Anna Sułkowska-Migoń

Born in Kraków, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń won first prize at the La Maestra conducting competition in Paris in March 2022. Since then she has appeared regularly with all the major Polish orchestras, and will make further debuts in North America and Europe in the coming seasons. In 2023, she was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Conducting Academy.

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. During 2024/25 season she made her fantastic debuts with the National Arts Centre, Ottawa and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec in Canada, the Ulster Orchestra and her full operatic debut at the Bern Opera House, where she conducted 12 performances of a new production of Eugene Onegin.

Upcoming highlights in the 2025/26 season include her two orchestras tour: in Japan with the Warsaw Philharmonic and in France with the Orchestre National de Lille. She will also return to North America to make her debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra, the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. A regular with the top orchestras in Poland, she returns to the NFM Wrocław, NOSPR in Katowice and she will make her debut with the Szczecin Philharmonic. She will return to France later in the season to conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice and will make further debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland in Dublin, and return to the Ulster Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Other recent highlights include debuts with the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Leopoldinum Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra. 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 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.

Photo: Anna Sułkowska-Migoń @Piotr Banasik