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Studied conducting with Jan Wincenty Hawel at the Music
Academy in Katowice (diploma with distinction), where he currently works
as an assistant. He also studied oboe with Jerzy Kotyczka at the Music
Academy in Kraków. He continued his education thanks to a grant from the
Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, attending master classes for
conductors given by Gianluigi Gelmetti (2001) and Lothar Zagrosek (2002,
Diploma di Merito). He won First Prize at the 2nd National Young
Conductors1 Competition in Bia1ystok (1998), amd two special awards (including
one from the conductor Antoni Wit and Zofia Wit) at the 6th Grzegorz
Fitelberg International Conductors1 Competition in Katowice (1999). He
twice held
a grant from the Minister of Culture and Art. He also received several
awards from the President of the City of Katowice for his artistic
achievements.
He is a permanent conductor of the New Music Orchestra, with which he has
performed at many festivals of contemporary music, including the OWarsaw
Autumn1 (1999, 2000, 2002) and Silesian Days of Contemporary Music. They
have many world and Polish premieres to their credit, recordings for
Polish Radio, as well as
a cd debut. At the Silesian Theatre in Katowice Szymon Bywalec presented
the first Polish performance of Stravinsky1s The Soldier1s Tale.
In 2000 Szymon Bywalec founded the Chamber Orchestra OArs Musicae1, which
specializes in the early music repertoire, and the vocal ensemble
OCappella Theoreticorum Cantans1. He is also in charge of the Karol
Szymanowski Youth Orchestra in Katowice, which participated in the ONono
Concerto di Natale in Vaticano1 (December 2001).
As a guest conductor, he has performed with many orchestras in Poland and
abroad, including the Miskolci Szimfonikus Zenekar, Camerata Strumentale
OCitta di Prato1, the Polish Opera Orchestra (Stuttgart, Freiburg,
Wolfsburg, Gotha, Neubrandenburg), the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, the
Symphony Orchestra of the Music Academy in Katowice and the symphony
orchestras in Cz´stochowa Katowice, Bia1ystok, Olsztyn and Wa1brzych.
In May 2003, thanks to a grant from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
awarded by the Friends of the OWarsaw Autumn1 Foundation, he conducted the
National Romanian Radio Orchestra in a concert inaugurating the
International New Music Week in Bucharest.
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