Assistant Professor Jan Miłosz Zarzycki, DA Hab.

con­duc­tor

In 1994 he grad­u­ated with a diploma with hon­ours from Marek Pijarowski’s class of con­duct­ing in Wrocław. He sup­ple­mented his stud­ies in con­duct­ing in Vienna and Berlin, where he had an oppor­tu­nity to learn the art of con­duct­ing from such mas­ters of the baton as: S. Ozawa, K. Masur or C. Abbado. He also grad­u­ated from the Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal Stud­ies at the Acad­emy of Music in Katow­ice; as a vio­lin­ist he is a prize win­ner of many music com­pe­ti­tions. In 1988 he became a head of the Stu­dent Cham­ber Orches­tra Jeunesses Musi­cales attached to the Acad­emy of Music in Katow­ice; in the period of 1992–1993 he coop­er­ated with the National Opera in Wrocław.
In April 1994 he took part in the 1st Witold Lutosławski All-Poland Review of Young Con­duc­tors in Białys­tok, where he won the 1^st Prize (ex aequo), as well as three addi­tional prizes, e.g. prize of the orches­tra. He coop­er­ated with the National Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Pol­ish Radio in Katow­ice, Sin­fo­nia Varso­via and the War­saw Cham­ber Opera.
He con­ducted most Pol­ish phil­har­monic orches­tras. He gave con­certs in Ger­many, France, Aus­tria, Hol­land, Czech Repub­lic, Rus­sia, Italy, Ukraine, Mace­do­nia, USA, Bel­gium, Lithua­nia and Belarus. In 1997 he won the 3^rd Prize at the 7^th A. Toscanini Inter­na­tional Con­duct­ing Com­pe­ti­tion in Parma, which resulted in his con­cert tour around Italy with the Sym­phony Orches­tra of Romagna “Arturo Toscanini”.
Since 1999 he has been Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor and mem­ber of the Chair of Con­duct­ing at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw; he runs the Inter­na­tional Youth Music Work­shop in Szczecin. He is also the 1st Con­duc­tor of the War­saw Cham­ber Orches­tra Con­cen­tus pro arte, and Gen­eral and Artis­tic Direc­tor of the Witold Lutosławski Cham­ber Phil­har­monic in Łomża.
Jan Miłosz Zarzy­cki is a final­ist and prize win­ner of inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tions in Italy, Spain and Hun­gary. In 2008 the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and National Her­itage hon­oured him with the Spe­cial Award in recog­ni­tion of his invalu­able mer­its for the Pol­ish music cul­ture, and with a diploma for extra­or­di­nary achieve­ments for the ben­e­fit of Fry­deryk Chopin’s legacy in 2011. In the same year Jan Miłosz Zarzy­cki obtained a diploma of Post­grad­u­ate Stud­ies in Man­age­ment at the Depart­ment of Man­age­ment, the Uni­ver­sity of Warsaw.