Zbigniew Graca

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Zbigniew Graca (born April 21, 1953 ) is a Polish conductor.

Graca had violin lessons at the music school in Ełk and later in Bialystok and was already performing in concerts and on the radio during this time. He then studied violin with Tadeusz Wroński and conducting with Stanisław Wisłocki at the Warsaw Music Academy and completed his training as a conductor with Franco Ferrara in Siena and Rafael Kubelík in Lucerne. He won first prizes at the conducting competitions in Copenhagen, Katowice and Vienna.

From 1975 to 1980 Graca was conductor of the radio orchestra in Warsaw, then concertmaster and conductor of the Aachen symphony orchestra . From 1985 to 1988 he was chief conductor of the Royal Copenhagen Opera , and in the 1989/90 season artistic director of the Wroclaw State Opera . From 1992 to 1995 he was guest conductor at the Poznan Opera, and since 1989 he has been a conductor at the Warsaw Chamber Opera .

Graca co-founded the annual Mozart Festival in Warsaw in 1991. He performs regularly in Scandinavia, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Lithuania and Latvia, Japan and the United States, in Israel since 1985 and in Ankara since 1998. Since 1999 he has been working with the Latvian National Opera .

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SURNAME Graca, Zbigniew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1953