Włodzimierz Siedlik graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow (diploma with the highest distinction), the Liturgical Institute of the Papal Academy of Theology in Krakow (diploma with distinction) as well as the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (diploma with distinction). From 1990 to 1992 he was a laureate of the Polish Competition Choirmasters in Poznań and the director of the Paderewski Centre in Tarnów. In 1991 he established the Chamber Orchestra in Tarnów and was a director of the Association of State Music Schools in Tarnów from 1992 to 1996. Since 1994 he has worked as a lecturer at the Liturgical Institute of the Papal Academy of Theology in Krakow. As a choral conductor with choirs such as Cantus, Psalmodia, Jagiellonian’s University Masculine Choir, he has won Polish and foreign awards; in 2001, for instance, he was awarded the Jerzy Kurczewski Prize for outstanding achievements in choral music under the honorary patronage of Krzysztof Penderecki. Since 1995 he has been the Director and Artistic Manager of the Polish Radio Choir.