Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra
The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra was founded on the initiative of Jerzy Semkow, one of the most prominent Polish conductors. Established by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage with a decree of 1 October 2007, it is a state artistic institution. The Orchestra is composed of the most talented graduates of art music academies under 30 years of age.
Sinfonia Iuventus began its artistic activity in June 2008. It has worked with many renowned conductors, including Jerzy Semkow, Kazimierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gabriel Chmura, Antoni Wit, Tadeusz Strugała, John Axelrod, Charles Dutoit, Juozas Domarkas, Grzegorz Nowak, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Michail Jurowski, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Andrzej Boreyko, Marek Pijarowski, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Jerzy Salwarowski, Evgeny Volynsky, Gerd Schaller, Eugene Tzigane, Massimiliano Caldi, Andriy Yurkevych, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Łukasz Borowicz and soloists, including Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Piotr Paleczny, Ivan Monighetti, Zakhar Bron, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Tatiana Szebanowa, Janusz Olejniczak, Jonathan Plowright, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Eugen Indjic, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Olga Pasiecznik, Jadwiga Rappe, Vadim Repin, Jan Stanienda, Tomasz Strahl, Alena Baeva, Leszek Możdżer, Yulianna Avdeeva, Agata Szymczewska, Jakub Jakowicz, Piotr Pławner, Patrycja Piekutowska, Łukasz Kuropaczewski.
The Orchestra has made a number of albums, radio and television recordings for Universal Music, CD Accord, DUX, Polish Radio, Albany Records, TVP Kultura and Warner Classics.
The Orchestra has performed on many concert stages and at numerous festivals in Poland and abroad: in Austria (Musikverein), China (National Grand Theatre), France (Grand Auditorium UNESCO), Spain (Auditorio Nacional de Musica), Germany (Konzerthaus Berlin), Portugal (Grande Auditorio), Italy, Switzerland, Lithuania and Ukraine. In the 2017/2018 artistic season, the ensemble participated in the contemporary premiere of Anton Rubinstein’s sacred opera Moses (conducted by Mikhail Jurowski) and a semi-staged performance of Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème (conducted by Tadeusz Kozłowski).
Since April 2009, the Orchestra has been a member of the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras, and since September 2018 – of the Association of Polish Philharmonics. In the years 2013–2020 its honorary artistic patron was Krzysztof Penderecki. In October 2018, the Orchestra officially took the name of Jerzy Semkow.
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