Photo: Mariusz Wideryński; promotional materials of the artist
The son of composer and conductor Władysław Słowiński. Between 1971-1976, he studied piano in the class of Jan Ekier at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw. He continued his education from 1976 to 1977 as a Kościuszko Foundation scholar at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington under the guidance of György Sebök. From 1980-1982, he studied conducting with Volker Wangenheim at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne.
As a pianist, he debuted on September 21, 1973, performing Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor with the Łódź Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the artist's grandfather – conductor Zdzisław Górzyński. He performed in Poland, France, Yugoslavia, and Germany.
From the early 1980s, he worked in German opera houses, including in Dortmund, Ulm, Regensburg, and Trier, and appeared as a guest performer in theaters in Hanover, Brunswick, Kaiserslautern, Mannheim, and Berlin.
In the 1999/2000 season, he held the position of Music Director at the Grand Theatre in Poznań, where he staged, among others, Richard Wagner's Parsifal, Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird. From 2000 to 2003, he served as Artistic Director of the Baltic State Opera in Gdańsk – where he prepared performances such as Madama Butterfly, Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa Miller, Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and others. Between 2004-2006, he was the principal conductor of the Altenburg-Gera theater in Germany, where he staged Mozart's The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, Verdi's La Traviata, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri. In 2009, he collaborated again with the Grand Theatre Opera in Poznań.
The conductor's extensive repertoire includes over 60 operas (in addition to those mentioned, also works by Claudio Monteverdi, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioacchino Rossini, Bedřich Smetana, Modest Mussorgsky, Stanisław Moniuszko, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Leoš Janáček, and many others), as well as symphonic works. He has collaborated with orchestras including Sinfonia Varsovia, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), the Polish Radio Orchestra, Sinfonia Iuventus, the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra, and with artists such as Ivan Monighetti, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Alvaro Pierri, Jonas Kaufmann, Adam Makowicz, and The Rascher Quartett. He is a regular guest conductor at the Polish Composers' Union Festival "Warsaw Music Encounters."
He has made numerous archival recordings for Polish Radio, Radio France, and Radio Belgrade. His credits include recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major and Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat major with the Polish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk, released on CD by Polskie Nagrania. In 2012, DUX record label released Krzysztof Słowiński's album with flutist Łukasz Długosz and the Chamber Orchestra of the National Philharmonic (Słowiński. Laks. Pstrokońska-Nawratil, DUX 0737).