Anna Duczmal-Mróz
Since 2009, Anna Duczmal-Mróz has been conductor of the Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, with which she performs worldwide and regularly records Polish music for the archives of Polish Radio. The ensemble’s concerts are frequently broadcast by Polish Radio. This exceptional orchestra was founded in 1968 by her mother – the world-renowned conductor Agnieszka Duczmal. On 1 September 2024, by decision of the Board of the Wielkopolska Region, Anna Duczmal-Mróz assumed the position of Director of the Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra.She has conducted concerts in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Austria, France, Spain, Mexico, Japan and South America, and has collaborated with all of Poland’s leading orchestras, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia and NOSPR. In July 2022 she made her debut with the legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra and with the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in the USA. She has appeared in prestigious concert halls such as the Mozart Hall at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Gustav Mahler Saal, and the Max-Littmann-Saal in Bad Kissingen, as well as at many major festivals in Poland (including the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival and Chopin and His Europe), Germany, France, Spain, Japan and South America. She has performed with such outstanding soloists as Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Avi Avital, Daniel Hope, Ingolf Wunder, Kirill Troussov, Piotr Paleczny, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Janusz Wawrowski, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Georgijs Osokins, Lukas Geniušas, Dmitry Shishkin, Veriko Tchumburidze, Bartosz Nizioł, Łukasz Kuropaczewski, Soyoung Yoon, Agata Szymczewska, Tomasz Strahl, Alexander Gadjiev, Martin Garcia Garcia and Marcin Wyrostek.
A committed promoter of Polish music, she presents it in concerts at home and abroad, on CD releases and in broadcasts on radio stations worldwide. She initiated the world’s first five-disc set of Mieczysław Weinberg’s complete chamber symphonies, released by the German label CPO and by DUX, which received enthusiastic reviews from critics in Poland, Germany, France and Spain. The recordings earned three Fryderyk Award nominations, an ICMA 2020 nomination and Spain’s Scherzo magazine award “Exceptional”. This led to the publication of her article on Weinberg’s symphonic works in Scherzo.
In 2022 she led conducting courses for young conductors at the Elbląg Music Masterclass. In 2021 she served as a juror in two international conducting competitions (the Antal Doráti International Conducting Competition and the Von Bülow International Conducting Competition) as well as in an international instrumental competition. For nine years she also co-led masterclasses for young pianists with the Toruń Symphony Orchestra at the Paderewski Piano Academy, collaborating with distinguished pianists including Ilia Scheps, Robert McDonald and Andrzej Jasiński.
Her collaboration with Capella Bydgostiensis resulted in the recording of the CD “Hits of the 20th Century” for the DUX label, under the patronage of the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music. Her discography also includes, with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, a 2015 DUX release of music by Sebastian Krajewski and a live recording of Astor Piazzolla’s works with bandoneonist Wiesław Prządka.
As Music Director, she prepared the Opera Nova premiere of Maciej Małecki’s contemporary opera “Awantura w Recco, czyli drzewko wolności” to a libretto by Wojciech Młynarski (2018), and in 2019 the premiere of Felix Mendelssohn’s ballet “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk.
In 2014 she led conducting courses and concerts in South America. In the 2004/2005 season she served as assistant to Maestro Eiji Oue at the NDR Radiophilharmonie, and in the 2006/2007 season as assistant conductor to Maestro Antoni Wit at the Warsaw Philharmonic.
She began her musical education as a violinist. While studying with Prof. Krzysztof Węgrzyn at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover, Germany, her conducting talent was recognized by Maestro Eiji Oue, with whom she subsequently studied conducting (2001-2005). Already in 2000 she founded the student Benjamin Britten Kammerorchester in Hanover, with which she toured in Germany. She graduated with distinction, conducting her diploma concert with the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover. Anna Duczmal-Mróz has been a multiple recipient of scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Photo: Anna Duczmal-Mróz, Jacek Mojta
