The Cairo Symphony Orchestra is preparing to perform a special concert as part of the World’s Greatest Symphonies series.
The concert will be led by Polish Maestro Jan Miłosz Zarzycki and will feature pianist Seif Eldin Sherif. It will take place on Saturday, February 15th, at the Small Hall of the Cairo Opera House.
Jan Miłosz Zarzycki is one of the most prominent orchestra conductors in Poland and serves as the artistic and managing director of the Witold Lutosławski Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice, specializing in violin performance, and received a distinguished diploma in orchestral conducting from the Academy of Music in Wrocław. He continued his studies in Vienna and Berlin.
Miłosz won first prize in the First National Competition for Orchestra Conductors named after Witold Lutosławski and won third prize in the Seventh International Competition for Orchestra Conductors “Arturo Toscanini,” which led him to a musical tour with the Toscanini Symphony Orchestra. He has led the most prominent Polish orchestras and performed in more than 15 countries, and has recorded 17 musical albums, one of which won the “Fryderyk” award in 2019. He received the “Gloria Artis” Medal for Cultural Merit and awards from the Polish Minister of Culture and the Podlasie Voivode, and his career culminated in 2014 with the granting of the title “Professor of Musical Arts” by presidential decree.
