He completed conductor studies at the State Higher Music School in Warsaw, symphonic-opera conductorship class of prof. Bogusław Madey. While still a student he was engaged by the Grand Theatre in Łódź, where he went through all stages of the conductor’s carrier (assistant conductor, conductor, vocal manager, conductor - manager of the orchestra) and in the years 1981-87 he served as an artistic director of that theatre.
He is a doctoral student at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice where he completed studies in the field of composition and music theory and symphonic-opera conductor studies in the class of prof. S. Bywalec.