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Artistic Director
alewis@rwb.org |
Music Director and Conductor |
Associate Music Director/
Principal Pianist |
Ballet Master |
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Tadeusz Biernacki holds the position of Music Director and Conductor of Saskatoon Opera, Associate Music Director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet as well as Assistant Music Director, Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master of Manitoba Opera. Tadeusz was born in Czestochowa, Poland where he began his music education at the early age of four. He won the Karol Szymanowski competition in Warsaw in 1976 and earned his Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Conservatory of Music in Katowice in 1978. He has performed as a soloist in many European countries. Tadeusz settled in Canada in 1978 and continued his studies with Professor Marek Jablonski at the University of Manitoba and Banff School of Fine Arts.
As a winner of the 1980 Young Artist’s Competition he has toured Canada extensively in solo and chamber music recitals. In 1983 he began his association with the Manitoba Opera and in 1988 with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He made his conducting debut with Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in 1992, in 1995 he conducted “The Abduction from Seraglio” for Manitoba Opera and has since conducted Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Music Baroque Ensemble, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (USA), Tessaloniki State Orchestra (Greece), Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Royal Winnipeg Ballet Orchestra.
Since 2001 he has been collaborating with Saskatoon Opera as Music Director and Conductor. Tadeusz has also branched out into composition with his one act opera “Happy Campers” composed for the Manitoba Opera School Tour in 1997, and numerous symphonic arrangements and orchestrations made for RWB, WSO, MO, SO, “Queen’s gala” with TSO, “Queen’s visit” with WSO, Governor General Awards with NAC, Ann Mortifee and others. His latest project “Charlies Kreuzfahrt”, a full-length ballet commissioned for Stadtische Theater Chemnitz (Germany) received its world premiere on March 15 2005. Feeling equally at home with choral music he has been Music Director of Sokol Polish Folk Ensemble since 1980. Under his leadership the ensemble has made several recordings and has been touring in Canada and abroad. Tadeusz maintains a busy schedule as pianist in solo and chamber recitals as well as an accompanist for many opera singers.
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