Łukasz Borowicz- conductor

Łukasz Borowicz was born in 1977 in Warsaw. He is currently an assistant conductor to Kazimierz Kord - Music Director of the Polish National Opera – Grand Theatre. He was an assistant conductor to Prof. Antoni Wit – the General Director of the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw (2002/2005). He studied orchestral and opera conducting with Prof. Bogusław Madey at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, gaining a diploma with distinction and the “Magna cum Laude” medal in 2002. Even before graduation, he was an assistant conductor to Iván Fischer at the Budapest Festival Orchestra (2000/2001). He held a grant to study at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti in 1999 and 2000. He had a honour to assist Prof. Krzysztof Penderecki. He has been awarded several prizes, including the 1st Gustav Mahler International Competition in Bamberg (Special Prize of the Alice Rosner Foundation, Montreaux, 2004), the “Maestro Silva Pereira” International Competition in Porto (Second Prize, 2002), the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Competition in Athens (Fourth Prize, 2000), and the Antonio Pedrotti International Competition in Trento (Second Prize, 1999). His three CD recordings were nominated for the “Fryderyk 2000” Award in Warsaw. The CD recording of Polish and Hungarian music was awarded Critic's Prize by Hungarian magazine “Gramofon”. In July 2004 he took part in a series of anniversary concerts of the National Polish Radio Orchestra devoted to music by Wojciech Kilar in Ukraine and Poland. In August 2004 he conducted at the TV international gala concert commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising 1944. In December 2004 he was nominated to the "Paszport Polityki" Prize. He collaborates with Cantor Joseph Malovany (concerts in Warsaw, Łódź, Kraków, Lwów). In addition to most of Poland’s symphony orchestras (among others: the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Polish Radio Orchestra and the Sinfonia Varsovia), he has conducted Bamberger Symphoniker, Russian National Orchestra, the Festival Orchestra of Sofia, the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Colours (Athens), Orquestra de Cadaques, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Erdödy Chamber Orchestra in Budapest, Matáv Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine.