Magdalena Pawlisz

Magdalena Pawlisz is a Polish conductor, a Doctor of Musical Arts and an Executive Master in Art Administration. She is a finalist of I Atlantic Coast International Conducting Competition in Esposende and a semi-finalist of VIII Concorso Internazionale per Direttori d’Opera in Orvieto.

Magdalena Pawlisz’s conducting mentors include Rafał Jacek Delekta, Steven Sloane, Harry Curtis, Jessica Cottis and Colin Metters. During master studies at the University of Arts Berlin she conducted many professional orchestras, such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Brandenburger Symphoniker, as well as orchestra and soloists of the Komische Oper Berlin, Theater Magdeburg, Staatstheater Cottbus. As part of masterclasses and auditions she conducted the orchestra of the Royal Opera House in London, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Castle Opera in Szczecin, Orchestra de Cadaqués, among others.

Magdalena Pawlisz served as an assistant conductor at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (Nixon in China, Die Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold), GöteborgsOperan (Carmen, La bohéme) and at the University of Arts Berlin (Ring ohne Worte). She assisted Steven Sloane, Enrico Calesso, Patrik Ringborg and late Michail Jurowski.

As a guest conductor, she has been performing in Poland, Germany, Italy and Sweden. Most recent engagements include acclaimed concerts with University of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Bronislaw Huberman Częstochowa Philharmonic.

Magdalena Pawlisz was awarded Doctor of Musical Arts degree with distinction from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków. Her doctoral research has led to a discovery of an unknown Mass in C Major (c.1800) by Franciszek Lessel.

Magdalena Pawlisz was granted an Executive Master in Art Administration degree from the Zurich University as a result of a two-year post-graduate programme for cultural leaders of tomorrow. She is currently enrolled in the Contemporary Repertoire Conducting post-diploma degree led by Arturo Tamayo at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana.