As part of the Moniuszko 200 celebrations, Jakub Chrenowicz conducted highly successful performances of The Haunted Manor at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk this month. One of the key Polish national operas directed by Marek Weiss was led by Jakub Chrenowicz on April the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th. For more information please click HERE
Mentored by Mo Muti at the Ravenna Festival , Belarusian conductor Vladimir Ovodok will make his debut with the Orchestra di Padova e Veneto at the Auditorium Pollini in Padova on 4th of April. The programme will feature Britten Les Illuminations with the celebrated British tenor Ian Bostridge as soloist, as well as Mozart Trauermusik, Symphony No 31 and Tchaikovsky Mozartiana Suite.
Michał Dworzyński’s eagerly awaited live concert recording of Penderecki Violin Concerto No 1 with Barnabas Keleman and the London Philharmonic Orchestra is scheduled for release on the orchestra’s own label in February next year. It will also feature Krzysztof Penderecki’s orchestral work conducted by the composer.
Maestro Wit is guest-conducting the Real Filharmonia de Galicia in Spain this month in concert at Auditorio de Galicia on 21st of March. He will open the all-orchestral programme with Moniuszko Overture in honour of the Polish composer’s 200th anniversary of birth and continue with Schubert Symphony No 3, concluding with Karłowicz’s mighty Symphony op. 7 “Re-birth”.
Antoni Wit returns to work with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra this week where he will conduct Japanese premier of Osaka-born contemporary composer Dai Fujikura. The new piece Solaris Suite will be performed in two concerts on February 22 and 23 at Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater, The Concert Hall. The programme will also feature Dvorak’s Violin Concerto with the acclaimed German soloist Veronika Eberle and Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5. For more details, see HERE
*Maestro Wit premiered Fujikura’s other orchestral work Rare Gravity in Nagoya during his visit to the Orchestra in 2016.
Swiss – Canadian Teo Gheorghiu will join forces with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Andrei Feher playing Ravel Piano Concerto for Left Hand in two concerts on 15th and 16th February. The concerts will take place at one of the Orchestra’s many performing venues in Kitchener, Centre in The Square.
For his penultimate guest-conducting week with Orquesta de Navarra in Spain this season, Maestro Wit brings Bruckner Symphony No 5 which he will lead in two concerts at Baluarte on February 14th and 15th. For further details see here.
Maestro Wit returns to his former orchestra National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice to conduct a special anniversary concert on 7 February. The concert programme linked to 110th year since Karłowicz’s premature death in the Tatra mountains will feature his “Rebirth” Symphony. At the brand new NOSPR concert hall, Antoni Wit will be joined by the renowned Canadian pianist Louis Lortie performing Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the composer death. Wit recorded both works on Naxos Records as part of the complete works cycle by Lutosławski and Karłowicz.
