Slovak conductor Adam Sedlický (b. 1991), winner of the 3rd Prize at the 2025 Zoraqi Conducting Competition in Albania, is one of the most promising conductors of his generation.

He studied piano and conducting at the Žilina Conservatory and later earned a degree in orchestral conducting from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His education also included a semester at the Academy of Music in Krakow and participation in masterclasses with Gabriel Chmura, Colin Metters, and Michalis Economou, conducting ensembles such as the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Cardiff Sinfonietta, and Athens Philharmonia Orchestra. In 2021 he received the Bayreuther Festspiele Scholarship and completed his doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, where he now serves as Assistant Professor.

Adam Sedlický began his collaboration with the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava in 2014 and was engaged to conduct the operetta and musical ensemble during the 2015/16 season. From 2017 to 2023 he was a permanent conductor at the theatre’s opera house, leading acclaimed 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. Since his successful debut at the Slovak National Theatre in 2022, he has returned regularly to conduct operas and ballets such as Verdi’s Nabucco, Bizet’s Carmen, Suchoň’s Svätopluk, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

As an orchestral conductor, Adam Sedlický has appeared with leading ensembles including the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he served as permanent conductor from 2020 to 2023, as well as the Brno Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, South Czech Philharmonic, and North Czech Philharmonic. 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 Adam Sedlický was Chief Conductor of the Moravian-Silesian Sinfonietta and from 2015 to 2019 of the Žilina State Conservatory Student Orchestra. Since 2022 he has been the permanent guest conductor of the Slovak Sinfonietta.

His distinctions include the Czech Republic’s Choirmaster-Junior Award (2018) and finalist recognition at 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 to numerous international awards and has been a regular guest choirmaster with the Slovak Philharmonic Choir since 2020.