German-Polish conductor Marek Janowski, 81, has extended his contract as Principal Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic by one year until summer 2023. The musicians had accepted his offer with an “overwhelming majority”, the orchestra announced.
Janowski, was already at the helm of the Dresden Philharmonic from 2001 to 2003. At the start of the 2019/2020 concert season, he returned to Dresden in this position and as artistic director. In his long career he was Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.