Dawid Runtz
Conductor

Biography

Chief Conductor at the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra since January 2021 for three upcoming seasons and Principal Conductor
at the Polish Royal Opera since 2017, Dawid is increasingly recognised internationally for his impeccable, elegant technique, thorough command of complex scores, extraordinary sensitivity, effective communication, and uniquely evocative performances.

Warsaw-based Polish conductor made his conducting debut in 2016 with the Orchestra of the Warsaw Philharmonic after graduating from the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in the class of Maestro Antoni Wit. He has been in high demand as a guest conductor with majority of Poland’s finest orchestras since, and has established a reputation as one of the most charismatic conductors to emerge
in this part of Europe in recent years.

Future highlights as guest conductor feature invitations from Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra, Kraków Philharmonic, Opera Nova Bydgoszcz.

Most notable among Dawid’s guest conducting projects to date include a successful Japanese debut with the Pacific Festival Orchestra in Sapporo, conducting Strauss’s Don Juan at the closing concert, a tour of Lithuania with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence with the repertoire of Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra, Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7, the opening concert of the Krzysztof Penderecki Festival with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the composer’s 85th birthday, and a concert with the same orchestra at the 10. La Folle Journée festival, as well as engagements with Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Polish Radio Orchestra, among others.

As an opera conductor, Dawid made a noted debut in 2015 with the production of Dariusz Przybylski’s Orphee at the Warsaw Chamber Opera. Also that year, he commenced his 3-year cooperation with the Grand Theatre - National Opera in Warsaw, where he assisted in the productions of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte, Verdi’s Nabucco and a ballet performance The Tempest with music by Henry Purcell, Thomas Tallis, Robert Johnson, Matthew Locke, Michel van der Aa.

His current tenure at the Polish Royal Opera sees Dawid leading two new productions per season and appearing regularly in the Opera’s symphonic concert series. His repertoire there has included premiers of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro,
Così fan tutte, La finta giardiniera and performances of Moniuszko’s The Hounted Manor.

Past achievements that have built up Dawid’s distinctive conducting craft include participation in the 2. edition of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy (2016), where he worked on Verdi’s La Traviata under the watchful eye of Ricardo Muti himself, as the youngest of four carefully selected participants. He also took part in the prestigious masterclass with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam led by Daniele Gatti (2017), conducting Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and  Stravinsky’s Petrushka.  

Dawid has also worked with the prominent film score composer, Zbigniew Preisner, on recording music for Valley of Shadows (Jonas 2017, dir. Matzow Gulbrandsen), Lian Qu 1980 (2020, dir. Feng Mei) and Man of God (2020, dir. Yelena Popovic).

Dawid is a lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw where he has recently obtained his doctoral degree in Musical Arts: Conducting.

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