Julian Gilewski

He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He began his studies at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of symphonic and opera conducting of Prof. Monika Wolińska. In the 2024/25 artistic season, he is a „Conductor-in-residence” at the Lublin Philharmonic, as part of the National Institute of Music and Dance scholarship. He is currently continuing his master’s studies while being in his diploma year, at his alma mater.

In June 2024, during his diploma concert, he made his debut on the stage of the National Philharmonic conducting the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra. Since the 2023/24 season, he has been associated with the National Opera in Warsaw, where he has been working with Maestro Patrick Fournillier as assistant conductor on such titles as Dracula, Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, Chorus Opera, and Prometheus. In December 2022, he took over the musical direction of the educational project The Tale of the Greybearded Dwarf at the Warsaw Chamber Opera. Additionally, as an assistant, he had the opportunity to work with such conductors as Andrey Boreyko, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Daniel Raiskin.

In March 2023 he won the 1st Prize at the 4th Adam Kopyciński National Competition for Students of Conducting in Wrocław, Poland.

Julian has had the opportunity to conduct various orchestras in Poland and abroad including National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, NFM Orchestra in Wroclaw, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Swietokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestra, Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, Podkarpackie Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

In February 2022, he received a conducting scholarship from the Jerzy Semkow Foundation, and in 2023 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the UMFC Rector’s Scholarship for the best students.