Moś Marek
Conductor, artistic director of the AUKSO chamber orchestra since its foundation and artistic director of the AUKSO Summer Philharmonic festival in Wigry. Polish violinist and chamber musician. He studied in Bytom and Katowice, under Kazimierz Dębicki and Andrzej Grabiec.
Founder and for long-time first violinist of the Silesian String Quartet, which quickly established itself as one of Europe’s finest ensembles. Together with this quartet Marek Moś has performed at important festivals and in prestigious venues in Europe and all over the world, such as the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Concertgebouw and Ijsbreker in Amsterdam, Vredenburg in Utrecht, Schau spielhaus in Berlin, Tivoli in Copenhagen, Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, De Singel in Antwerp, Merkin Hall in New York and Jordan Hall in Boston.
It was also together with the Silesian String Quartet that the artist has performed close to 30 world premieres of contemporary works – some of them dedicated to the ensemble.
Marek Moś has recorded for Polish Radio and TV, as well as for record companies such as CD Accord, Olympia, Patridge, Thesis and Wergo, winning awards such as Polish Phonographic Industry Award Fryderyk 1995 for their Henryk Mikołaj Górecki monographic CD, Fryderyk 1997 for a CD with the quartets of Karol Szymanowski and Witold Lutosławski, which also became “Record of the Year ” by music magazine “Studio”.
Marek Moś himself has received numerous individual awards, including at the Contemporary Music Competition in Cracow (1979), UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1984, 1988) and from the Polish Composers’ Union (1994, 2005). He also received the Gloria Artis silver award from the Minister of Culture (2005), and the Silesian Voivodship Marshall Award (2005), as well as being made Honorary Citizen of the City of Tychy (2009).
Currently, alongside his intense concert activity, Marek Moś is also professor at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice.
