Jurek Dybał,  (Poland)

Jurek
Dybał

(Poland)

Chief conductor of The Polish Chamber Orchestra ROK, Artistic Director of the Orchestra of the Royal Capital City of Krakow Sinfonietta Cracovia (2014–2022), an acclaimed conductor and musician of the Vienna Philharmonic. He has made appearances with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederosterreich, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, L'Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Kammer-Orchester Wiener Concert-Verein, Concerto Köln, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra, Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Wrocław's Leopoldinum and National Forum of Music Symphony Orchestra, as well as Philharmonic Orchestras in Poznań, Kraków, Łódź and Gdańsk and Silesian and Krakow Operas. He also supports as its artistic leader and conductor the „NADIIA” Ukrainian Symphony Orchestra Kharkiv, which found its artistic refugium in Poland. 

Jurek Dybał is the founder and director of the Krzysztof Penderecki International Music Festival – Level 320 held in the historical hall of Guido Mine in Zabrze. He conducted the Polish premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's Adagio for Strings and Music for Three Recorders, Marimba, Percussion and Strings. He also participated in the world premiere of the composer's quintet Leaves of an Unwritten Diary and Duo concertante (Polish and French premiere). 

Dybał conducted the Polish premiere (in the series of world premieres) of the Concertino per tromba e orchestra by Krzysztof Penderecki. The artist is the recipient of many prestigious accolades, such as the International Classical Music Award, Gramofon Award (Hungary), Pizzicato's Supersonic Award, the Joker of the Crescendo magazine, two Fryderyk awards granted by the Polish Phonographic Academy, as well as the Golden Mask award and Jan Kiepura's Opera Award in the Best Conductor category for his enthusiastically received stage adaptation of Ubu Rex, an opera written by Krzysztof Penderecki. Dybał's work as an opera conductor ranges from works by Telemann, Gluck, Donizetti, Mozart, through Puccini, Dvořák’s Vanda and Wagner's Nibelungenring for Children (a production by the Vienna State Opera), to modern rarities by Grigory Fried and Michael Nyman. His recordings can be found on albums by Sony Classical and Warner Classics, among others. Recently the artist arranged (for Schott Music)  and premiered with Warsaw Philharmonic the unfinished K. Penderecki’s Opera „Phaedra”, initially ordered by Vienna State Opera. 

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