Marzena Diakun Conductor
Marzena Diakun Conductor Born in Poland in 1981, Marzena Diakun has made a name for herself across Europe, particularly in France, following a very successful tenure as Assistant Conductor with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from September 2015 to December 2016. She has since received invitations to conduct the Nordic Chamber Orchestra in Sweden, Göteborg Opera, Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, Orquestra Sinfónica do Estado de São Paulo, Kitchener- Waterloo Symphony Orchestra (Canada) and, in France, Orchestre de Poitou-Charentes, Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National de Lyon (Berlioz & La Chaise-Dieu festivals) and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France she conducted for a subscription series concert in March 2018. Marzena has also worked with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, Jenaer Philharmoniker, Slovenian National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara. Marzena is very active in her home country: she has been engaged to conduct the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, Wroclaw Philharmonic NFM, Krakow Philharmonic, Lodz Philharmonic, Kielce Philharmonic, Silesian Philharmonic and the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestras. She is regularly conducting contemporary music, and has premiered numerous works with both the Smash Ensemble (Spain) and Berg Orchestra (Czech Republic). In 2016, she gave the Polish premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera, Lost Highway, as part of the New Horizons festival in Wroclaw. She will make her debut with Amsterdam-based ensemble, Asko-Schönberg, in April 2019. Among the soloists Marzena Diakun has worked with, one can list Andreas Staier, Ewa Kupiec, cellists Truls Mørk and Daniel Müller-Schott, singers Camilla Nylund, Klaus Florian Vogt, Catherine Wyn- Rogers, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sabine Devieilhe, Jodie Devos, Jean-François Lapointe.
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