Our conductor

Tomasz Piątek is a conductor and a graduate in choral conducting of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, where he studied with Prof. Jan Jazownik and Dr Andrzej Korzeniowski. He developed his conducting skills at courses and seminars led by distinguished teachers, including Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Elżbieta Wtorkowska and Marek Gandecki. He has worked with a number of choirs, among them the choir of the Department of Choral Studies at the Academy of Music in Kraków.

Since 2019 he has conducted the Veritas Choir of Nowosielce, winning major successes with it at national and international competitions. In 2023 the choir recorded an album to mark its twentieth anniversary.

Besides conducting, Tomasz Piątek composes and arranges. He writes for the orchestra and the Creator choir, founded in 2018 at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Przeworsk, one of the few places with a replica of the Tomb of Christ in Jerusalem. He has written many pieces of sacred and popular music.

Since 2023 he has also conducted the chamber orchestra of the Dzieduszycki Palace in Zarzecze. His main interests as a conductor are popular music, folk music and sung poetry.