Henryk Wojnarowski

Henryk Wojnarowski (born January 16, 1932 ) is a Polish conductor , choir director and music teacher .

Wojnarowski studied conducting with Stanisław Wisłocki at the Warsaw State Music Academy . From 1960 to 1978 he directed the opera choir at the Warschauer Teater Wielki and took part in more than 80 opera performances. He has performed with the National Philharmonic Choir, accompanied by renowned Polish and foreign orchestras in music centers in Poland and abroad (including at La Scala in Milan in 1985, 1990 and 1990, in Munich, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Jerusalem). He worked as a choirmaster with conductors such as Gary Bertini , Sergiu Comissiona , Kazimierz Kord , Jan Krenz , Lorin Maazel , Jerzy Maksymiuk , Zubin Mehta , Seiji Ozawa , Krzysztof Penderecki , Helmuth Rilling , Witold Rowicki , Jerzy Semkow , Giuseppe Sinopoli , Leopoldac Skold , Stanzewski Stokowski , Stanisław Wisłocki, Antoni Wit and Bohdan Wodiczko . He also taught conducting at the Warsaw Music Academy from 1962 to 2002 and directed the Warsaw National Philharmonic from 1978 to 2016 .

He is particularly interested in Penderecki's work. He took part in several Polish and world premieres of his works and was nominated for the Grammy in the category Best Choral Performance several times for recordings of his compositions (1991, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2016), and in 2008 he was the winner of the award. Another Grammy nomination in 2008 brought him the recording of Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater . For the first CD with Stanisław Moniuszko's masses he received the Fryderyk in the category choral music and oratorios in 2009 , for the second CD in 2010 the Golden Orpheus of the Académie du Disque Lyrique . In 2005 he received the Jerzy Kurczewski Prize for Choral Music, and in 2011 he was awarded the Golden Gloria Artis Medal for cultural merit .

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SURNAME	Wojnarowski, Henryk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish conductor, choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 16, 1932