Anna Sułkowska-Migoń

Born in Kraków, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń won first prize at the La Maestra 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 program that included Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 as well as Nowowiejski’s lesser-known Overture to The Legend of the Baltic. Sułkowska-Migoń is a champion of Polish composers and conducted the 25th anniversary of 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 2024–2025 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 debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and the Orchestre symphonique de Québec. A regular with the top orchestras in Poland, she returns to the National Philharmonic in Warsaw and 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, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, and the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, and make further debuts with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, the Ulster Orchestra, and return to the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. 

Other recent highlights include debuts with the DSO Berlin, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre de Genève, the Kraków Philharmonic 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, Andrè Schuen, Leila Josefowicz, and Josef Špaček.

Sułkowska-Migoń received the 2022–2024 Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship and attended the Ravinia Festival in August 2022 as part of the Taki Alsop masterclasses with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She was also selected as one of four conductors to participate in the Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors program in the 2022–2023 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 master’s 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.