Antoni Wit will celebrate his 70th birthday conducting two special concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic.

The first concert to take place at Warsaw Philharmonic hall on 7th February will be a Beethoven Gala –  with Jean Efflam-Bavouzet performing Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2 and 4.   Then, on 8th February, the orchestra will celebrate a ‘Symphony Gala’ with Wit leading the orchestra in a glorious programme of some of his favourite works including Szymanowski Stabat Mater and Strauss  Alpine Symphony. It promises to be a very memorable event. More information on the concerts can be found here.

Antoni Wit will return to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome to conduct three concerts on November 23, 25 and 26. He will take over at short notice from the indisposed Claudio Abbado conducting All –Beethoven programme that will include Symphony No 7, Choral Fantasy and Leonora III Overture.

Antoni Wit is the new Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra Pablo Sarasate for the next three seasons. He previously occupied the position of the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor since season 2010/11. Maestro Wit’s first project in his new role will be a performance of Verdi’s Requiem on 31st October in the Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos in Pamplona.  More details about the concert can be found here www.orquestadenavarra.es

Maestro Wit will be back to conduct a series of concerts in Pamplona throughout the season with programmes to include Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, Beethoven’s  Symphony No.5, Schubert’s Symphony No.5  and Mozart’s Requiem.

Fresh from his triumphant debut at the BBC Proms in London last month, Antoni Wit is headed to Berlin to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra this week. He will be conducting three performances of Penderecki’s St Luke’s Passion on 19, 20 and 21 September at the Berlin Philharmonie to mark the Polish composer’s 80th Birthday season.

Antoni Wit will return to London with the Warsaw Philharmonic this summer for a performance at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. The concert will take place on 23 August and will feature music by Panufnik and Lutoslawski alongside Shostakovich. The BBC Proms performance will mark Maestro Wit’s 10 year tenure as the Warsaw Philharmonic’s Music Director before he steps down at the end of season 12/13.

With 2013 marking the centenary of Witold Lutosławski’s birth, conductor Antoni Wit leads concerts featuring his works in seven cities across Europe. The inaugural concert of the Year in Warsaw with Wit conducting the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist commences the celebrations in the composer’s home town on 25 January 2013. It will be followed throughout the year by Wit’s concert appearances in Helsinki, Stuttgart, Porto, Parma, Zagreb and London.