Internationally renowned for his musical knowlegde, immense enthusiasm, as well as being highly valued for his extraordinary charismatic stage presence; "...conductor of a great stature, musically speaking, with a clear beat and marvellous rapport with Orchestra...produced a truly magnificent Viennese sound...with romance and humour in hand..." (Gazzette-USA); with "...precise and clear baton technic as we've ever seen..." (The Washiingtim Times); "...a great Slavic Soul..." (Wiener Zeitung).
Maestro Boguslaw Dawidow has served as General and Music Director of Opole Philharmonic, Poland, since his appointment in September 1999. Maestro Dawidow has been highly involved in forming the artistic shape and raising the international stature of Opole Philharmonic in his capacities as both Music Director and General Director of the Philharmonic.
In 2010 Maestro Boguslaw Dawidow has received a title of Professor.
Since 2008 he cooperates with Columbia Artists Management Inc.
Born in Sopot, Poland, Maestro Dawidow studied conducting under Bohdan Wodiczko(Warsaw) and Krzysztof Missona (Krakow), and later continued his conducting studies in Vienna and Italy. The most significant influence on his musical personality came from legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
In the 1980s Maestro Dawidow founded the Chopin Chamber Orchestra in Krakow, Poland, with which he toured throughout Europe. Between years 1991 and 1995 Bogusław Dawidow was a resident conductor of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 1994 till 2002 served as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Russian National Academic Symphony Orchestra in Tomsk, which is one of Russia’s oldest orchestras established in 1879.They have toured intensive around Europe (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999) and as well in China (1997,1998,1999).
Maestro Boguslaw Dawidow has been cooperated on a regular basis with other orchestras and opera institutions around the world including places such as: Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Rome, Zürich, Moscow, London, Haifa, Leningrad, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Mexico, USA and in the Far East – in Seoul, Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
He has also taken Opole Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra on numerous tours through Europe (Austria , France, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany), two far - reaching tours thorough China (2004, 2005) and tour through South America (2009, 2011) including number of concerts at MusikVerein Golden Hall in Vienna (2008,2009,2010).
In 2011 Maestro Dawidow with his Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, has performed an outstanding and a very successful USA Concert Tour organized by Columbia Artists Management Inc., embracing almost 50 concerts in 19 states – one of the longest tour of any European orchestra. The concert tour has received great public and critical acclaim.
Apart from numerous archive audio and TV recordings, Bogusław Dawidow has also made many CD recordings, among others – recordings of the works of Brahms (Brahms Symphonic Cycle), Tchaikovsky, Szymanowski and Elsner recorded in recent years also with Opole Philharmonic.
Nearest future plans will lead Maestro Dawidowfor concert tours in USA with Israeli Symphony, Portugal Orchestra Norte and Korean Symphony in coming 2013/14/15.
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