Marek Moś

An outstanding Polish conductor, violinist and chamber musician. Founder and Artistic Director of AUKSO – the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy; moreover, director of the AUKSO Summer Philharmonic and the Auksodrone festival.

Founder and long-time leader of the Silesian String Quartet – an ensemble which in a short time became one of the finest string quartets in Europe. Together with the string quartet, he has performed at recognised festivals and in the most prestigious concert venues worldwide.

Thanks to his broad musical horizons and openness to new experiences, he has been leading one of the best chamber orchestras in Europe for over twenty years. With AUKSO, he performs contemporary, film, jazz and popular music; he is particularly fond of works balancing on the border of genres. He participates in projects expanding the concept of orchestral music. The artist has worked with leading representatives of Polish and foreign electronic music; he has collaborated with Aphex Twin and Jonny Greenwood.

He has led both Polish and foreign orchestras (including the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ensemble Modern). In addition to directing AUKSO – the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, he is the artistic supervisor of the Elbląg Chamber Orchestra.

He has conducted in Europe, Asia, South America and recently also in North America, in New York’s Carnegie Hall (the ‘Głosy Gór’ concert [Voices of the Mountains]). The artist has performed at leading Polish contemporary music festivals, for example, the Sacrum Profanum in Cracow, the Warsaw Autumn, the Festival of Premieres, the Polish Modern Music in Katowice; with AUKSO, he is a regular guest of the Cracow Film Music Festival.

Marek Moś has received numerous awards, for example, in the Contemporary Music Competition in Cracow, at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, of the Polish Composers’ Union, a Coryphaeus of Polish Music, a Silver Medal ‘For Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis’, an award of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship and several Fryderyks. In 2009, he received the honorary citizenship of the City of Tychy.

In addition to his busy concert and recording schedule, he lectures at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.