Polish conductor, born in Warsaw, Poland, Martyna Szymczak will serve as Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva for the 2026/27 season.
Since completing her master’s degree in conducting, she has worked extensively in the field of opera. Shortly after graduating from the Chopin University of Music, she was invited to take up the position of Assistant Conductor at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, where she collaborated with the company for five years. As a guest conductor, she leads performances of the staged version of Carmina Burana by C. Orff and Così fan tutte by W. A. Mozart.
She subsequently served as Assistant Conductor and Second Conductor at the Göteborgsoperan in Sweden, where she worked for two seasons from 2024 to 2026. There, she conducted numerous performances, including productions of Carmen by G. Bizet, La Bohème and Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini, Die Zauberflöte by W. A. Mozart, and Der Freischütz by C. M. von Weber, among others.
At the same time, she continued to refine her skills through numerous courses and masterclasses. Most recently, she participated in the Fiskars Conducting Masterclass with Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Hannu Lintu. In 2023, she was also a scholar of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, in collaboration with the Jette Parker Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, which enabled her to study with Sian Edwards at Snape Maltings in the UK. Additionally, she has taken part in masterclasses with Johannes Schlaefli, Marin Alsop, and many others.
She is a laureate of both the Special Mention Prize and the Orchestra Prize at the 7th Witold Lutosławski Competition for Young Conductors (2022). She has conducted various orchestras, including the Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia in Katowice, the Orkiestra Opery Narodowej, the Filharmonia Narodowa, the GöteborgsOperans orkester, the Orkiestra Polskiego Radia in Warsaw, the Lietuvos valstybinis simfoninis orkestras, the Filharmonia Zielonogórska, the Filharmonia Swietokrzyska, and the Opera i Filharmonia Podlaska.
