Długosz, Łukasz
has recorded 65 albums, all highly acclaimed by European critics, earning him many prestigious international phonographic awards including several International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), Pizzicato Supersonic Award, Gasteig Musik Preis, and Fryderyk Awards. He has won more than a dozen international competitions, including in Paris, Munich, and Odense. He gives concerts as a soloist and chamber musician, as well as playing with famous orchestras. As a soloist he has performed notably at Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Munich’s Gasteig Carl Orff Saal and Herkulessaal, Poly Theatre in Beijing, Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou, Shanghai Concert Hall, Opera House in Qatar, and the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. He has played under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergev, Jesús López Cobos, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Jan Krenz, Jerzy Semkow, Jacek Kaspszyk, Gabriel Chmura, and Agnieszka Duczmal. He has frequently been invited to perform Krzysztof Penderecki’s Flute Concerto under the composer’s own baton.
He has recorded extensively for the radio, television and radio collections, having frequently been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, NDR, SWR, BR4, Deutschland Radio Kultur, Polish Radio Channel Two, Radio France, and RMF Classic. Over 250 pieces have so far been dedicated to him.
His accolades include the Orpheus Prize of the Polish Musicians’ Association (2016), Honorary Prize of the Polish Composers’ Union, Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award, and the Gloria Artis Medal of Merit to Culture for his cultural activity and for promotion of Polish culture, and the title of Professor of Arts. He heads the flute class at the Music Academy in Gdańsk.