Agata Zając

Agata Zając is a Polish symphonic and opera conductor. She started her musical path as a violinist, and then completed her conducting studies at the Poznań Academy of Music.Currently, she is a D.A. student at the Academy of Music in Krakow under the guidance of Łukasz Borowicz.

Since 2018, as an assistant conductor she has been collaborating with Warsaw Chamber Opera in premieres of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serai, Idomeneo and Halka of Stanislaw Moniuszko. In 2019 she was assisting to Greek conductor Michalis Economou in his international projects with Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Greek National Radio Orchestra and Athens Philharmonia Orchestra. During her short career she had an opportunity to conduct also Grazer Philharmoniker, Orchestre national de Metz, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, Schumann Youth Orchestra and Archetti Chamber Orchestra. She is a former Resident Conductor of the Toruń Symphony Orchestra and the Sudeten Philharmonic.

She participated in many international conducting masterclasses – with Jaap van Zweden, Johannes Schlaefli, Peter Eötvös, Marin Alsop, David Reiland, Gregory Vajda as teachers. During the summer 2021 she was an active student of the Gstaad Conducitng Academy. She is invited to many international competitions and auditions – at most of them she reached the finals and received special distinctions at Malta International Conducting Masterclass & Competition and International Conducting Competition Città di Brescia.