In January 2024 she made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in their subscription series to critical acclaim, with a programme that included Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 as well as Nowowiejski’s less well-known Overture to the “Legend of the Baltic”. Sułkowska-Migoń is a champion of Polish composers, and conducted the 25th anniversary Penderecki’s “Credo” at the Oregon Bach Festival in July 2023, as well as a special concert of Weinberg and Sikora to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 2023.
Upcoming highlights in the 2024/25 season include her full operatic debut at the Bern Opera House, where she conducts 12 performances of a new production of Eugene Onegin. She will also return to North America to make her debuts with the National Arts Centre, Ottawa and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. A regular with the top orchestras in Poland, she returns to the Warsaw Philharmonic, and will also return to the NFM Wrocław as part of the annual Wratislavia Cantans Festival. She will return to Switzerland later in the season to conduct the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, and will make further debuts with the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, the Ulster Orchestra, and return to the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Other recent highlights include debuts with the DSO Berlin, NOSPR Katowice, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Dresden Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Kraków Philharmonic, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. She appeared twice at the prestigious Palau de la Música Catalana in 2023, firstly with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Vallés, and as part of a tour with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana that also included performances in Valencia and Castellón. Sułkowska-Migoń regularly works with renowned soloists including James Ehnes, Pacho Flores, Isata Kanneh-Mason, André Schuen, Leila Josefowicz and Josef Špaček.
She is the recipient of the 2022-2024 Taki Alsop Conducting Award, and attended Ravinia Festival in August 2022 as part of the Taki Alsop masterclasses with the Chicago Symphony. She was also selected as one of four conductors to participate in the Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors Program in the 22/23 season. She has previously collaborated with conductors such as Marin Alsop, François Xavier-Roth, Klaus Mäkelä, Stéphane Denève, Kirill Karabits, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Piotr Sułkowski and Antoni Wit. As an instrumentalist, she completed her MA studies, specializing in viola, at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. She then completed her masters at The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków specializing in symphonic and choral conducting. She attended the 2023 Gstaad Conducting Academy in August, and was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize by a jury including Jaap van Zweden, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, and Johannes Schlaefli.
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