A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, he studied symphonic and operatic conducting under Professor R. Dudek and Professor B. Madey. He completed postgraduate studies in musicology and early music performance practice at the University of Oxford with A. Parrott. He also furthered his knowledge by attending music courses in Vienna, Siena, Innsbruck, Bressanone as well as with the legendary Finnish professor J. Panula. He has lived in London for 20 years, where he worked as conductor of London Symphony Orchestra. He was also artistic director of one of the largest polish cultural program in 2011 –the I, CULTURE Orchestra, the official orchestra of the Polish Presidency of the European Union, which preformed in Europe’s most important concert halls. During his professional career, he has had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s greatest conductors, receiving excellent feedback from such masters of the baton as Sir C. Davis, Sir S. Rattle, Sir N. Marriner, Y. Temirkanov, and A. Parrott. In 1995, to mark the 300th anniversary of H. Purcell’s death, he organized and conducted a concert in Warsaw of the Polish baroque orchestra Arte dei Suonatori—for the first time with the full ensemble. From 1996 to 1998, he served successively as Artistic Director of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra and the Oxford University Philharmonia. From 1997 to 1998, he worked as Assistant Conductor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, collaborating particularly closely with the prestigious Department of Opera Studies there. In addition, from 1998, he worked regularly for five years as assistant conductor with current director of the Berlin Philharmonic Sir S. Rattle. His artistic interests, in addition to opera, contemporary music, and classical repertoire, also encompass early music. In 2008, he received a particularly prestigious invitation: he became the first Polish conductor to perform for MEPs with the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) at a concert in the European Parliament’s Hemicycle in Strasbourg, opening the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Parliament. In 2009, he became the first Polish conductor of his generation to perform with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (considered by the international press to be one of the best in the world). He has performed with most Polish philharmonic orchestras, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic, recorded with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and collaborated with the Szczecin Castle Opera and the Warsaw Chamber Opera. He has conducted in most European countries and beyond, including, with the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, London Symphony Orchestra, Drottningholms Barockensemble, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine, the Belarusian State Philharmonic, the National Chamber Orchestra of Georgia – Georgian Sinfonietta and one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras, the London Mozart Players. He has performed in such prestigious concert halls as the Ópera São Paulo, Opera Monte-Carlo, the National Philharmonic, the T. Szewczenko National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Opera in Madrit, the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Royal Conservatory in Brussesl and in London at the Barbican CENTRE, the Royal Albert Hall, and, as the only Polish conductor of the last twenty-five years, the renowned Royal Festival Hall. His recordings have been broadcast by radio stations in Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Belgium, Great Britain and Spain. In 2004 he received a medal from Polish Association of Choirs and Orchestras. In 2007, he won a competition organized by the Murray-Smith Laird Foundation and the London Symphony Orchestra, which earned him an invitation to collaborate with the orchestra as part of a prestigious program under the personal patronage of Sir C. Davis. In 2011, he was also among 20 musicians nominated by Polish critics for the Polityka Passport Award. He has served on the jury of the National W. Lutosławski Competition for Young Conductors and the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year competition. In 2016, he received Poland’s oldest regional distinction – the Golden Badge of Honor of the West Pomeranian Griffin – from the Marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. From January 2016 until the end of the 2016/2017 season, he was associated with the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic as artistic director and principal conductor.