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Antoni Wit (born February 7, 1944 in Kraków) is a Polish conductor. Since year 2002 he has been music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been collaborating also with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra since the od 2010-2011 season, and he played with them as the first guest conductor. In May 2013 he has been nominated Artistic Director of the Spanish Pampeluna-based ensemble[1].
Wit graduated from the Kraków's Academy of Music (then called Państwowa Wyższa Szkola Muzyczna) in 1967. He studied conducting under Henryk Czyż, and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki. He went on to study in Paris under Nadia Boulanger (1967-68).
Wit has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and in London the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and many of them with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, whose managing and artistic director he was from 1983 to 2000. He specializes in the works of Polish composers such as Henryk Gorecki, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Meyer, Witold Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki whose Polish Requiem he recorded in 2004. Wit received a Cannes Classical Award for his album of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony; his recording of Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast cycle was also very well received.
Wit currently teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.
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Polish conductor |
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 Antoni Wit conducts the Warsaw Philharmonic Antoni Wit conducts the Warsaw Philharmonic for a performance of Moniuszko's Bajka Overture. |  Antoni Wit o Wojciechu Kilarze (English subtitles) Pełna ciekawych anegdot i wspomnień wypowiedź maestro Antoniego Wita na temat twórczości, stylu kompozytorskiego oraz samego Wojciecha Kilara z okazji 80. ur... |  NIKOLAI LUGANSKY & ANTONI WIT Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 1st mov. Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Op.18 -I. Maestoso NIKOLAI LUGANSKY / Николай Луганский (pf) ANTONI WIT (con) Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra / Orkies... |  Mahler No. 8, Antoni Wit, Finale, "Chorus Mysticus", 2005 Antoni Wit - Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 8 - Part Two: Final Scene from Goethe's "Faust Part II": XVIII. "Chorus Mysticus" Warsaw National Philharmonic et al.... |  Antoni Wit - Szymanowski: Symphony No.4, Op. 60 'Symphonie Concertante' Warsaw Philharmonic More info: http://www.icaclassics.com Superbly filmed for Polish Television, Antoni Wit's performances of Szymanowski's Third and Fourth Symphonies embody th... |  Antoni Wit - Chopin w moim życiu |  Ensaio Aberto - Antoni Wit executa Karol Szymanowski A Osesp executou hoje em ensaio aberto ao público, sob regência de Antoni Wit, a "Sinfonia nº 2 em Si Bemol Maior, Op.19" de Karol Szymanowski, compositor no... |  NIKOLAI LUGANSKY & ANTONI WIT Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 2nd mov. Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Op.18 -II. Adagio sostenuto NIKOLAI LUGANSKY / Николай Луганский (pf) ANTONI WIT (con) Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra... |  Antoni Wit popiera Komorowskiego - a Ty? Antoni Wit. |  NIKOLAI LUGANSKY & ANTONI WIT Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 3rd mov. Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Op.18 -III. Allegro scherzando NIKOLAI LUGANSKY / Николай Луганский (pf) ANTONI WIT (con) Warsaw National Philharmonic Orches... |
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Audiophile Audition
Sun, 05 May 2013 14:45:40 -0700
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG: Symphony No. 8 (“Polish Flowers”) – Rafał Bartmiński, tenor/ Magdalena Dobrowolska, sop./ Ewa Marciniec, alto/ Warsaw Philharmonic Orch. & Choir/ Antoni Wit – Naxos 8.572873, 58:32 ***: Mieczyslaw Weinberg is not exactly a ...
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Audiophile Audition
Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:58 -0700
Lukasz Dlugosz, flute/ Warsaw Philharmonic Orch./Antoni Wit – Naxos. Piano and flute concertos by the Polish master Krzysztof Penderecki continue his integration of avante-garde and Romantic styles, with dramatic results. Published on May 14, 2013 ...
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Rzeczpospolita
Wed, 08 May 2013 23:08:50 -0700
Dotychczasowy dyrektor naczelny i artystyczny Filharmonii Narodowej otrzymał nominację na stanowisko szefa artystycznego Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra w Pampelunie. Antoni Wit od 2010 r. pełnił funkcję pierwszego gościnnego dyrygenta tej orkiestry.
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New Zealand Herald
Fri, 10 May 2013 10:32:33 -0700
"My teacher, Antoni Wit, who knows him very well and has recorded all the orchestral music, once told me that Penderecki changed his way of composing when he started to conduct." Discussing Penderecki, we find a link between the man who made his ...
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Bangkok Post
Mon, 13 May 2013 11:53:21 -0700
They currently offer most of his work in fine, idiomatic interpretations by Antoni Wit conducting the Polish National Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles and choruses (they have been doing the same for Penderecki). Finally, the British label Chandos ...
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Diario de Navarra
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:11:19 -0700
El próximo 7 de junio, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra pondrá fin a una etapa de quince años bajo la batuta de Ernest Martínez Izquierdo. Esa será la fecha de su último concierto como director titular en Baluarte, al que se sumará el Orfeón Pamplonés ...
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Limelight Magazine
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:19:37 -0700
The New York Philharmonic's music director Alan Gilbert gives a trio of concerts in September that includes Lutosławski's Fourth Symphony and Bartók's The Wooden Prince. Antoni Wit conducts the St Luke Passion by his compatriot Krzysztof Penderecki and ...
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La Nueva España
Sat, 18 May 2013 20:21:43 -0700
Además, ha colaborado con Vladimir Fedoseyev, Pietari Inkinen, sir Neville Marriner, Diego Matheuz y Antoni Wit. Este año ya ha tocado o tiene previsto hacerlo con la Filarmónica de Nueva York, la Sinfónica de Chicago, la de Boston, la Orquesta de ...
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