Jacek Brzoznowski
Jacek Brzoznowski graduated with honours in symphonic and opera conducting from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he studied in the class of Wojciech Rajski and Rafał Jacek Delekta, before obtaining his doctorate (2023) from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow. In the 2024/2025 artistic season, he is Assistant Conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic.
He has won first prize in the 1st International Orchestra Conducting Academy and Competition in Estoril (Portugal, 2020) and third prize in the 2nd Adam Kopyciński National Competition for Student Conductors in Wrocław (2017), where he also received two special prizes. He is a finalist of the Lányi International Conducting Competition in Subotica (Serbia, 2021) and a semi-finalist of the 1st European Union Conducting Competition in Pazardzhik (Bulgaria, 2018). In 2024, he was a finalist in the competition for the position of assistant conductor with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Together with Cappella Gedanensis, he has twice made CD recordings and also participated in a recording made by TVP. The year 2024 saw the release of the album Gdańsk dla muzyki polskiej [Gdańsk for Polish music], with compositions by Jerzy Maksymiuk, Zbigniew Kozub, Adam Sławinski and Władyslaw Słowinski, featuring solo parts by Łukasz Długosz and Agata Kielar-Długosz. In 2021, he conducted the premiere of Marcello di Capua’s opera La forza del merito at the Podkarpacka Philharmonic in Rzeszów, as part of the 60th Łańcut Music Festival. In 2022, he collaborated on the premiere of the ballet Alice in Wonderland (Przemysław Zych, Robert Bondara) at Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz.
Thanks to a programme run by the Institute of Music and Dance (IMiT), in the 2017/2018 season he was Conductor-in-Residence at the Cappella Gedanensis, with which he has continued to perform. From 2018 to 2021, he worked with the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, where he conducted performances and served as assistant conductor. He has attended many masterclasses, by conductors such as Marin Alsop, José Maria Florêncio, Alim Shakh, George Tchitchinadze, Nikolay Lalov, Roberto Gianola, Paweł Kotla, Jerzy Salwarowski and Rafał Jacek Delekta. He has also performed with the Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras (Portugal), Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc (Czechia), Witold Lutosławski Płock Symphony Orchestra, Polish Chamber Philharmonic in Sopot, Elbląg Chamber Orchestra and Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra.
[2025]