Jacek Kaspszyk

Polish conductor, born 10 August 1952 in Biała Podlaska, Poland. Since his success in the prestigious Herbert von Karajan Competition (1977), Jacek Kaspszyk has conducted major orchestras around the world, including all the major London orchestras, and also the Hallé, Royal Liverpool Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the BBC orchestras of Scotland and Wales, debuting with the latter at the BBC Proms. He has also conducted orchestras in Japan, Korea and Malaysia, and he regularly appears in China with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra and Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing. He has held many important musical posts in Poland, including music director of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the Wrocław Philharmonic (now the National Forum of Music), and also managing and artistic director of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera. With the PNO’s ensembles, he has enjoyed great success in Japan, at the Beijing Festival, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, Hong Kong Arts Festival and elsewhere. As an opera conductor, he has prepared productions for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Opéra Comique in Paris, Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opernhaus in Zurich, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and recently the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Since September 2013, he has been artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic. At the start of his tenure, he led the orchestra’s first ever concerts broadcast on the Internet.