Antoni Wit (born February 7, 1944, Kraków) is a Polish conductor. He is the current musical director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wit graduated from Kraków's State Higher School of Music, studying conducting under Henryk Czyz and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki. He went on to study under Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
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 and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and many of them with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, whose manatging 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.
| Preceded by Kazimierz Kord |
Musical directors, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra 2002– |
Succeeded by incumbent |