In September 2025 Krzysztof Urbanski entered the second season of his tenures as Music & Artistic Director of the Filharmonia Narodowa and as Chief Conductor of the Berner Symphonieorchester. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (since 2022).

Krzysztof Urbanski appeared as a guest conductor with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony among others.

Krzysztof Urbanski served as Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (2011-2021) and as Chief Conductor and Artistic Leader of the Trondheim Symfoniorkester og Opera (2010 -2017). In 2017 he was appointed Honorary Guest Conductor of the Trondheim Symfoniorkester og Opera. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony (2012-2016) and Principal Guest Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester (2015-2021).

In 2007 Krzysztof Urbanski was awarded the First Prize in the Prague Spring Conducting Competition and in 2015 he received the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

With the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester he recorded albums of Lutosławski’s works, Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Strauss’ works; all on Alpha Classics. His discography also includes Chopin’s small pieces for piano and orchestra with Jan Lisiecki and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon which received an ECHO Klassik Award and Martinu’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Sol Gabetta and the Berliner Philharmoniker recorded for Sony.