Maciej Tomasiewicz
A graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice where he studied composition and theory of music, as well as symphonic and opera conducting in Szymon Bywalec's class, and where he has been working as an assistant since 2024. He has participated in masterclasses led by Gabriel Chmura, Jacek Kaspszyk and Larry Livingston, among others.
Since 2014, he has been associated with the Archetti Chamber Orchestra of Jaworzno. He has successfully conducted the Polish Youth Symphony Orchestra in Bytom and the Karol Szymanowski Youth Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. He has twice been a beneficiary of the National Institute of Music and Dance's ‘Conductor-in-Residence’ programme.
He has performed with such ensembles as the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, {oh!} Historical Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Polish Royal Opera, Wrocław Opera, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw and the New Music Orchestra, as well as with most Polish philharmonic orchestras.
He has collaborated with the Silesian Opera, where he conducted, among others, the ballet premieres of Scheherazade/Medea, Sól ziemi czarnej and the premiere of Ludomir Różycki's opera Medusa, as well as revivals of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, Der Zigeunerbaron by Johann Strauss the Son, Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and Stanisław Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor. At the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok, he conducted Georges Bizet's Carmen and Puccini's Turandot, among others.
In the 2016/2017 season, he collaborated as assistant conductor with the Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra. In 2019–2022, he was assistant conductor to Andrzej Boreyko at the Warsaw Philharmonic, in 2020–2022 – artistic director of the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, and in the 2022/2023 season – deputy music director at the Silesian Opera. Since September 2025, he has held the position of artistic director of the Sudecka Philharmonic Orchestra in Wałbrzych. In 2021, he received the Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture.
He has performed at such festivals as the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, the Saaremaa Opera Festival, the Malta Festival, Opera Rara Kraków, Brand New Music, La Folle Journée in Warsaw, and at the Silesian Composers' Tribune.
Polish music is the leading theme in the artist's rich and versatile repertoire. Maciej Tomasiewicz has recorded compositions by Ryszard Bukowski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Paweł Klecki, Eugeniusz Knapik, Karol Lipiński, Piotr Moss, Aleksander Nowak, Stefan Bolesław Poradowski, Ludomir Różycki and Bolesław Szabelski, among others.
[2025]