Piotr Wacławik

General Management

Piotr Wacławik is an accomplished conductor who will collaborate with renowned soloists Ivo Pogorelić, Bomsori, and Yulianna Avdeeva in the 2024/2025 season, performing with leading orchestras across Europe and Asia.

He was awarded a prestigious conducting fellowship with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for the 2024/2025 season. Previously, he served as assistant conductor with the National Philharmonic in Warsaw (2022–2024) and won the Aspen Conductor Prize at the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2024.

Wacławik’s talent has been recognized in several international conducting competitions, including third prize at the 7th Witold Lutosławski National Young Conductors Competition in 2022, and first prizes at the 5th Atlantic Coast International Conducting Competition (2019) and the London Classical Soloists International Conducting Competition (2018). He has also collaborated with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in a masterclass led by David Zinman.

He made his conducting debut at the age of 19 with the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and has held resident conductor roles with the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic (2019/2020) and the Świętokrzyska Philharmonic (2022/2023), in addition to serving as assistant conductor at the Silesian Opera and Kraków Opera.

Wacławik graduated with distinction in symphonic and operatic conducting from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and is also an assistant professor of conducting at the Karol Szymanowski Academy.