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Composer, music theorist, conductor and cultural manager. He has been awarded international prizes many times for his artistic activity. Honored in 2020 by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage with the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis. He is a winner of the Award of the Marshal of the Silesian Province for the dissemination and protection of cultural goods and many composition competitions, including: 1st prize at the A. Dvořák International Composition Competition and the Adam Didur National Composition Competition (twice).
He graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the composition class of Edward Bogusławski and Aleksander Lasoń and in the piano class of Wojciech Świtała, obtaining diplomas with honors in 2004. At the same time, he studied music theory, graduating two years later.
Since 2018, he has been the director of the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic. He is also the director of the Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki International Festival, one of the largest music festivals in Poland. In the years 2014-2018 he was deputy director of the Sinfonietta Cracovia Orchestra of the Royal Capital City of Krakow. In the years 2009-2014 he was the manager of the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy.
He is a member of the Polish Composers' Union. He has composed over 60 pieces and made over 100 musical arrangements. They are performed both in Poland and abroad at numerous concerts and festivals: Pablo Casals Festival (France), A. Dvořák Festival (Czech Republic), Unterm Radar (Germany), Jan Kiepura European Festival, Crazy Music Days – La Folle Journée de Varsovie, International Days of Odessa (Ukraine), Emanacje Festival at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Center, Silesian Tribune of Composers, Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia, Adam Didur Festival, New Music Festival.
His music was heard in such unique concert halls as: the Berlin Philharmonic, Wiener Konzerthaus, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Grand Theater - National Opera in Warsaw, ICE Krakow. It can also be heard at dozens of concerts of seasonal bands, such as: the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, Kammersymphonie Berlin, the US Army Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Sinfonietta Cracovia Orchestra of the Royal City of Krakow, AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, Tanzformation and Wiener Opernball Orchester, Odessa National Philharmonic Orchestra, German Brass, Viener Kammersymphonie, Morphing Chamber Orchestra Vienna and the Philharmonic Orchestras in Gdansk, Sopot, Torun, Bydgoszcz, Bialystok, Krakow, Zielona Gora, Lomza, Elblag, Warsaw, Zamosc, Zabrze, Ostrava and Kaunas.
Adam Wesołowski's works are interpreted by outstanding soloists and conductors, including: Andriy Yurkevych, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Steven Mead, José Maria Florêncio, Hobart Earle, Yaroslav Shemet, Massimiliano Caldi, Marek Moś, Valeriy Sokolov, Robert Benton, Alexander Humala, Uwe Theimer, Łukasz Długosz, Hubert Zapiór, Marek Torzewski, Andrzej Lampert, Grażyna Brodzińska, Jurek Dybał, Piotr Sałajczyk, Justyna Steczkowska, Marcin Wyrostek, Krzysztof Cugowski, Marek Toporowski, Natalia Rubiś, Katarzyna Moś, Kasia Kowalska, Anna Rusowicz and many others.
Adam Wesołowski is the author of bugle calls for the cities of Radzionkow and Swietochlowice.
He has recorded a number of CDs, and his songs have been recorded for Polish Radio, Deutsche Radio Kultur and the Polish Television.
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