Conductor

Antoni Wit is one of the most highly regarded Polish conductors and a champion of Polish music. A top prize winner at the Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition in 1971 and an assistant to Herbert von Karajan at the Easter Festival in Salzburg he subsequently worked with all of the leading orchestras in Poland. He was Chief Conductor of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice before he held the post of General and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic for twelve years until the end of the 12/13 season. Antoni Wit enjoys an international career with major orchestras throughout Europe, America and the Far East. Past highlights have comprised Berliner Philharmoniker, Dresden Staatskapelle, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras among others. Recent and future orchestral engagements include Dortmund Philharmoniker, Estonian National Symphony, Norrkoping Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, NOSPR, Prague Symphony, Nagoya Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony orchestras. Six times Grammy Award nominated, Antoni Wit has made over one hundred and fifty recordings for EMI, Sony and Naxos. He has sold close to 6 million records on Naxos. Antoni Wit was formerly a professor at music academies in Poland where his students included Krzysztof Urbański, Michał Dworzyński and Dawid Runtz.