Alexander Humala
Conductor and music life organiser, artistic director of the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Krakow since 2021. He graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk and Rotterdams Conservatorium. His accolades include first prizes in the 4th Jāzeps Vītols International Choral Conductors Competition in Riga (2009) and the 5th International Choir Conducting Competition ‘Towards Polyphony’ in Wrocław (2011), where he also won three other awards.
Humala has collaborated with such eminent composers as Krzysztof Penderecki, Paweł Mykietyn, Ståle Kleiberg, and Elliot Goldenthal. He was an assistant conductor to such conducting icons as Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Lorin Maazel, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Christoph Eschenbach, Antoni Wit, Martyn Brabbins, and Alexander Raskatov. He held the same post with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. He also conducted the Belorussian Capella Sonorus and the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as guest conducting Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Trondheim Symfoniorkester, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra of Lviv National Philharmonic, the Transylvanian State Philharmonic Orchestra in Cluj-Napoca, and the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra.
Humala’s concerts and recordings have been broadcast by Mezzo, Arte TV, TVP Kultura, and Polish Radio Channel Two. 45 46 PL EN