Antoni Wit (born 1944 in Kraków) is a Polish conductor who studied conducting with Henryk Czyż and composition with Krzysztof Penderecki in Kraków, later working with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and earning a law degree from Jagiellonian University. After serving as Witold Rowicki’s assistant at the Warsaw Philharmonic, he led the Pomeranian Philharmonic (1974–77), the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra and Choir in Kraków (1977–83), the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (1983–2000), and the Warsaw Philharmonic (2002–13), while also working internationally and with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria and Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra. His repertoire ranges from Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, Smetana, Schumann, Mahler and Richard Strauss to 20th-century and contemporary music, with an exceptional commitment to Polish composers including Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Penderecki, Górecki, Karłowicz and Kilar; his extensive discography includes more than 200 recordings and won numerous international awards, including a Grammy in 2013.
