Marek Janowski
Artistic and music director of the Orchestre de la Suisse… Read Full Bio ↴Marek Janowski
Artistic and music director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

The German conductor Marek Janowski studied in Germany and Italy. In his early career he was appointed music director of the opera house in Freiburg im Breisgau and also in Dortmund (1973-1979). Then from 1986 to 1990 he held the same position with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne.
In 1984 Marek Janowski was appointed music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris. During the sixteen years of his term in Paris he transformed the orchestra into an internationally renowned ensemble. Janowski was also principal guest conductor for two years of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin and conducted in opera houses throughout the world (Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Paris, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and elsewhere). From 2000 to 2005 he was artistic and music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo and in the same period, from 2002 held the post of music director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Marek Janowski has worked closely with the symphony orchestras of Boston and Pittsburgh, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the radio orchestras of Hamburg and Denmark as well as the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. He has also enjoyed considerable success with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of NHK Tokyo and with the Orchestre de Paris.
Marek Janowski’s recordings include Wagner’s Ring with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Weber’s Euryanthe and Richard Strauss’s Die schweigsame Frau. Janowski has recorded Bruckner’s 4th and 6th symphonies and a highly acclaimed version of Messiaen’s ‘Turangalîlâ’ Symphony with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Janowski’s recording of Roussel’s four symphonies was awarded the Diapason d’or in February 1996.
Marek Janowski has been artistic director since September 2004, and since 1 September 2005 also music director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.