Maestro Antoni Wit conducts all-French programme on his first return this year to the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra. In two concerts on 26 & 27 March at Auditorio Baluarte in Pamplona, Antoni Wit will present orchestral works of 20th century masters from Ravel through Debussy and Faure to Albert Roussel.
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Antoni Wit conducts two concerts with the Prague Symphony Orchestra at the Prague’s Municipal House on 15 & 16 January. Mo Wit’s Czech-Polish programme at Smetana Hall will open with Vítězslav Novák’s symphonic poem In the Tatra Mountains and conclude with Witold Lutoslawski’s defiant Concerto for Orchestra. The two works will be suitably bridged by Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 performed by the renowned Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček.
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Following highly successful collaboration last season, Antoni Wit returns to the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct all-Polish programme of Moniuszko, Szymanowski, Karlowicz and Kilar at the Bulgaria Concert Hall in Sofia on 9 January 2020. The National Philharmonic Choir of Sofia and three Polish vocal soloists: Iwona Hossa soprano, Ewa Marciniec alto and Jarosław Bręk bass baritone will join the Orchestra in the Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater. For more information see HERE
Mo Antoni Wit returns to the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in all-Mahler programme featuring Symphony No 1 in two concerts on 13th & 14th of December. For the first part of the programme he will be joined by the renowned Austrian baritone Markus Werba performing a selection of songs from the cycles Des knaben Wunderhorn and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, whose CD recording of this repertoire was released on Nomad label earlier this year.
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Maestro Antoni Wit returns to the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire next month to conduct Sibelius Symphony No 1 in six concerts during the Orchestra’s regional tour in Angers, Cholet and Nantes. The programme will also feature Saint Saens Piano Concerto no 2 with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist on November 17th, 19th, 20th and 21st and with Daniel Kharitonov performing it on November 14th and 16th.
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Jakub Chrenowicz makes his debut at the Konzerthaus Berlin on 19 July leading superb Polish orchestra founded by Jerzy Semkow Sinfonia Iuventus. The concert presented as part of the annual series the Young Euro Classic 2019 Series will feature an exhilarating programme of Beethoven Symphony No 6 “Pastorale“ and No 5 interspersed by Artur Malawski’s Toccata für kleines Orchester (1947). For more information click here: https://www.konzerthaus.de/de/programm/polska-orkiestra-sinfonia-iuventus/4592
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One of the most talented and sought-after emerging Polish conductors, Jakub Chrenowicz has successfully worked with all the key orchestras in Poland including Warsaw Philharmonic, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Sinfonia Varsovia, Poznań Philharmonic as well as the Polish National Opera. Former conducting student of Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and assistant conductor to Antoni Wit at the Warsaw Philharmonic, he made conducting debuts in Europe with the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin and the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Since the 2017/18 season Jakub Chrenowicz holds the position of Chief Conductor of the Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland.
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Jakub Chrenowicz rehearses with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra February 2019/ © Filharmonia Narodowa
Antoni Wit conducts two concerts with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra on 19th and 20th of September at the Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana in the programme featuring Rachmaninov, Chopin Piano Concerto and a contemporary work by the Slovenian native composer Alojz Ajdic celebrating his 80th birthday. Maestro Wit will then travel to Skopje where he will open Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra’s new season with the performance of Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra on 26th of September at the Macedonian Philharmonic Hall. Antoni Wit will be joined for the programme by the acclaimed Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1.
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Maestro ANTONI WIT conducts the Belarusian National Symphony Orchestra in MINSK on 23 May and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra on 14 June in VILNIUS to mark the MONIUSZKO YEAR. Both concerts are dedicated to Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko’s 200th anniversary of birth.
Closely associated with Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish capitals, the 19th-century composer Moniuszko was born in Belarus and spent his childhood and formative years in Minsk before moving on to work and live in Vilnius where he wrote his most significant works, and later on to Warsaw as principal conductor of the Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera. This year’s Vilnius Festival symbolically presents Moniuszko’s Four Litanies of Ostra Brama, the work dedicated to Vilnius, under the domes of St. Johns’ Church, where the composer served as an organist between 1840 –1842.
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In his final concerts this season with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra, Maestro Antoni Wit leads two performances of Schubert’s magnificent Symphony No 9 “The Great”at Auditorio Baluarte on 9th and 10th of May. In teh first half of the programme, Maestro Wit will be joined by French pianist François-Frédéric Guy in Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 preceded by rarely performed Carl Maria von Weber’s Peter Schmoll Overture.
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