Born in 1976 in Kraków, he is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, from the symphony and opera conducting class of Prof. Ryszard Dudek. In 1999, he took part in classes at the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg, in the class of Prof. Ilya Musin.

   He began his collaboration with the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera in 2004, preparing Salome by Richard Strauss. In 2004-2006, he was Jacek Kaspszyk’s assistant, working on the following opera productions: Puccini’s Tosca, Verdi’s Aida, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Penderecki’s Ubu Rex, and Berg’s Wozzeck. He toured Japan, Spain and Norway with the Teatr Wielki and Jacek Kaspszyk, as an assistant conductor. He was commissioned by the Bergen Opera Vest to prepare the premiere of Salome, working with the Bergen Symphony Orchestra.

   In the 2006/2007 artistic season he was an assistant to Kazimierz Kord, working on the following opera productions: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Verdi’s La Traviata, Nabucco and Rigoletto, Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor and Halka, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Rossini’s Tancredi and Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Bizet’s Carmen, and Krauze’s Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy. He conducted Via Sancta, a Polish National Opera production with lyrics by Karol Wojtyła. As an assistant he was also working on Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher and Strauss's Elektra. In 2010 he conducts Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty.

Photo: Dariusz Sobieski