conductor
O artyście
Michał Klauza is Artistic Director of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2013–2015 he served as Music Director of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok, He also worked as Associate Conductor of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (2009–2015). In 2004–2008 he served as Associate Conductor of the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff. In 2021, he prepared and conducted the premiere of Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa’s opera Wanda together with the ensembles of the Cracow Opera. In 2019 he prepared and conducted at Polish National Opera in Warsaw first ever Polish production of Britten’s opera Billy Budd, and in 2023 he was invited back to conduct the premiere of a new production of Britten’s Peter Grimes.
He has worked as guest conductor with numerous orchestras in Poland and abroad. Foreign tours have also taken him to France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Armenia, South Korea and the Persian Gulf countries. He has worked closely with the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Poznań Opera, and Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw (1998–2003). From 2016 until February 2022 he was guest conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he conducted performances of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Weinberg’s The Idiot, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Shostakovich’s Katerina Izmailova. He ended his artistic relation with statement after barbarian, Russian military aggression over Ukraine.
He has made numerous recordings for radio and television, including the first ever recording of Szymanowski’s operetta Lottery for Husbands (with the National Polish Radio SO), released by Polish Radio and nominated for the Fryderyk 2019 award. Under his direction, Polish Radio has released, among others, Szymanowski’s opera Hagith recorded with the Polish Radio Orchestra (Fryderyk 2020 in the category Album of the Year, Oratorio and Opera Music), Henryk Wars’ symphonic works, Moniuszko’s Masses and the album Music of Polish Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries. He has recorded numerous film scores, including for the award-winning film EO by Jerzy Skolimowski.
Michał Klauza is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied conducting with Ryszard Dudek. He developed his skills as a postgraduate student of Ilya Musin at the Rimski-Korsakov Conservatory in St Petersburg. Since 2020, he has been pursuing a teaching career as a member of conducting faculty at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.