Slovak conductor Adam Sedlický (b. 1991), winner of the 3rd Prize at the Zoraqi Conducting Competition in Albania (2025), studied piano and conducting at the Žilina Conservatory and went on to graduate in orchestral conducting from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He continued his education with a semester at the Academy of Music in Krakow and participated in masterclasses with Gabriel Chmura, Colin Metters and Michalis Economou, where he conducted Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Cardiff Sinfonietta and Athens Philharmonia Orchestra. In 2021 he was awarded the Bayreuther Festspiele Scholarship and completed his doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, where he now serves as assistant professor.
In 2014 he began his collaboration with the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava. From 2017 to 2023 he was a permanent conductor at the theatre’s opera house, where he led productions including Dvořák’s Rusalka, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Puccini’s Tosca and Il trittico, Verdi’s La traviata, and Wagner’s Tannhäuser, among others. Since his successful debut at the Slovak National Theatre in 2022, he has returned regularly, conducting productions such as Verdi’s Nabucco, Bizet’s Carmen, Suchoň’s Svätopluk, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
As an orchestral conductor, Adam Sedlický has appeared with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was permanent conductor from 2020 to 2023, as well as with the Brno Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc and others. In 2024 he led a guest tour to the Bonn Theatre with the ballet company of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and the North Czech Philharmonic, performing Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.
From 2012 to 2015 he was Chief Conductor of the Moravian-Silesian Sinfonietta and from 2015 to 2019 of the Žilina State Conservatory Students Orchestra. Since 2022 he has been permanent guest conductor of the Slovak Sinfonietta.
His distinctions include the Czech Republic’s Choirmaster-Junior Award (2018) and a finalist position in the Romano Gandolfi International Competition for Choral Conductors in Parma (2019). As a choral conductor, he has led the Academic Choir of the Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) to numerous international awards, and has been a regular guest choirmaster with the Slovak Philharmonic Choir since 2020.