Antoni Wit

Antoni Wit (born February 7, 1944) is a Polish conductor, composer, lawyer and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Between 2002–2013, he served as the artistic director of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.

Antoni Wit, 1986

Life and career

Wit was born in Krakow.He graduated from the Kraków's Academy of Music (then called Państwowa Wyższa Szkola Muzyczna) in 1967. He studied conducting under Henryk Czyż, and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki. He went on to study in Paris under Nadia Boulanger (1967–68). In 1969, he also graduated in law from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[1]

From 2002 to 2013 he had been music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been collaborating also with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra from the 2010–2011 to the 2016–2017 season, and he played with them as the first guest conductor. In May 2013 he has been nominated Artistic Director of the Spanish Pamplona-based ensemble.[2]

He has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and in London the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and many of them with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, whose managing and artistic director he was from 1983 to 2000. He specializes in the works of Polish composers such as Henryk Gorecki, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Meyer, Witold Lutosławski, Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki whose Polish Requiem he recorded in 2004. Wit received a Cannes Classical Award for his album of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony; his recording of Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast cycle was also very well received.[3]

He currently teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

Selected awards and honours

See also

References
  1. "Antoni Wit". Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  2. Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra Under Wit’s Baton, culture.pl, 07.05.2013
  3. "Antoni Wit". Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  4. "M.P. 2012 poz. 282". Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  5. "Dyrygent Antoni Wit odznaczony francuską Legią Honorową". Retrieved 12 November 2019.
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Kazimierz Kord		 Musical directors, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
2002–2013		 Succeeded by
Jacek Kaspszyk
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