Marek Janowski Click here for photographs Download Maestro Janowski's biography (MS Word) About the PSO's Artistic Leadership Team Endowed Guest Conductor Chair Marek Janowski first established himself as a major conductor when he was Music Director at Freiburg and at Dortmund Opera (1973-79). He was then appointed Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (1983-1986) and in 1984, Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. In the sixteen years he was in Paris, Janowski transformed the orchestra into an ensemble of international standing. From 1986-1990, Janowski was also Music Director of the Gurzenich Orchestra, Cologne. Recognised as one of the great architects of the music world and capable of training and building an orchestra to new heights, Maestro Janowski was appointed Artistic Director of the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in January 1999 and in 2000 this role was expanded to Music Director and Chief Conductor. Since he has been there, he has created an orchestra of great strength and artistic merit. In October 2001 Maestro Janowski was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Radio Symphony Berlin (RSB). Marek Janowski is now the only German conductor working as a titled conductor of one of the Berlin orchestras. A recent project with the RSB has been the exploraton of the great violin concerti of the 20th century – Berg, Bartok, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Hindemith and Britten, coupled with the great symphonies of Beethoven. In September 2004 he was announced as Endowed Guest Conductor Chair for the Pittsburgh Symphony, part of a triumvirate of conductors leading this very important American orchestra. October 2005 he conducted his first concerts as the new Music Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse-Romande in Geneva, Switzerland. February 2006 will mark a two week visit to the Minnesota Orchestra for a Brahms cycle followed by an appearance in March 2006 with the San Francisco Symphony and a week with the Pittsburgh Symphony in his new position. Marek Janowski has conducted many of the great orchestras and leading opera companies of the world, among them: Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Staatskapelle, NDR Hamburg, Tonhalle, the Oslo Philharmonic and the Philharmonia (London). He has also collaborated successfully with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Munich Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony and in the opera houses of Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, San Francisco, Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera. Janowski is a noted recording artist and his Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Dresden Staatskapelle has been highly acclaimed for many years. Similarly, his recordings of Strauss’ Die Schweigsame Frau for EMI and Penderecki’s The Devil of Loudun for Philips are also highly regarded. With the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, he recorded Bruckner Symphony No. 4 and 6, Wagner excerpts, a highly commended version of Turangalila, and the four symphonies by Roussel which was awarded Diapason D'Or in February 1996. For BMG, Janowski recorded a complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle with the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Gerhard Oppitz, and the operas of Weber with the DSO Berlin. Mr. Janowski’s most recent recording of Strauss’s The Four Last Songs, with soprano Soile Isokoski on Ondine, was chosen as Editor’s Choice Award at The Gramophone Awards (London, October 2002).