Awards & Winners

Antoni Wit

Date of Birth 07-February-1944
Place of Birth Kraków
(Poland, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary)
Nationality Poland
Also know as Wit, Antoni
Profession Conductor
Antoni Wit is a Polish conductor. Since year 2002 he has been music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been collaborating also with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra since the od 2010-2011 season, and he played with them as the first guest conductor. In May 2013 he has been nominated Artistic Director of the Spanish Pampeluna-based ensemble. Wit graduated from the Kraków's Academy of Music in 1967. He studied conducting under Henryk Czyż, and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki. He went on to study in Paris under Nadia Boulanger. 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, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and many of them with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, whose managing 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.

Awards by Antoni Wit

Check all the awards nominated and won by Antoni Wit.

2012


Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium
Honored for : Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Penderecki: Utrenja
Iwona Hassa","Gennady Bezzubenkov

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Szymanowski, Karol: Stabat Mater