Hermanowicz, Łukasz International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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He studied choral conducting at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz under Janusz Stanecki (MMus Hons degree) as well as orchestra and opera conducting under Wojciech Michniewski (undergraduate programme) and Elżbieta Wiesztordt (graduate programme). He won the 3rd Prize in the 15th Choral Conductors’ Competition in Poznań in 2014 and reached the finals of the Juozas Naujalis International Competition for Choral Conductors in Vilnius in 2017.

He developed his skills during workshops conducted by Gary Graden (USA/Sweden), Fernando Gil Estrada (Ecuador), Jacek Sykulski (Poland), Philip Lawson (UK), Robert Sund (Sweden), and Tatyana Malysheva (Russia).

From 2009 to 2017 he was a member of the vocal quartet Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz, specialising in Renaissance music. Together with the ensemble, he gave nearly 200 concerts in Poland and internationally, and has released seven albums. Between 2014 and 2017 he worked as a lecturer and accompanist at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, co-directed the Chamber Choir of that Academy and the Collegium Medicum Choir of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Bydgoszcz (with Janusz Stanecki).

In 2018–24 he was a choirmaster, and since 2024 – acting director of the choir at the Polish National Opera. He has prepared the choir for24 premieres and more than 400 spectacles, working with leading directors such as Mariusz Treliński, David Pountney, Annilese Miskimmon, Mark Weiss, John Fulljames, Jere Erkkilä, and Barbara Wysocka, as well as renowned conductors such as Patrick Fournillier, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Grzegorz Nowak, Jacek Kaspszyk, Łukasz Borowicz, Michał Klauza, Carlo Montanaro, Lothar Koenigs, Keri Lynn-Wilson, Andriy Yurkevych, and Tim Murray. He has conducted the Choir in performances of The Black Mask, Aida, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Tosca, La Bohème, The Magic Flute,Halka, Cardillac, La forza del destino, Peter Grimes, and Billy Budd, among others. Since 2018 he has also been the choirmaster of the Media Choir, with which he has recorded two albums for the Romuald Traugutt Philharmonic. In 2022–24 he was the artistic director of the Wacław Lachman Male Choir of the Harfa Singing Society in Warsaw.

As a symphonic concert conductor, he has led orchestras such as Capella Bydgostiensis, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Olsztyn Philharmonic, Zielona Góra Philharmonic, Polish Philharmonic Sinfonia Baltica, Johann Strauss Orchestra in Bydgoszcz, Gdynia Symphony Orchestra, and numerous orchestras assembled for specific projects. He has recorded works by Zbigniew Bargielski in cooperation with the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (a DUX label commission).