Maciej Zoltowski

Maciej Zoltowski (b. 1971) - Polish composer and conductor. Music Director of Catskill Symphony Orchestra [us] and Fenimore Chamber Orchestra [us]. Maciej Zoltowski studied at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he graduated in 1996 in composition and in 1997 in conducting faculty, obtaining both M.A. diplomas with awards. His teachers at the academy included Prof. Marian Borkowski and Prof. Ryszard Dudek. He participated in many master-courses working under supervision of notable artists like Yuri Simonov and Zoltan Pesko. In 2000, he won the scholarship for young conductors of the Japanese Music Foundation JESC. He was the winner of the first composers' competition held by the Musica Sacra Society in Warsaw. In 1999, he was the finalist of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (Tokyo). In 2002, the President of the Republic of Poland decorated him with the Silver Order of Merit. In 2017 he received the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis. Maciej Zoltowski held posts in many Polish music institutions: chairperson of the Young Circle in the Polish Composers' Union, secretary general of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers' Union, secretary general and subsequently president of the Jeunesses Musicales Poland, the Polish section of the Jeunesses Musicales International. Since 2010 he is President of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) Polish Section. Appointed artistic director and conductor of the Cyprus State Orchestra in 2002, Maciej Zoltowski has developed the ensemble to high artistic standards. This has resulted in many international tours the orchestra did under his direction, visiting London, Copenhagen, Paris and Athens. In Cyprus alone, he has led over 80 concert, opera and ballet productions. In 2007-2017 Maciej Zoltowski held the post of the Managing and Artistic Director of Radom Chamber Orchestra (ROK) in Poland. Maestro Zoltowski's discography contains recordings for The Steinway Club Cyprus: Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 with Dimitris Sgouros and world premiere recording of a "Concerto for 10 Pianos and Orchestra" by Savvas Savva. Other CDs feature the Radom Chamber Orchestra: "Grazyna Bacewicz - Works for Chamber Orchestra" vol. I and II, enthusiastically received by the international press: Five Diapasons from the French magazine "Diapason", Excepcional by the Spanish "Scherzo", nomination to the International Classical Music Awards 2011. His most recent CD "Krzysztof Penderecki - Works for String Orchestra" has been released by DUX on the occasion of the composer's 80th anniversary and included in the prestigious "Penderecki Special Edition".