WTymoteusz "Timothee" Adamowski was a Polish-born American conductor, composer, and violinist. Born in Warsaw, he studied in that city's conservatory, later moving on to further studies in Paris. He served as the first conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Tymoteusz was the uncle of Polish Olympic hockey player Tadeusz Adamowski and the humanitarian Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni.
WGeorge Andreani was a Polish composer, film score composer, pianist, conductor, and actor. He was noted for his scores of some 75 Argentine films during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema from 1937 to 1959. Aside from his prolific work as a score composer, he was also conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Schenley in the 1940s.
WStanisław Barcewicz was a noted Polish violinist, conductor and teacher. Although his repertoire included almost all of the classical and romantic violin literature, he was valued primarily for his interpretations of works by Henryk Wieniawski and Felix Mendelssohn. He also premiered works by his teacher Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, including the Polish premiere of the Violin Concerto in D. He played on a Guadagnini violin.
WZygmunt Białostocki was a Polish Jewish musician. He composed many popular Polish pre-war songs, and worked as conductor and a première pianist in Warsaw between the World Wars.
WKrzysztof Czerwinski (born January 13, 1980 is a Polish conductor, organist and voice teacher.
WHenryk Czyż was a Polish musician with a high reputation for conducting and teaching.
WAgnieszka Duczmal – is a Polish conductor and founder of the Poznań Amadeus Orchestra. She has graduated from Academy of Music in Poznań. Still a student, she founded a chamber orchestra in 1968. 1971-1972 she was hired as assistant to the conductor at the Poznań Philharmonic.
WGrzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.
WTomasz Golka is a Polish-American conductor and composer. Golka is the son of pianist Anna Karczewska-Golka and trombonist George Golka. His younger brother Adam Golka is a pianist.
WKonstanty Antoni Gorski was a Polish composer, violinist, organist and music teacher.
WMarek Janowski is a Polish-born German conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic.
WMieczysław Karłowicz was a Polish composer and conductor.
WPaul Kletzki was a Polish conductor and composer.
WJan Krenz was a Polish composer and orchestra conductor.
WKarol Kazimierz Kurpiński was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue.
WKarol Józef Lipiński was a Polish music composer and virtuoso violinist active during the partitions of Poland. The Karol Lipiński University of Music in Wrocław, Poland is named after him.
WJan Adam Maklakiewicz was a Polish composer, conductor, critic, and music educator. His most known compositions belong to the choral music.
WJerzy Jan Maksymiuk is a Polish composer, pianist and orchestra conductor.
WHenryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.
WFranciszek (also spelled Franz) Wincenty Mirecki (1791–1862) was a Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher.
WEmil Szymon Młynarski was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue.
WStanisław Moniuszko was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since the 1990s Stanisław Moniuszko is being recognized in Belarus as an important figure of Belarusian culture. Moniuszko's operas are regularly performed at the Belarusian National Opera. There is a Museum of Stanisław Moniuszko.
WZygmunt Noskowski was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher.
WFeliks Nowowiejski was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg in Warmia in the Prussian Partition of Poland. He died in Poznań, Poland.
WHenryk Opieński was a Polish composer, violinist, teacher, administrator and musicologist. His writings on, and collected letters by, Frédéric Chopin, were considered of paramount importance in Chopin studies of the time.
WJózef Ozimiński was a Polish violinist and conductor.
WSir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. After his increasing frustration with the extra-musical demands made on him by the country's regime, he defected to the United Kingdom in 1954, and took up British citizenship. In 1957, he became chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a post he relinquished after two years to devote all his time to composition.
WKlaudia Pasternak is a Polish contemporary composer and opera conductor, who has twice been nominated for the prestigious Paszport Polityki.
WKrzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor. Among his best known works are Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St. Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. Penderecki composed four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.
WJan Pogány is a Polish classical composer, conductor and cellist. His music adopts the romantic style and is a symbiosis of the modern form of romantic harmony and lyrical melodic line.
WSimon Pullman was a violinist, conductor, music teacher and founder and Director of the Pullman Ensemble and Orchestra, and a seminal figure in the evolution of chamber music performance.
WWładysław Raczkowski was a Polish conductor and composer.
WWojciech Rajski is a Polish conductor, and the founder and current Artistic Director of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot. His recordings can be heard on such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, Dux Records, and EMI Classics.
WArtur Rodziński was a Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music. He is especially noted for his tenures as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic in the 1930s and 1940s.
WWitold Rowicki was a Polish conductor. He held principal conducting positions with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
WAndrzej Rozbicki, also known as Andrew Rozbicki, is a Polish-Canadian conductor, music educator, producer and promoter of Polish music in Canada and United States. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Celebrity Symphony Orchestra. He is a Music Educator with Toronto Catholic District School Board.
WWitold Rudziński was a Polish composer, conductor, and author.
WAdolf Rzepko was a Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor, and pianist.
WPiotr Salaber – composer, conductor and pianist, „one of the most interesting Polish composers of theatre music” Graduated from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, first - getting his master's degree in choral conducting under prof. H. Gostomski, and later from the Faculty of Composition, and Theory of Music; he earned a doctorate in musical arts in conducting (2005), habilitation in 2012, since 2013 - professor of the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz
WRobert Satanowski was a Polish general who later became a major European orchestra and opera conductor.
WStanislaw Pawel Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.
WDaniel Stabrawa is a Polish violinist and conductor.
WEwa Strusińska - Polish conductor, General Music Director of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau and Principal Conductor of the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie in Germany. Former Music Director and Principal Conductor of Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, first became known to the artistic world as a laureate and prize winner at the prestigious Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg.
WKarol Stryja was a Polish conductor and teacher.
WJanina Strzembosz was a Polish dancer, choreographer, teacher, publicist, pianist, conductor and director, and one of the most acclaimed personas in Polish dance of the 20th century. A pupil of Isadora Duncan, Strzembosz herself taught several generations of dancers, choreographers and dance instructors.
WIgnatz Waghalter was a Polish-German composer and conductor.
WBolesław Wallek-Walewski was a Polish composer and conductor, lecturer and Director of the Conservatory of Music in Kraków.
WStanisław Wisłocki was a Polish conductor of classical music who performed and recorded with many internationally renowned orchestras, ensembles and virtuoso musicians and is highly regarded for his interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Tchaikovsky.
WAntoni Wit is a Polish conductor, composer, lawyer and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Between 2002–2013, he served as the artistic director of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.
WAleksander Zarzycki was a Polish pianist, composer and conductor. Author of piano and violin compositions, mazurkas, polonaises, krakowiaks, and songs.