From the start of the 2010/11 season, Krzysztof Urbański will become Chief Conductor of Trondheim Symfoniorkester. He was appointed only a week after his highly successful debut with the orchestra in September 2009.
Future dates include his US debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in spring 2010, and return visits to NDR Sinfonieorchester (Hamburg), Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Göteborgs Symfoniker. Other highlights of this season include his Japanese debut with the Tokyo and Osaka Symphony Orchestras, as well as appearances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Residentie Orkest (both in The Hague and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio and Danish National Symphony Orchestras, and the Orchestra of the Royal Danish Opera. He will also conduct Sinfonia Varsovia at the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival in summer 2010.
Further ahead, he will make his debut with Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, MDR Sinfonieorchester (Leipzig), NDR Radiophilharmonie (Hannover), the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de Espańa, and the Philharmonia and Royal Scottish National Orchestras.
Urbański graduated from the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in 2007, and in the same year was the unanimous First Prize Winner of the Prague Spring International Conducting Competition. He works regularly with all the major Polish Orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra. He has just ended his final season as Assistant Conductor at the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
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