Pawel Markowicz

Pawel Markowicz was born in Kraków and grew up in Austria. He studied piano, conducting, composition and music education at the Universities of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and Graz. At the Salzburg Festival he has worked since 2018 on more than twenty-five opera and concert productions as assistant to the choral director and as choral répétiteur. He has worked with artists and ensembles such as Andreas Ottensamer, Thomas Hampson, Helene Fischer, Igudesman & Joo and the Ensemble Kontrapunkte.

As a pianist he gave the first Austrian performance of Philip Glass’s Second Piano Concerto at the Vienna Konzerthaus and performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in the concert Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ Live in Concert. As a soloist he has also performed with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Concert Association and the Synchron Stage Orchestra, and has made guest appearances at venues including the Vienna Musikverein and the Congress Center Villach, and at the Musikwochen Millstatt, the Laxenburger Schlosskonzerte and the Hitomi Memorial Hall in Tokyo.

Since 2014 he has played regularly for the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, including on ‘Hollywood in Vienna’ and the opening concert of Wien Modern under Marin Alsop.

In 2020 he performed his own piano arrangement of Philip Glass’s Eighth Symphony. The piece was recorded and released under the title Symphony for Solo Piano on the label Orange Mountain Music, founded by Philip Glass. Pawel Markowicz’s orchestral arrangements have been performed by ensembles including the Tonkunstler Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2021 Pawel Markowicz has been a lecturer in score-reading in the Department of Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He also works regularly as an assistant director for television and as an editor of contemporary compositions for the music publishers Doblinger and Universal Edition.