Lukasz Borowicz
Łukasz Borowicz, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Poznań Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of the Kraków Philharmonic, is one of the most versatile conductors of his generation. He regularly appears as a guest conductor with leading European orchestras, performing major works of the German and Austrian repertoire as well as significant works from Central and Eastern Europe. He is also active in opera, and many of his more than 150 recordings have received prestigious awards. From 2007 to 2015, he served as Chief Conductor of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Warsaw, and from 2006 to 2021 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Poznań Philharmonic.
In the 2026/27 season, Łukasz Borowicz makes his debuts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the State Philharmonic Košice. He will record an album with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra and make his debut at the Centralny Plac Muzyki Festival in Warsaw, where he will conduct Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka. He will also return for concerts and recording projects with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Prague Philharmonia, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, as well as the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Warsaw Philharmonic, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, Wrocław Opera and others.
Among the other major orchestras with which Łukasz Borowicz has performed are the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Bamberg Symphony, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group and the Prague Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has appeared at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Kissinger Sommer Festival. He has also maintained a long-standing collaboration with the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, where he has conducted more than twenty rarely performed operas to date.
As an opera conductor, he made his debut at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw with a production of Don Giovanni. Since then, he has conducted more than 200 performances there, including several premieres. His recent operatic projects include a new production of Moniuszko’s Halka at Theater an der Wien and the Polish National Opera, Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo at the Opéra national du Rhin, and the world premiere of Krzysztof Meyer’s opera Dead End at the Polish National Opera.
Borowicz’s recordings have received four Diapason d’Or awards. His symphonic discography includes the complete violin concertos of Grażyna Bacewicz (Chandos), her complete symphonic works (cpo), the complete symphonic works of Hugo Alfvén (cpo), and the complete symphonic works of Andrzej Panufnik (cpo). The final recording in the Panufnik cycle was selected as an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone, and in 2015 Borowicz received a special ICMA award for this pioneering project. In 2018, he received another ICMA award for his recording of Feliks Nowowiejski’s Quo Vadis (cpo). In 2025, he received both an ICMA Award and the Recording of the Year award for the album Urlicht, recorded with the Poznań Philharmonic and baritone Samuel Hasselhorn (harmonia mundi). His recording Heart’s Delight – Songs of Richard Tauber with tenor Piotr Beczała for Deutsche Grammophon was also met with great acclaim, while the DVD of Moniuszko’s Halka (Unitel) was named a Critic’s Choice by Opera News in July 2022.
Łukasz Borowicz was born in Warsaw in 1977, where he studied at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music. His numerous distinctions include the Paszport Polityki award (2008), the Coryphaeus of Polish Music award (2011), the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award (2013), the Tansman Award for an Outstanding Personality in Musical Life (2014), and an Honorary Distinction from the Polish Composers’ Union (2021). He is a professor at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków.
2026/27 Season
The artists is represented by Alena Kunertová, Nachtigall Artists
tel: +420 602 219 611, e-mail: a.kunertova@nachtigallartists.cz
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