Mateusz Molęda

Mateusz Molęda was born in Dresden, Germany, into a family of musicians. His parents Alicja Borkowska-Molęda (born 1952) and Krzysztof Molęda (born 1953) are both opera singers and sang for more than two decades title and major roles at European opera houses like the Semper Opera House, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Leipzig Opera and the Prague State Opera. Molęda holds the German and Polish citizenship and lives in Hanover, Germany. He is fluent in German, Polish, English, French and Russian.

Molęda started to play the piano at the age of six and studied later at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in the class of Arie Vardi, considered one of the most distinguished piano teachers of the world, who also serves as conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for more than twenty years. He continued his studies in the area of historical keyboard instruments and historical performance practice in cooperation with Zvi Meniker.

Molęda has received important musical impulses from his mentor Marek Janowski, for whom he worked by personal request also as assistant with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. By sharing his varied experiences, Janowski has profoundly influenced Molęda's artistic development in the spirit of the traditional German conducting school.

Molęda conducted for the first time an orchestra at the age of nineteen. He guest-conducted renowned orchestras in more than 10 countries of the world, among others in Germany, Poland, Spain, Denmark, Albania, South Korea, Japan as well as in South Africa. He has worked among others with the London Mozart Players, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, the Nuremberg Symphony,[1] the Jena Philharmonic, the Heidelberg Philharmonic, the Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, the Staatskapelle Schwerin, the Carl Nielsen Academy Orchestra, the Aalborg Symfoniorkester, the Aarhus Symfoniorkester, the Odense Symfoniorkester[2] and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic.[3]

With his performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy at the formal function of the Federal Government on the Day of German Unity on 3 October 2007, Molęda commanded attention throughout Germany. The concert was broadcast live by the German TV channel ZDF with over eight million viewers.[4]

On November 8, 2018, Molęda conducted the world premiere of the Concerto for Hammond organ by Danish composer Anders Koppel, the first composition of this genre ever.[5][6][7]

Numerous radio and television recordings are available, including for BR Klassik, MDR Kultur, DR 2 and MBC.

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