Jakub Montewka

25, Poland

Jakub Montewka is assistant conductor of the Opole Philharmonic in the 2022-2023 season. He is now in the final year of his Masters Conducting studies with Paweł Przytocki at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London (Composition, 2016-2018) and at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (Composition and Conducting, 2018-2020).

Jakub Montewka is a finalist of Bartók World Competition 2020 Composers Competition and the 7th Witold Lutosławski Competition for Young Conductors. In 2019 he conducted the premiere recording of Maat's Feather by Marcin Jachim, as a part of the CD debut of the Chopin University Modern Ensemble, nominated to the prestigious FRYDERYK 2021 award.

His calendar for the current season includes concerts with the Opole Philharmonic, the Łódź Philharmonic and the Gdańsk Philharmonic.

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