Conductors

JERZY SEMKOW
An outstanding personality as an international conductor. His artistic interests include great symphonies, mainly classic and romantic, as well as opera music.

He has served as artistic director of the Warsaw opera, among others, first conductor of the royal opera in Copenhagen, director and first conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (USA), and director and first conductor of the Italian Radio and Television RAI Orchestra in Rome.

Jerzy Semkow's travels have taken him to the most famous music centers of the world. He has appeared with such outstanding ensembles as: the London Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphonic, the Israel Philharmonic, French National Orchestra, the Paris Orchestra, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Swiss Romande Orchestra, and orchestras in Madrid, Monte Carlo, Oslo, the Hague, Naples, Turin, and St. Petersburg. In the United States he has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and orchestras in Washington, Detroit, Houston , Dallas, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Montreal, and Toronto. He has also been guest conductor in Caracas, São Paulo, Sydney, and Melbourne. His artistry as a conductor is known in opera houses in Milan (La Scala), London (Covent Garden), Geneva, Rome, and Florence.

Jerzy Semkow's artistic achievements have been recorded by many record companies including: Columbia, EMI, His Master's Voice, Fona, and Polskie Nagrania. Many of his recordings have received prestigious awards in Poland and abroad.

In February 2005 the artist was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw and as first conductor joined the group of laureates of this award in the history of the music school in Warsaw. He is also commander in the order of Arts and Letters.

Jerzy Semkow has worked with young people for many years. He conducted concerts during a music festival in Aspen, Colorado, where several orchestras were composed of students and professors from the largest conservatories in the United States. He also gave a number of lectures on music at the University of Colorado. He also lead masters classes at the famous American university, Yale, and at the New York conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music.

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TADEUSZ WOJCIECHOWSKI
was born in Warsaw, where he graduated in cello (in Andrzej Orkisz's class) as well as in conducting (in Stanisław Wisłocki's class) from the Academy of Music. In 1973 and 1974 he participated in Bernard Michelin's cello master class in the National Conservatory of Music in Paris.

In 1973, as a chamber musician, he received 3rd prize at the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Rotterdam. In 1974 he was awarded 2nd prize at the Dezyderiusz Danczowski Cello Competition in Poznań. Moreover, Maestro Wojciechowski has won many conducting awards, including 2nd prize at the International Conducting Competition in Besançon, France, as well as both 3rd prize and the Minister of Arts and Culture Prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition in Katowice - all in 1979.

As early as in his Paris years, Tadeusz Wojciechowski worked with such ensembles as Orchestre de Versailles, Les Musiciens de Paris, Orchestre des Pasdeloup, Orchestre de Colonne, and Orchestre de Conservatoire. In 1976 and 1977 he served as concertmaster of the Polish Chamber Orchestra directed by Jerzy Maksymiuk, with which he went on several tours, among others to Italy, Germany, and Great Britain, and made some recordings for EMI. At the same time, in 1976, he started his co-operation with the Grand Theater in Warsaw, which lasted until 1983. In 1982 he was invited to lead the Danish Royal Academy in Copenhagen, where he served as principal conductor from 1983 to 1996, and still continues his co-operation with it. He appeared in such prestigious opera theaters as the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, the Royal Opera, Stockholm and the Royal Opera, Oslo. In 1994 he was appointed director of the Polish Radio Orchestra and Chorus, and served in this post up to the ensemble's disbandment. Then he became director of the Grand Theater in Warsaw, where he served to 1996. From 1998 to 2004, he was artistic director of the Music Festival in Łańcut and also of the Rzeszów Philharmonic. In 2002 he became the chief-conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Pomerania Philharmonic. Apart from that, he co-operates with almost all symphony orchestras in Poland Furthermore, he is first guest conductor of the Latvian National Opera in Riga and also collaborates with Theater am Gearner Platz in Munich on a regular basis. In the years 2005 - 2008 he was the Artistic Director of Łódź Philharmonic.

He has performed in many countries, including Germany, France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, Italy, Turkey, the United States, Mexico, Columbia, and Japan. He has made numerous recordings for the Polish Radio and the Danish Radio. He has conducted over fourty operas and the majority of the world repertoire of symphonies.

In 2007 maestro Tadeusz Wojciechowski was honoured with the silver medal "Meritorious for culture - Gloria Artis", granted by the Minister of the Culture and National Heritage.

Since September 2009 he is the Artistic Director of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra.

PRZESŁUCHANIA 14.02.2012

25.02.2012; godz. 19:00 - Warszawa, Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. W. Lutosłwskiego

08.03.2012; godz. 19:00 - Warszawa, Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. W. Lutosławskiego

15.04.2012; godz. 18:00 - Warszawa, Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. W. Lutosławskiego

24.05.2012; godz. 19:00 - Warszawa, Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. W. Lutosławskiego

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