Krzysztof Urbański

"To conduct the orchestra, there arrived a vivacious leader; Krzysztof Urbanski. He made ​​a huge impression in his interpretation of Shostakovich's 10th Symphony...Let's face it: this is one of the most impressive leaders that we have seen since the departure of the unforgettable Yakov Kreizberg, and is the Music Director of the Indianpolis Symphony Orchestra. He is 29 years old today. I hope he reads these lines and a dedication to him of the traditional Polish address to those who are celebrating their birthday: "Sto lat!" That is, simply, a hope that he will live for another hundred years..." (Nice Matin, October 2011)

"Urbanski displayed a fluid baton technique, briskly emphatic when necessary, signaling what he wanted in articulation and phrasing with an eloquent left hand. Conducting without scores (except in the concerto), he seemed to have all musical synapses firing in two works by Mendelssohn. The ideas he apparently brought to bear in the Hebrides Overture ("Fingal's Cave") and the Symphony No. 4 in A major ("Italian") were fresh and direct."

"Fingal's Cave" sounded astonishingly like the product of a couple of years of working together, not the result of such limited mutual acquaintance. The gentle aspects of this paean to a seascape amid spectacular rocks that Mendelssohn visited off the Scottish coast got careful attention, making the stormy outbursts all the more impressive." (Indianapolis Star, May 2011)