Antoni Wit makes debut appearance with Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse on 27th of November at the Halle aux-grains conducting Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony and Wagner’s Prelude to Lohengrin in an exceptional musical evening. As part of a well-established tradition in the Orchestre du Capitole’s season, young musicians from the Toulouse Conservatory join forces with the orchestra for this concert, which concludes a week of academy training under the tutelage of orchestra’s musicians.
Polish distinguished maestro Antoni Wit appears with Saarländisches Staatsorchester in two concerts on May 4th and 5th 2025 at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbruecken. Maestro Wit is joined by the orchestra’s Artist-in-Residence renowned violinist Kirill Troussov in Henryk Wieniawski’s virtuosic Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in D minor. A defiant 20th century classic, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra is the focus of Polish music exploration in the second half of the concert preceded by Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa for strings. Glazunov’s obscure unfinished Symphony No 9 opens the programme. The concert is recorded by SR kultur Radio.
Polish distinguished conductor Maestro Antoni Wit makes a much-awaited return to his former Orquestra Sinfónica de Navarra to conduct a poignant programme of youthful works by Mendelssohn juxtaposed with the sombre Dvořák’s Symphony No 7. Their two concerts will take place at the Auditorium Baluarte in Pamplona on March the 20th and at Teatro Gaztambide de Tudela on March 21st.
Maestro Antoni Wit returns to the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra to lead special concerts with Beethoven’s Symphony No 9. Their performances on December 14th and 15th at Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater will begin with Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No 3. On December 6th & 7th Maestro Wit will also conduct the Schumann & Tchaikovsky programme with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestras’s Concertmaster Satoshi Morioka as soloist in Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor .
On 31st of October at the Bulgaria Hall in Sofia Antoni Wit conducts the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-orchestral programme devoted to 20th century Polish music. The concert features Karłowicz’s Eternal Songs coupled with Kilar’s Kościelec 1909 in memory of Karłowicz’s death under an avalanche in the Tatra mountains. The defiant Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski opens the concert.
Antoni Wit returns to the Lithuanian National Symphony in the orchestra’s Schumann Complete Symphonies cycle to conduct Symphony No 4 in D-minor, Op.120 on May the 3rd this year at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall. The programme opens with Karłowicz’s Lithuanian Rhapsody Op.11, a highly personal symphonic poem which incapsulates the nostalgia of the rich Lithuanian folk musical culture that surrounded the Polish composer in his childhood. Szymanowski’s ecstatic Violin Concerto No 1, Op.35, composed in Ukraine and performed here by the acclaimed Lithuanian violinist Dalia Kuznecovaite, will bridge the late romantic works.
Antoni Wit returns to the Lisinski Hall in Zagreb to conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No 6 with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra on 16th of February. The concert will also include Mozart Symphony No 38 in D major “Prague” and will be held in memory of the renowned Croatian conductor Lovro von Matačić.
Antoni Wit returns to Japan to lead the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra on 19th of December at Suntory Hall. The concert features Krzysztof Penderecki’s Symphony No 2 “Christmas” and Wojciech Kilar’s Prelude & Christmas Carol bridged by the Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor with the International Chopin Piano Competition prize-winner Kyohei Sorita as soloist.
This month marks the release of Antoni Wit’s new recording on Naxos of late works by Krzysztof Penderecki with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra . This new recording is a continuation of a series of releases of the Polish composer’s orchestral works recorded by Antoni Wit to high critical acclaim.
Antoni Wit returns to Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival in its 43rd edition this year themed: Prague and Vienna Two Musical Cities―Mozart, Brahms and Dvořák. Mo Wit will conduct symphonic concerts with the Gunma Symphony Orchestra on August 13th and 16th in the programme featuring Brahms Academic Overture and Dvorak’s Symphony No 7. On August 20th he will lead the Festival main choral concert with Dvořák’s magnificent Stabat Mater op. 58.