Antoni Wit returns to Japan to make his debut with the TMSO on 6th of September at the prestigious Suntory Hall. In this first concert of the season, Maestro Wit will conduct Lutosławski’s Symphony No 3 preceded by Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 performed by the International Chopin Piano Competition prize-winner, Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin. The programme, which will open with the rarely heard Wagner’s Polonia Overture, is a fitting tribute in Poland’s 100th Year of Independence.
Maestro Wit will close his 8th season as Music Director of the Orquesta Pablo Sarasate conducting a mighty programme of Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem preceded by Strauss Metamorphosen in three concerts on May 31st , June 1st and 2nd. Antoni Wit recorded both works on Naxos . His Strauss disc with Weimar Staatskapelle was released in 2009 while Brahms’ A German Requiem was recorded with the Warsaw Philharmonic and released in 2014.
On his third visit to the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Maestro Wit conducts all- French symphonic programme of Faure, Debussy, Ravel and Roussel in a performance at Zagreb’s Lisinski Concert Hall on 11th of May. Find more details here.
Antoni Wit will then undertake another trip to Daegu in Korea to lead the final concert of the 4th Asia Pacific International Chopin Competition there on 18th of May. Chopin Competition in Daegu
Maestro Antoni Wit returns to conduct Orquesta de Navarra in two concerts on April 26th & 27th. The programme features the mighty Titan Symphony by Gustav Mahler preceded by Ignacy Jan Paderewski Piano Concerto performed by a renowned Polish pianist Piotr Paleczny.
Maestro Wit’s first programme with the Orchestra will feature Bruckner Symphony No 3 (1889 version) preceded by Mozart Symphony No 41 Jupiter. The concert will take place on March 16th at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan. For more information please see Website: www.apo.am.
Antoni Wit returns to Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
February 2018
Antoni Wit will conduct his former orchestra in all-Rachmaninov programme on February 23rd and 24th at Warsaw Filharmonia Narodowa. Maestro Wit will be joined on the podium by Russian acclaimed pianist Nikolai Lugansky performing Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 that will precede the composer’s exhilarating Symphonic Dances. More details can be found here.
This week Antoni Wit returns to conduct L’Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya at L’Auditori Barcelona in a programme of Dvořák’s 9th Symphony paired with Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in the 60th anniversary year of its premiere in Moscow. Maestro Wit joins forces with Denis Kozhukin as soloist, combining youth and experience in a fitting manner for music composed by father for son. Concerts take place on the evenings of October 13th and 14th, with a morning performance on October 15th. Click here for more information.
Antoni Wit returns to the helm of the St Petersburg Philharmonic this weekend to conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E major. The concert will also feature Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, with young Russian prize-winner Alexander Ramm as soloist. This exclusive programme will be performed for one night only on 22 October. More information and tickets are available here.
Antoni Wit opens his 9th series with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra
September 21, 2017
Antoni Wit has been Artistic and Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra since 2013 and has met with huge success. His first concert of the season, on September 21st, includes works by Mozart, Beethoven and Pasqual Aldave, a 20th century Spanish composer born in Navarra. The opening work, Aldave’s Nerabe Sorta for string orchestra, was inspired by songs that mothers of the region sang to their children. This is followed by the well-known Toy Symphony by Mozart, then the concluding work: Beethoven’s great 9th Symphony. The first concert will take place at the Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Navarra, with two further concerts on September 22nd and 23rd, the last one in Tudela. For further information, please click here.
Antoni Wit closes the season with Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra and returns to Porto
June 2017
Antoni Wit returns to Pamplona to conduct three concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, of which he is Musical Director, on June 8th, 9th and 10th. The two works included in the programme are the cantata for soprano, tenor, chorus and orchestra, Jesucristo en la Cruz by 20th century Navarran composer Fernando Remacha, and Rossini’s Stabat Mater.
He then travels to Porto, where he conducts an all-Polish programme on June 17th. The Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música will perform Górecki’s powerful and moving 3rd Symphony for orchestra and soprano, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which is based on three texts about the separation of mothers and children during wartime. The second work in the programme is Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, which has its roots in Polish folk music.
