In February 2023 Maestro Antoni Wit travels to Tallinn to lead the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Wagner, Elgar and Lutosławski. He will be joined by the award-winning young generation Estonian soloist Marcel Kits performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto. The concert will take place at Estonia Concert Hall on February the 3rd. For more details, click HERE
In his first appearance abroad this season, Maestro Antoni Wit conducts the Dortmunder Philharmoniker at the Konzerthaus Dortmundon 10th of October this year. Together with an exceptional soloist Jasminka Stancul they will open the “Wiener Klassik” series with two Mendelssohn’s Piano Concertos. Schubert’s Symphony No 5 will follow and conclude the concert programme.
Following the pandemic pause, Antoni Wit participates in the 42ndKusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival in August 2022. Mo Wit conducts Bruckner’s Symphony No 2 with the Gunma Symphony Orchestra on August 16th in Takasaki and on August 17th in Kusatsu. He also leads the Festival’s choral concert on August 21st featuring Requiem by Saint-Saëns.
Following the pandemic pause, Antoni Wit returns to the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct Bruckner Symphony No 6. He is joined by the renowned Japanese soloists Yu Kosuge, Kentaro Ifuku, Takeshi Kubota and Joel Biedrzycki in the exhilarating Bartók’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion opening the programme. Their two performances take place on June 10th & 11th at Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Concert Hall in Nagoya. For more details see HERE
Antoni Wit conducts Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire on tour of four concerts with the renowned French soprano Véronique Gens singing Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été. The performances taking place on March 13th & 15th in Angers and March 16th & 17th in Nantes will also feature Satie/Debussy Gymnopédie I & III and Brahms final Symphony No 4.
Antoni Wit conducts Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in his much-awaited debut with the Orchestra di Padova a del Veneto on 17th of February 2022. The fast-rising Italian pianist Filippo Gorini will open the concert at Teatro Verdi in Padua playing the monumental Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83. Freischutz Overture by Carl Maria von Weber will follow the symphony and conclude the programme.
Antoni Wit starts the new season with the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra conducting two concerts on October 15th & 16th. Maestro Wit joins forces with the acclaimed Macedonian pianist Marija Gjoshevska opening the programme with spectacular pianism in the quintessentially romantic Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. Max Reger’s equilibrium-searching Mozart Variations and Fuge op 132 on a theme from Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A major composed in 1914 will conclude the programme. For more details see HERE
Antoni Wit makes his debut with the Norrkopings Symphony Orchestra in a live-streamed concert on 25th of March as part of the Orchestra’s digital platform concert series. Mo Wit will conduct two works by two Polish music giants of the 20th century – Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutosławski – linked to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 performed by acclaimed Swedish pianist Roland Pöntinen at De Geerhallen, Norrköping.
Both Strauss and Karłowicz are among the composers Antoni Wit recorded extensively on Naxos Records to high critical acclaim. For more insight explore: Antoni Wit on Naxos
Together with two young exceptional guests artists Tobias Feldmann and Maximilian Hornung he will open the concerts with the Brahms Double Concerto for violin and cello which will be followed by Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliette Overture will conclude the programmes titled Ein Tropfen Liebe.
Last year Naxos Records released Antoni Wit’s latest recording featuring Brahms Concerti with young excellent soloists violinist Tianwa Yang and cellist Gabriel Schwabe with the Deutsches Symfonie-Orchester Berlin, which received high critical acclaim.
