Piotr Gajewski, 49, a political newcomer, was elected as a Rockville councilmember in November 2007, with the largest vote total of the election.  Councilmember Gajewski is passionate about his new role as a public servant and has made constituent service a high priority.  In February 2008 Gajewski sponsored a first of its kind Townhall Meeting, providing a unique citizen forum for an in depth exchange on issues; he will hold such meetings quarterly.

Gajewski’s other priorities include:

In his professional life, Piotr Gajewski is Music Director & Conductor of the National Philharmonic, in residence at the Music Center at Strathmore.  Praised by the Washington Post as an "immensely talented and insightful conductor," whose "standards, taste and sensitivity are impeccable," Maestro Gajewski is also much in demand nationally and internationally as a guest conductor. In recent years, he has appeared with most of the major orchestras in his native Poland, as well as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in England, the Karlovy Vary Symphony in the Czech Republic, the Okanagan Symphony in Canada and numerous orchestras in the United States.

Gajewski is a winner of many prizes and awards, among them a prize at New York's prestigious Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition, Montgomery County's Comcast Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Achievement Award, and a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship at the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts, where Gajewski studied with Bernstein as well as other prominent conductors, including Siji Ozawa and Andre Previn.

Piotr Gajewski holds BM and MM degrees from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and a JD degree from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.

He resides in King Farm with his wife Tisha, son Devin - a student at Richard Montgomery High School - and young daughter Charlie.  His daughter Michelle, a graduate of RMHS, is a student at Carleton College.