The young Polish conductor, Krzysztof Urbański, was the unanimous First Prize Winner of the Prague Spring International Conducting Competition in May 2007.
Currently Assistant Conductor at the Warsaw Philharmonic, where he conducts several subscription concerts each season, Urbański graduated from the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in 2007. As Founder and Artistic Director of the Lodz Youth Symphony Orchestra during the period 1999-2002, he made numerous concert broadcasts for Polish Radio.
Urbański works regularly with all the other major Polish Orchestras, including the Sinfonia Varsovia, National Polish Radio Symphony and the Poznan Philharmonic, and has enjoyed successful debuts recently with the Prague Radio Symphony, the Ukrainian National Opera and at the Karlshamn Baltic Festival in Sweden.
Upcoming highlights in future seasons include concerts with the SWR in Stuttgart and the Prague Philharmonia at the 2008 Prague Spring Festival, as well as performances at the Central European Music Festival and with the Sinfonia Varsovia and the Cordoba Orchestra.
A talented composer, Urbański's Small Christmas Symphony received honourable mention at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Composition.
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