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£ukasz Borowicz was born in 1977 in Warsaw. He is
currently an assistant to Antoni Wit, Music Director of the Warsaw
Philharmonic – The National Orchestra of Poland. He studied orchestral
and opera conducting with Bogus³aw Madey at the Music Academy in Warsaw,
gaining a diploma with distinction and the ‘Magna cum Laude’
medal in 2002. Even before graduation, he was assistant conductor to Iván
Fischer at the Budapest Festival Orchestra (2000/2001). He held a grant to
study at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Gianluigi Gelmetti in 1999 and
2000.
He has been awarded several prizes at conducting competitions, including the
1st Gustav Mahler International Competition in Bamberg (Special Prize of the
Alice Rosner Foundation, Montreaux, 2004), the ‘Maestro Silva Pereira’
International Competition in Porto (Second Prize, 2002), the Dimitri
Mitropoulos International Competition in Athens (Fourth Prize, 2000), and
the 6th Antonio Pedrotti International Competi-tion in Trento (Second Prize,
1999).
His cd featuring music by Polish composers Karol Kurpiñski and Franciszek
Lessel on the Acte Préalable label was nominated for the ‘Fryderyk
2000’ Award. The cd recording of Polish and Hungarian music (Kar³owicz,
Bacewicz, Weiner, Orban) for dux was nominated for the same award in 2003.
In addition to most of Poland’s symphony orchestras, he has conducted
Bamberger Symphoniker, the Festival Orchestra of Sofia, the Danish Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Colours (Athens), Orquestra de Cadaques,
Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Orchestra Haydn Bolzano
e Trento, Erdödy Chamber Orchestra (Budapest), matáv Symphony Orchestra (Budapest),
the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus, and the National
Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine.
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