About

Zofia Kiniorska is a Polish conductor. She began her music education at the age of six, majoring in piano. In 2021, Zofia earned her Master of Arts degree in Symphony and Opera Conducting from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland.

In the 2022/2023 artistic season, Zofia served as Resident conductor of Sinfonia Varsovia as part of the scholarship program of the Polish National Institute of Music and Dance.In 2020, she won the 2nd Prize and the Special Award from the chamber orchestra at the 3rd Adam Kopyciński National Competition for Students of Conducting in Wrocław, Poland.

Two years later, in 2022, she was invited to participate in the Conductor’s Academy with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, where she received the Audience Award. On December 31, 2022, she made her debut at the Warsaw Philharmonic, conducting the New Year’s Eve Concert with soprano Iwona Sobotka.

She was also a semifinalist in the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition with the London Symphony Orchestra in March 2023, as well as in the Premio Guido Cantelli 2022 in Turin, Italy. In July 2023, she advanced to the second stage of The Mahler ompetition as one of nine contestants. She further developed her skills at the Gstaad Conducting Academy in 2023.

In June 2024, she took part in the Ammodo Conducting Masterclass with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Paavo Järvi.Zofia Kiniorska has conducted various orchestras, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra in Łódź,and the Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra. She also worked with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) in Katowice during the first edition of a masterclasswith Marin Alsop in 2021.

She has actively participated in masterclasses led by Paavo Järvi, Marin Alsop, Johannes Schlaefli, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Neeme Järvi, Jaap van Zweden, and Alan Gilbert. She has also worked as an assistant conductor with Marek Janowski, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Marta Gardolińska, Dirk Vermeulen, and Jacek Kaspszyk.Additionally, she served as assistant conductor for productions of the Polish National Ballet under Patrick Fournillier and Marta Kluczyńska.

In the 2023/24 artistic season, she assisted Maestro Jacek Kaspszyk in preparing the premiere production of Verdi’s Otello, directed by David Pountney, at the Poznań Opera House.Since 2022, she has been conducting the Symphony Orchestra of ZPSM1 in Warsaw.