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and the Polonia Minor Medal for his professional and long-standing work in enriching the cultural life of the Małopolska region and its inhabitants from the Małopolska Voivodeship Government. In 2020, he received the Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Award in the “Best Conductor” category.
Since 2016, he has been a lecturer, and since the 2023/2024 academic year, he has conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the Karol Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow. In 2024, he was appointed assistant professor. In 2023, he received a Doctor of Arts degree from the Faculty of Conducting, Composition and Music Theory of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.