Krzysztof Urbanski

• Conductor

Biography

Krzysztof Urbański will also make his debuts with the Swedish Radio and Danish National Symphony Orchestras, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de Espana, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Orchestre National de Belgique and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Further afield, following highly successful debuts with the Tokyo Symphony and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestras in autumn 2009, he has been invited to return to both in spring 2011.

Polish repertoire plays an important part in his programming: he will conduct the opening concert of the Polish focus at the 2010 Schleswig Holstein Festival with Sinfonia Varsovia, conducting Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Eva Kupiec and Górecki's Symphony No. 3. He will make his debut at the 2010 Grant Park Festival in Chicago with a programme including Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra, and in addition will conduct Lutoslawski's Little Suite in his debut visit to the Indianapolis Symphony in spring 2010 (a first for the orchestra), and Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima with NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg in autumn 2010. He has also introduced Orawa and Krzesany by Wojciech Kilar to many orchestras.

Urbański graduated from the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in 2007, and in the same year was the unanimous First Prize Winner of the Prague Spring International Conducting Competition. He works regularly with all the major Polish Orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, and served as Assistant Conductor to the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra from 2007 - 2009.