Anna Duczmal-Mróz
'Born to be a conductor' Eiji Oue
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‘Anna Duczmal-Mróz inspires the orchestra with extraordinary transparency and wonderful nuances, but also with intensity of playing.’
Pizzicato, Remy Franck, 2015
Photo credit: Jacek Mójta Fotografie
Polish conductor Anna Duczmal-Mróz is Artistic Director and conductor of the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio, with which she regularly records and performs internationally, and is Taki Alsop Conducting Fellow 2022-24.
Anna’s most recent debuts include the National Orchestra Institute and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming projects in 2023/24 include Organ Symphony by Saint-Saëns with the London Mozart Players and a debut with the L'Orchestre National de Bretagne, concerts with Staatsorchester Mainz and Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany, a tour with Sinfonietta Riga, alongside her regular concerts with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio.
Anna has worked with all the major orchestras in Poland, including Warsaw National Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, and National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio. She conducted orchestras in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Austria, France, Spain, Japan, Mexico, and South America.
As music director, she prepared and gave the premiere of contemporary opera An Adventure in Recco or Tree of Freedom by Maciej Małecki to the libretto of Wojciech Młynarski in Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz in 2018, and in 2019 gave the premiere of Mendelsohn’s Midsummer Night Dream ballet with the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk.
She has performed in major concert halls such as the Wiener Konzerthaus Mozart Saal, the Gustav Mahler Saal, the Max Littmann Saal, the Palais des Beaux -Arts in Brussels and at major festivals in Poland (such as Chopin and His Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival), Germany, South America and the USA (Ravinia Festival and National Orchestral Institute & Festival).
Anna Duczmal-Mróz performed with artists such as Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Avi Avital, Daniel Hope, Kirill Troussov, Ingolf Wunder, Georgij Osokins, Veriko Tchumburidze, Alexander Gadijev, and Martin Garcia Garcia among others.
She held assistant conductor positions to Eiji Oue at NDR Radiophilharmonie, and to Antoni Wit at the Warsaw National Philharmonic.
Anna is a committed proponent of Polish music both in Poland and abroad, in concert and on radio, and regularly records Polish music with her orchestra. She is a creator of the world’s first five-disc series of all chamber symphonies by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, which were recorded for the German labels CPO and Polish DUX. The recordings were warmly received by critics in Poland, Germany, France and Spain, the albums were awarded ‘Exceptional’ recognition in the Spanish Scherzo Magazine, and brought three nominations for Fryderyk and ICMA Awards in 2020.