Piotr Sulkowski

Principal Guest Conductor for the Signature Classics series, Piotr Sulkowski is music director and conductor of the Cracow Opera as well as music director and conductor of Opera Wildwood Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Founder and director of  the Polish chamber orchestra Forum Sinfonia, Sulkowski studied at the Academy of Music in Cracow, receiving degrees with honors in Music Education (1993) and Theory, Composition, and Conducting (1997). He has received several scholarships with the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart, where he participated in conducting courses by H. Rilling and J.E. Gardinier.

In 1996 he was invited to the Oregon Bach Festival for a master conducting course combined with concerts. Recipient of the 1995 Creative Award of the President of Cracow for outstanding achievements in conducting, Sulkowski has performed with Forum Sinfonia at many national and international festivals, and won 1st place in the "best performance" category awarded by the Critics' Chapter during the 2nd Forum of Young Composers.

Sulkowski has worked with many orchestras at home and abroad (Sinfonia Varsovia, Cracow Philharmonic, Musical Theatre Roma, and Tupelo Symphony Orchestra) and since 1993 is also engaged in educational work.  He has conducted the chorus and orchestra of the State Music School in Cracow and cooperates with music theatres in Poland (Roma Music Theatre, Gliwice Music Theatre) and in the United States where he conducted a variety of opera premieres.  

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