Maciej Tworek

He studied piano at the Academy of Music in Kraków in the class of Professor Jan Hoffman, as well as choral conducting and orchestral conducting under Professor Józef Radwan. He participated in masterclasses led by Helmuth Rilling, Roger Norrington, and Kurt Masur. As an assistant conductor, he collaborated with Valery Gergiev and Lorin Maazel.

From 2005 to 2012, he served as conductor of Capella Cracoviensis. He is currently a faculty member at the Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2002, he began an 18-year-long conducting collaboration with Krzysztof Penderecki, which included, among other projects, recording all of Penderecki’s symphonies and instrumental concertos with the Sinfonia Iuventus orchestra.

In 2018, as part of the composer’s 85th birthday celebrations, he conducted the Second Violin Concerto Metamorphosen with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie, featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist. Together, they subsequently toured China with the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra.

In 2019, he conducted two major concerts featuring the music of Krzysztof Penderecki: on September 1st, the Polish Requiem to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, attended by the Presidents of Poland and Germany and the Vice President of the United States; and in October, the South Korean premiere of the St. Luke Passion during the Seoul International Music Festival.

He has performed across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, conducting ensembles such as The Hilliard Ensemble, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra (Prague Spring), the State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia", the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brno Philharmonic, and more recently the Tonhalle Zürich, Dresdner Philharmonie, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Romanian National Radio Orchestra (Enescu Festival), Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and KBS Symphony Orchestra.

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Pictured: Maciej Tworek, photo by Bartek Barczyk