Piotr Staniszewski

Biography

Polish conductor Piotr Staniszewski makes his National Theatre Opera debut in the 2023/24 season (Nabucco, the State opera new production). He studied violin at the Academy of Music in Gdaňsk and conducting at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He is a prize-winner of many major violin and chamber music competitions. In the 2011/2012 season he started working as an assistant conductor at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw. He has cooperated there with Andriy Yurkevich, Stefan Soltesz and Gabriel Chmura and conducted operas Die Zauberflöte, Nabucco, Madama Butterfly, Il Turco in Italia and ballets The Taming of the Shrew, Fredriana (world premiere) and Swan Lake. In 2019 he made a tour with Polish National Ballet in Canada conducting Swan Lake.