Piotr Borkowski (conductor)

Piotr Borkowski (born 1963 in Warsaw) is a Polish conductor and graduate of the Academy of Music. F. Chopin in Warsaw in the conducting class of prof. Boguslaw Madeya. Curriculum vitae

In 1989, after a diploma concert with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, he received a diploma with honors. In the same year he became an assistant at the Department of Conducting at AMiFC. In 1997 he received his first degree in conducting music. He received his musical education at the Conducting Course in Vienna in 1993 under the direction of Hans Graf, as a Wiener Meisterkurse für Musik scholar and in 1995 at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena in Myung-Whung Chung and Illi Musin, where he received the Diploma di Merito.

In February 1995 he took part in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's assistant conductor competition, where he qualified for the finale and conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In August 1995 he participated in the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in Trento and received the Diploma di Merito.

He has performed with many Polish symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles. He conducts outside the country, among others. Italy, Sweden, USA, South Korea and Ukraine with such orchestras as: Boston Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Sofia Symphony, Dnepropetrovsk Philharmonic, Kosice Janacek Philharmonic and others. He participated in many festivals (Warsaw Autumn 1986 - conducting debut) in Poland and abroad. He has performed many premieres of works by Polish and Korean composers, including the Polish premiere of F. Nowowiejski's Return to the Prodigal Son. He has made many radio recordings (including WOSPR) and recordings (with the Olsztyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music Orchestra, the Suwon University Orchestra and the Korean Chamber Ensemble) for domestic and foreign labels ("Treasury", "Acte Prealable" , SPV GmbH, "Kukje Recording Studio", "DUX", Global Sound Media and "NAXOS".

In 1991-1994 he was the artistic and artistic director, and from 1994 to 1997 he was the artistic director of the State Philharmonic. F. Nowowiejski in Olsztyn. In 1994 he was invited as a welcoming professor of conducting, to Keimyung University in Taegu (South Korea). In the same year, he became the first guest conductor of the Taegu Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he repeatedly toured. at the Korean Orchestra Festival in Seoul. He regularly collaborates with the Pusan ​​Sinfonietta, the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, the New Seoul Philharmonic, the Taegu City Symphony Orchestra, the Korean Symphony, the Bucheon Philharmonic, the Seoul Baroque to the Modern Symphony Orchestra and the Korean Chamber Ensemble. From 1996-2001 he was a professor of conducting at Taegu Hyosung Catholic University, and since 2001 he has been teaching at the University of Suwon where he conducts conducting classes and is a conductor of the academic orchestra. From 2008 to 2011 he was the artistic director of the Kyeongi Festival Orchestra.

In 2011 he returned to Poland to take up his post at the newly established Gorzów Philharmonic. In 2010-2012 he was artistic director of the Center for Artistic Education - Gorzowska Philharmonic [CEA]. He is the founder of the Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra. Bibliography

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