Agata Zając
is a Polish symphonic and opera conductor. She
started her musical path as a violinist, and
then completed her conducting studies at the
Poznań Academy of Music in Poland. In the last
artistic season, Agata was the Mills Williams
Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal
Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Agata is a former Resident Conductor of the
Toruń Symphony Orchestra (2020/21) and Sudeten
Philharmonic Orchestra (2021/22) in Poland. She
has already worked with many international
orchestras, including BBC Philharmonic,
Manchester Camerata, Britten Sinfonia, Grazer
Philharmoniker, Orchestre national de Metz,
Malmö Opera, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra,
Athens Philharmonia, NOSPR in Katowice, Poznań
Philharmonic, Opole Philharmonic and Zielona
Góra Philharmonic. From 2018 to 2019, she was an
assistant conductor in Warsaw Chamber Opera and
worked on the premieres of Mozart’s Die
Entführung aus dem Serai, Idomeneo and Halka of
Stanislaw Moniuszko.
Agata participated in many conducting
masterclasses and was mentored by prominent
teachers such as Paavo Järvi, Jorma Panula,
Johannes Schlaefli, Mark Heron, Peter Eötvös,
Antony Hermus, Marin Alsop, and Peter Eötvös.
She spent the last summer at the Tanglewood
Music Festival as a Conducting Fellow working
under the guidance of Andris Nelsons, music
director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Agata
was also a student of the Tonhalle Conductors’
Academy 2022/23, Gstaad Conducting Academy 2021
and NOSPR Conducting Academy 2021.
She was invited to many international
competitions and auditions – at the beginning of
2023 she was awarded 2nd prize and audience vote
at the Siemens Hallé International Conductors
Competition. Moreover, she received special
distinctions at the Malta International
Conducting Masterclass & Competition (2018) and
International Conducting Competition Città di
Brescia (2021). She also participated in the
last Donatella Flick Conducting Competition,
where she reached the semi-finals and had the
opportunity to rehearse with London Symphony
Orchestra. In 2018 Agata was awarded with a
scholarship of the Minister of Culture and
National Heritage in Poland.
In the 2023/24 season Agata Zając is the
Assistant Conductor of Ludovic Morlot in the
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.