Wojciech Milewski

Recently recognized as one of Charleston’s “40 Under 40” by the Charleston Regional Business Journal, conductor Wojciech Milewski is a winner of the 2025 & 2023 American Prizes in Conducting, the 2019 HSO Harold Farberman Prize, and a finalist of the 2019 Los Angeles Conducting Competition. The 2025-26 season includes his debut with the Long Bay Symphony, and continued performances with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Opera Theater, Summerville Orchestra, and College of Charleston Opera. He has recently music directed productions and concerts featuring many of today’s leading artists, including Ginger Costa-Jackson, Michael Chioldi, and Jasmine Habersham.

 

Maestro Milewski is in his sixth season as Music Director of Charleston Opera Theater, leading sold-out performances of La Bohème (Nov. 2024) and Carmen (Nov. 2025) and will be on the podium for Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Mar. 2026). In 2016, Maestro Milewski served as the Music Director of Joe Illick’s UnShakeable with Santa Fe Opera, then leading several seasons of SFO’s educational tours. He has also appeared as a guest pianist on the National Broadway Tours of Wicked and The Book of Mormon, and appeared as a clarinetist during Spazio Musica’s 2014 summer opera season in Orvieto, IT. This performance experience has helped shape his collaborative identity as a “musicians’ /singers’ conductor.”

 

In his tenth season as Music Director of the Summerville Orchestra, Maestro Milewski has led the organization through major artistic and operational growth, recognized nationally with the 2023 American Prize in Orchestral Performance and 2nd Prize for Innovative Programming (Vytautas Marijosius Award, 2025 & 2023). Under his leadership, the orchestra has launched multiple community outreach initiatives and a youth orchestra program, commissioned new works by Rene Orth, Kenyon Wilson, and Chris Pilsner, and received honorary patronage from the Polish Embassy for its May 2024 presentation of Mieczysław Karłowicz’s Eternal Songs.