Paweł Przytocki
Paweł Przytocki was born in Krosno, Poland. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow in 1985, where he studied conducting under Jerzy Katlewicz. In the years 1986–1987, he was a scholarship holder at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, participating in masterclasses given by Helmuth Rilling. From 1988 to 1991, he was the conductor and artistic director of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk. From 1995 to 1997, he was the artistic director of the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź. From 2005 to 2009, Paweł Przytocki collaborated with the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, and from 2008 to 2012 he was the General and Artistic Director of the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Krakow. In 2017, the conductor has returned to the post of the artistic director of the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź.
Paweł Przytocki collaborates with most philharmonic orchestras in Poland, as well as with symphony orchestras abroad, including the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in Kiev, Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz, Jenaer Philharmonie, Brandenburgische Staatsorchester Frankfurt and Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga.
The artist regularly participates in international music festivals. He has taken part in, among others, the Athens Festival (1987), Stuttgarter Musikfest (1988), Flanders Festival (1989), Festival de La Chaise-Dieu (1996), Kissinger Sommer (1988), Bratislava Music Festival (1999) and Prague Spring (2001).
Paweł Przytocki has also performed at many prestigious music venues in Europe, including those in Vienna (Musikverein), Berlin (Konzerthaus), Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet) and Hamburg (Musikhalle).
The artist has made recordings for the DUX, Aurophon and Point Classics labels. His recording of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 was honoured by the American music magazine La Folia (alongside such creations as Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 conducted by Carlos Kleiber and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in F minor ‘Appassionata’, Op. 57 performed by Sviatoslav Richter in 1960).
Since 2007, he has been associated with the Conducting Department of the Academy of Music in Krakow, where he teaches his conducting class. In March 2020, he received the Fryderyk Award in the category ‘Album of the Year: Concert Music’ for Emil Młynarski: Violin Concertos. In 2022, he received the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
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