The Polish conductor Jakub Przybycień has been assistant conductor to Ludovic Morlot at the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya since the start of the 2023/24 season. Since 2023 he is also chief conductor of the Zürcher Orchester Sozietät. He has worked with renowned ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź. His recent conducting debuts have included performances with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and the Filharmonia Opolska.
An accomplished violinist, Jakub Przybycień initially studied at the University of the Arts in Bern, played in the European Union Youth Orchestra and worked with leading conductors such as Bernard Haitink and Manfred Honeck. He completed his Master’s degree in Zurich under the direction of Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller. He has also refined his technique in masterclasses with much-admired conductors such as Marin Alsop, Peter Eötvös, Thomas Hengelbrock, Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Jorma Panula, Michael Sanderling and Jaap van Zweden.
Jakub Przybycień is a finalist of the 2024/25 International Conducting Competition Rotterdam (ICCR) and in 2024 was a semi-finalist in the Malko Competition, in which he conducted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. In 2021 he was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize of the Gstaad Conducting Academy.
