Adam Wesołowski
Composer, music theorist, conductor and cultural manager. He has received numerous international awards for his artistic achievements, including the Bronze Medal ‘Meritorious for Culture Gloria Artis’ bestowed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2020. Adam Wesołowski is a laureate of the Silesian Voivodeship Marshal’s Award for his contributions to the dissemination and preservation of cultural heritage. He has also won several composition competitions, including the prestigious International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition and the Adam Didur National Composition Competition (twice).
In 2004, he graduated with distinction from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he studied composition under the guidance of Edward Bogusławski and Aleksander Lasoń, and piano under Wojciech Świtała. He also completed his studies in music theory two years later. Adam Wesołowski is the director of the International Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki Festival, one of the largest music festivals in Poland. He previously held the position of deputy director at the Sinfonietta Cracovia - Orchestra of the Royal Capital City of Kraków from 2014 to 2018. Prior to that, he served as the manager of the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy - AUKSO from 2009 to 2014.
He is also a member of the Union of Polish Composers. Adam Wesołowski has composed more than 60 works and created more than 100 musical arrangements. His compositions have been performed both in Poland and abroad at numerous concerts and festivals, including the Pablo Casalsa Festival (France), A. Dvořák Festival (Czech Republic), Unterm Radar (Germany), the European Festival of Jan Kiepura, Crazy Days of Music - La Folle Journée de Varsovie, Odessa Days International Festival (Ukraine), 'Emanations' Festival at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Centre, Silesian Composers' Tribune, Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, the Adam Didur Festival, and New Music Festival.
His music has resonated in prestigious concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Wiener Konzerthaus, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Grand Theatre of the National Opera in Warsaw, and ICE Kraków. It can also be heard at numerous seasonal concerts featuring such renowned bands as the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, Kammersymphonie Berlin, The U.S. Army Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, the Sinfonietta Cracovia - Orchestra of the Royal Capital City of Kraków, the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy - AUKSO, Tanzformation and Wiener Opernball Orchester, National Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, German Brass, Viener Kammersymphonie, Morphing Chamber Orchestra Vienna, and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Gdańsk, Sopot, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Białystok, Kraków, Zielona Góra, Łomża, Elbląg, Warsaw, Zamość, Zabrze, Ostrava and Kaunas.
Adam Wesołowski’s works are performed by exceptional soloists and conductors, including Andriy Yurkevych, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Steven Mead, José Maria Florêncio, Hobart Earle, Yaroslav Shemet, Massimiliano Caldi, Marek Moś, Valeriy Sokolov, Robert Benton, Alexander Humala, Uwe Theimer, Łukasz Długosz, Hubert Zapiór, Marek Torzewski, Andrzej Lampert, Grażyna Brodzińska, Jurek Dybał, Piotr Sałajczyk, Justyna Steczkowska, Marcin Wyrostek, Krzysztof Cugowski, Marek Toporowski, Natalia Rubiś, Katarzyna Moś, Kasia Kowalska, Anna Rusowicz and more.
Adam Wesołowski is also credited as the author of bugle calls for the towns of Radzionków and Świętochłowice.
He has recorded numerous CDs, and his works have been featured on Polish Radio, Deutsche Radio Kultur, and Polish Television.