dr hab. Adam Banaszak

Music director and conductor of the Warsaw Chamber Opera. He has conducted over five hundred concerts and performances. He has been the music director or collaborated in the preparation of nearly 50 premieres. He is particularly fond of Italian music, from bel canto to verismo: The Barber of Seville, The Elixir of Love, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Nabucco, Don Carlos, Madame Butterfly, La Bohème, Tosca, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci. He eagerly reaches for Mozart's works (The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni). He has conducted a number of performances from the strict opera repertoire (Eugene Onegin, Halka, Faust, Carmen). Ballet performances (Giselle, Don Juan, The Nutcracker) occupy an important place in the conductor's repertoire. He has given the world premieres of operas by Paweł Mykietyn (The Magic Mountain) and Zygmunt Krauze (Yemaya — Queen of the Seas). He has also frequently performed lesser-known works (Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Poulenc's La Voix humaine, Britten's Curlew River and The Burning Fiery Furnace).

He has performed at the Warsaw Autumn and Sacrum Profanum festivals. He has conducted philharmonic concerts in Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Jelenia Góra, Kalisz, Koszalin, Łódź, Opole, Płock, Poznań, Szczecin, Wałbrzych, and Zamość. He has given concerts with the Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra and recorded with the Polish Radio Orchestra and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra. His performances and concerts have been broadcast and rebroadcast on radio and television (TVP Kultura, TVP Polonia, Drugi Program Telewizji Polskiej, Drugi Program Polskiego Radia, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, and others).

He is the first guest conductor of the Toruń Symphony Orchestra and a lecturer at the Vocal Department of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, with a postdoctoral degree. Previously, he was the artistic director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź and the music director of the Musical Theatre in Poznań. He has also conducted performances at the Baltic Opera, the Krakow Opera, the Silesian Opera in Bytom, and the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok.