Piotr Sulkowski - conductor

Conductor of Opera in Cracow, music director and conductor of Opera Wildwood Festival in Little Rock (AR) USA. Founder and director of Chamber Orchestra "Forum Sinfonia". He studied at the Academy of Music in Cracow, where he finished two faculties with honours: Faculty of Musical Education (1993) and Faculty of Theory, Composition and Conducting (1997) in J.Katlewicz's class. Several times he received a scholarschip of the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart where he participated in conducting courses run by H. Rilling and J.E. Gardinier. In 1996 within the framework of the scholarship he was invited to the Oregon Bach Festival in USA for a master conducting course combined with concerts. He also received the Creative Award of the President of Cracow for outstanding achievementes in conducting (1995). In 1992 he founded the Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra (at present Forum Sinfonia) which he is still conducting today. He has performed with it at many national and international festivals and also together with the orchestra won 1st place in the "best performance" category awarded by the Critics' Chapter during the 2nd Forum of Young Composers.
He is working together with many orchestras at home and abroad (Sinfonia Varsovia, Cracow Philharmonic, Musical Theatre Roma, and Tupelo Symphony Orchestra) and since 1993 he is engaged in educational work.. He has been conducting the chorus and the orchestra of the State Music School in Cracow, with which he is giving. He co-operates with music theatres in Poland (Roma Music Theatre, Gliwice Music Theatre) and in USA, where he made premieres of "La Boheme", "Don Pasquale", "Hansel und Gretel", "La Finta Gardiniera" and "Die Fledermaus". In Cracow Opera he prepared premieres: "The Nutcracker", "Hansel und Gretel" and "Man of La Mancha". He has also in his opera repertoire: "Tosca", "Madame Butterfly", "Carmen", "Don Giovanni", "Die Zauberfloete", "Nabucco", "Faust", "I Capuleti e i Monteschi", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Traviata", "Fiddler on the roof", "Oklahoma", "Ubu Rex", "Die schwarze Maske", "Straszny Dwór".

The author of concerts in the cycle "Music Without Barriers" and music education programm "Muzykomania"