Michał Klauza - NOSPR

Artistic Director of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir.

Artistic Director of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (2015- 2025), Music Director of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok (2013-2015), where, in addition to regular symphonic concerts he prepared several opera productions He also worked as Associate Conductor of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (2009–2015). He served as Associate Conductor of the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (2004–2008).

In 2019 he prepared and conducted at Polish National Opera in Warsaw first ever polish production of opera Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten. In 2023 he returned again to Polish National Opera conducting premiere of Peter Grimes.

In December 2011, he conducted Szymanowski’s King Roger with the National Ukrainian Opera in Kiev as the closing event of the cultural programme of Poland’s presidency in the European Council.

He has worked as guest conductor with numerous orchestras in Poland and abroad, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, most of Polish symphony orchestras, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Orchestre National Capitole de Toulouse, Foreign tours have also taken him to France, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Armenia, Italy, South Korea and the Persian Gulf countries. He has worked closely with the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk and the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz and Opera in Poznań.

From 2016 until February 2022 he was guest conductor at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, where he conducted performances of Donizetti Don Pasquale, Weinberg The Idiot, Tchaikovsky Eugene Oniegin, Schostakovich Katerina Izmailova. He ended his artistic relation with statement after barbarian, russian military agression over Ukraine.

Earlier in his career, in 1998–2003, he worked at the National Opera in Warsaw. He has made numerous recordings for radio and television, including the first ever recording of Szymanowski’s operetta - Lottery for a Husband (with the National Polish Radio SO) and live recording of King Roger (with Warsaw’s National Opera). His recording of Szymanowski’s opera Hagith with Polish Radio SO received prestigious polish music award “Fryderyk” for “The best opera recording in 2020”.

He pursues a teaching career as a member of conducting faculty at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw.

Michał Klauza is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Music University 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 and at international courses in Poland, Italy and Netherlands.