Antoni Wit

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Antoni Wit (born 1944, Kraków) is a Polish conductor. He is the present musical director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

Wit graduated from Krakow's State Higher School of Music, studying conducting under Henryk Czyz and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki, going on to study under Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Wit has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and in London the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and specializes in the works of Polish composers such as Henryk Gorecki, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Meyer, Witold Lutoslawski and Krzysztof Penderecki. Wit received a Cannes Classical Award for his album of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, and high acclaim has also been granted to his recording of Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast cycle.

Wit currently teaches at at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

[edit] External links

• Faculty biography from the Frederyk Chopin Academy of Music
• Naxos artist biography
• Biography from the Warsaw Philharmonic
• culture.pl

Preceded by Kazimierz Kord

Musical directors, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra 2002–

Succeeded by incumbent