Borzym jr, Andrzej International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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is a conductor, composer and arranger. He graduated from Ryszard Dudek’s symphonic and opera conducting class at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He also studied composition with Zbigniew Bagiński and at a course led by Sir Colin Davis. 

He is the conductor of the Chamber Choir of the Collegium Musicum of the University of Warsaw, and conductor and artistic director of the choir Pośrodku Żywota, as well as founder and manager of the Tempus early music vocal quartet. 

In 2012–16 he worked as the manager of the Vocal Ensemble of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, with which he notably performed the complete stage works of Mozart. In 2017–19 he was conductor of the Tadeusz Sygietyński State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble “Mazowsze.” 

He has worked with many orchestras such as Slovenian National Opera Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony, Vilnius Sinfonietta, National Polish Radio Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Toruń Symphony, Elbląg Chamber, the Gorzów, Szczecin, Częstochowa, Lublin, Katowice, Rzeszów, and Gdańsk philharmonics, Sinfonia Iuventus, and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music Symphony Orchestra. 

He has cooperated with notable soloists including Terence Blanchard, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Krzysztof Herdzin, Piotr Wojtasik, Maciej Sikała, Michał Wróblewski, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Kuba Badach, and Janusz Radek on jazz and pop music concerts. He has given concerts in many countries around the world, including Austria, Chile, Egypt, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Hungary, Iceland, Lithuania, Slovakia, France and Italy. Andrzej Borzym Jr is also active as an arranger and composer. Albums by the proMODERN Vocal Sextet of Contemporary Music with his compositions have won four Fryderyk awards.