Slovak conductor Adam Sedlický, born in 1991, 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 the 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 teaches as assistant professor.

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

He 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, South Czech Philharmonic and North Czech Philharmonic. 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.

Alongside his orchestral work, Sedlický was conductor and artistic director of the Academic Choir of the Technical University of Ostrava from 2015 to 2023. Under his leadership the ensemble became one of the foremost chamber choirs in the Czech Republic, winning numerous prizes at international competitions, including first prize in Vilnius (2015), absolute winner in Jihlava (2016) and Academic Banská Bystrica (2017), the Grand Prix at Voce Magna Žilina (2018), second prize for folksong at Spittal an der Drau (2019), absolute winner at Choralia Prague (2022), and third prize in Marktoberdorf (2022). He has also received multiple conductor’s prizes at international choral competitions.

Sedlický is the recipient of the Czech Republic’s Choirmaster-Junior Award (2018) and was a finalist in the Romano Gandolfi International Competition for Choral Conductors in Parma (2019). Since 2020 he has been a regular guest choirmaster with the Slovak Philharmonic Choir.