Piotr Borkowski is the Artistic and Managing Director of the Feliks Nowowiejski State Philharmonic Orchestra in Olsztyn, Poland. He is also the First Guest Conductor of the Taegu Philharmonic Orchestra and Visiting Professor of Conducting at the Keimyung University in Taegu, South Korea. In 1989 Maestro Borkowski was appointed Assistant Professor of Conducting at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. He is a graduate of Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw where he conducted the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra to earn his Diploma with Honors. Notable teachers of Maestro Borkowski include Hans Graf in Vienna, Austria and Chung Myung-Whun and Ilia Musin in Sienna, Italy. Maestro Borkowski has led many premieres of works by Polish composers, including the Polish premiere of the oratorio Return of the Prodighal Son by Feliks Nowowiejski. He has also recorded for Polish Radio and Television and for the French recording company, Skarbo.