Anna Sułkowska-Migoń
Born in Krakow, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń won first prize at the La Maestra conducting competition in Paris (2022). Since then, she has appeared regularly with all the major Polish orchestras, and will make further debuts in North America and Europe in the coming seasons. In 2023, she was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Conducting Academy (with Jaap van Zweden, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Johannes Schlaefli in the jury).
In 2024, she made her critically acclaimed debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in a programme that included among other pieces Feliks Nowowiejski’s Overture to the opera Legenda Bałtyku (Legend of the Baltic). The artist is a champion of Polish composers and conducted Krzysztof Penderecki’s Credo on the occasion of the work’s 25th anniversary at the Oregon Bach Festival (2023), as well as a special concert with music by Mieczysław Weinberg and Elżbieta Sikora to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 2023.
Highlights in the 2024/2025 season include her full operatic debut at the Stadttheater Bern, as well as concerts at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the Orchestre symphonique de Québec. A regular with the top orchestras in Poland, she returns to the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and to the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic as part of the annual Wratislavia Cantans International Festival. She will also return to Berner Symphonieorchester, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra. She regularly works with renowned soloists including James Ehnes, Pacho Flores, Isata Kanneh-Mason, André Schuen and Josef Špaček.
Anna Sułkowska-Migoń is the recipient of the 2022–2024 Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship; as part of the Taki Alsop masterclasses, she participated in the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2022). In the 2022/2023 season, she was selected as one of four conductors to participate in the Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors programme. She has previously collaborated with conductors such as Marin Alsop, François Xavier-Roth, Klaus Mäkelä, Stéphane Denève, Kirill Karabits, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Piotr Sułkowski and Antoni Wit.
Anna Sułkowska-Migoń graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (viola class) and the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow (symphonic and choral conducting).
[2025]