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3. July, 2026
Jakub Przybycień tops Mahler Competition
Bamberger Symphoniker announced their winner of the 2026 Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition. Jakub Przybycień was awarded Second Prize as well as the Audience Prize, voted for by the listeners. In addition to the monetary prize, Jakub receives a number of performance opportunities with the orchestra.
For the final round, Jakub conducted the Bamberger Symphoniker in selections from Thomas Adès’ Suite from Powder Her Face, Bartók’s Dance Suite, and Mahler’s Symphony No.5.
Jakub Hrůša, Chief Conductor of the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jury Member said, "We are very happy to have awarded second prize in the latest edition of the Mahler Competition to Jakub Przybycien, a wonderful young Polish colleague who convinced the jury throughout the entire competition. The jury assessed not only the final concert, but the whole process: his development, musicality, potential, and ability to work with the orchestra. In this respect, second prize was the appropriate recognition of an outstanding overall performance.”
10. February, 2026
Boston Symphony Orchestra Names Jakub Przybycień as New Assistant Conductors
Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons and the BSO have announced Yiran Zhao and Jakub Przybycień as the orchestra’s new Assistant Conductors starting with the 2026–27 season for two-year terms. They succeed Samy Rachid and Anna Handler, whose tenures will end at the conclusion of the Tanglewood season this summer. Both Zhao and Przybycień will make their BSO conducting debuts as Assistant Conductor during the 2027 Tanglewood season.
“The Assistant Conductors are an important part of our musical community here, and I’m very pleased to welcome Yiran and Jakub to our BSO family beginning this fall,” said BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons. “The orchestra and I were very impressed with the high level of all the finalists at this round of auditions, where Yiran and Jakub showed an especially strong connection with the orchestra as well as mature technique. I look forward to working with them both in the coming years.”
06. November, 2025
Jakub Przybycień receives the Ernst-von-Schuch-Prize 2025
Jakub Przybycień, impressed the jury with his “excellent baton technique, profound knowledge of the score, and expressive gestures,” said Martina Damm, spokesperson for the family foundation and great-granddaughter of conductor Ernst von Schuch.
The prizewinner was selected during the preliminary conducting round for the second funding level of the Forum Dirigieren in May 2025 with the Brandenburg State Orchestra by a five-member jury chaired by Lutz Rademacher, together with Martina Damm, from among six candidates.
07. April, 2025
Jakub Przybycień has been selected as one of the 3 finalists of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award 2025
Jakub Przybycień will conduct the YCA Award Concert during the Salzburger Festspiele 2025
17. April, 2024
Semifinalist of The Malko Competition 2024
Jakub Przybycień has been selected as one of the 6 semi-finalists of The Malko Competition for Young Conductors 2024.
23. March, 2023
Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition 2023: Finalist and winner of audience prize
Jakub Przybycień conducts London Symphony Orchestra in an exciting program: the famed Prelude from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Grieg's spirited Peer Gynt suites, and programmatic masterpiece that is Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.
