Director

Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski – conductor

Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski was born in 1972 in Gdynia. In 1996 he graduated with honors in symphonic and opera conducting in class of Professor Boguslaw Madej’s on Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw.

He has been an artistic and managing director of the Białystok Philharmonic since 1997. He also is an artistic director and a conductor of the “Philharmonic” Warsaw Orchestra and a guest conductor of the Grand Theatre – National Opera In Warsaw. In 2005 he was appointed an artistic an managing director of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic - a new institution established by the Minister of Culture and the Marshall of Podlasie Voivodeship.

He takes part in many musical festivals, and also cooperates very dynamically with many symphonic orchestras from Poland and abroad. He was concerting i.e. with Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio Orchestra and National Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television in Katowice.

He was performing in USA, Great Britain, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Sweden, France and Belgium, where together with with Leopoldinum Orchestra he took part in an international “Europalia” festival.

In August 2005 Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski performed with the Bialystok Philharmonic Orchestra and Stanislaw Drzewiecki (pianist) on a concert inaugurating 25th anniversary of creating “Solidarność” in The European Parliament in Brussels. In June 2006 he conducted “Jutrznia” by Krzysztof Penderecki in Smolny Sobór in Sankt Petersburg with a participation of Russian soloists, choirs and the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra.

His phonographic output contains several CDs (2 of them nominated to “Fryderyk” - Polish phonographic industry award), number of radio and tv recordings, soundtracks and light music recordings.

He is a laureate of the first prize in National Violin and Viola hearing in Elbląg and IV Fr. Platówna Vocal Contest where he won a special prize of the Ministry of Culture and Art Grand Prix – “Rydwan Apollina”.

Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski is also interested in solo singing. He graduated in solo singing the Academy of Music in Łódź in Leonard Andrzej Mróz class.

In 2001 he was awarded a prestige Minister of Culture “Ad Astra” prize. It is founded for young, talented creators of culture. In 2004 he was awarded a Silver Cross of Merits for contribution in development of culture, and in June 2006 and “GLORIA ARTIS Silver Medal of Merit to Culture”.