TADEUSZ PLATEK
He studied at the Jagiellonian University (journalism and European studies), at the Academy of Music in Kraków (music theory) and at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels (conducting). In 2012, he graduated from the Faculty of Symphonic and Opera Conducting at the Academy of Music in Kraków, in the class of Prof. Tadeusz Strugała, and in 2017 he obtained a doctorate in art from that university.
He made his debut in 2009 in London at the Copernicus Festival, organized jointly by the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.
In 2008–2012, he was an assistant at the Kraków Opera, realizing, among others, operas Eugene Onegin, Carmen, La Traviata and Halka, which he conducted as part of his graduation performance. Since 2012, he has been a conductor at the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok. The musical Korczak, produced under his musical direction, won the Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Award for the best performance of 2012, was awarded the Medal of the Children's Rights Advocate and received the title of Historical Event of the Year, awarded by the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. Tadeusz Płatek is the author of the source version of the opera "Halka", based on the first editions and manuscripts by Stanisław Moniuszko. He has collaborated with many symphony orchestras, including the Koszalin Philharmonic, the Podlasie Philharmonic, the Kraków Philharmonic and the Poznań Philharmonic, as well as the Polish-Israeli Festival Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra or Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theatre In Russia. He has conducted several hundred opera and musical performances (including the musical The Phantom of the Opera) and symphony concerts. Since March 2014, he has been the head of the Krakow Branch of the Maciej Pawłowski Authorial School of Music, operating under the honorary patronage of the ROMA Musical Theatre in Warsaw. With the ASM ensemble, he prepared the Krakow premieres of the musicals Grease, Dance of the Vampires, Cats and The Wizard of OZ, as well as Mr. Kleks' Academy and Maciej Pawłowski's ballet Lamaila at the Grand Theatre and Opera in Łódź. In 2018, he was a lecturer at the Karol Lipiński Academy in Wrocław, where he led opera studies, which resulted in the first ever performance of the farce "New Don Quixote" by Stanisław Moniuszko. In 2019, he founded the Krakow Musical Academy, with whose team he prepared premieres of, among others, The Lion King, High School Musical 2, Shrek, Hanka, Frozen and Beauty and the Beast, performed in total over a hundred and fifty times. Since 2014, he has led the Orchestra of the Bronisław Rutkowski Secondary Music School.
Since 2022, he has been a member of the jury of the Wyspiański Scholarship awarded by the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow. For over 20 years, he has written weekly columns for the Krakow daily Gazeta Krakowska.