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 20^th and at Teatro Gaztambide de Tudela on March 21^st.

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Maestro Antoni Wit returns to the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra  to lead special concerts with Beethoven’s Symphony No 9. Their performances on December 14^th and 15^th 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 .

For more information see: HERE  and HERE

On 31^st of October at the Bulgaria Hall in Sofia Antoni Wit  conducts the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-orchestral programme devoted to 20^th 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.

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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.

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Antoni Wit  returns to the Lisinski Hall  in Zagreb to conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No 6 with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra   on 16^th 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.

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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.

For more details see  HERE and HERE

Antoni Wit  returns to Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival  in its 43^rd 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 13^th and 16^th in the programme featuring Brahms Academic Overture and Dvorak’s Symphony No 7. On August 20^th he will lead the Festival main choral concert with Dvořák’s magnificent Stabat Mater op. 58.

For more information see HERE.

Polish conductor Antoni Wit  returns to the Norrkoping Symphony to lead the orchestra in Lutosławski’s masterpiece Concerto for Orchestra at their concert at Geerhallen on March 18^th 2023. The renowned Swedish-Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid will perform Tchaikovsky The Variations on a Rococo Theme in A major, Opus 33 inspired by Mozart whose Symphony No 38 ‘Prague” opens the concert.

For more details, see HERE and HERE.