Award-winning conductor Marzena Diakun came to international acclaim in Paris in the 2015/16 season after several concerts with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Future engagements include the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Geneva, the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the National Orchestras of Metz and Bordeaux and Orchestre Pasdeloup in France, the Hamburg, Bremen and Stuttgart Philharmonics and the Nordwestdeutsche and Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern in Germany.
Diakun is a dedicated supporter of contemporary music and has premiered numerous works with different ensembles. In 2016, she gave the Polish premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera Lost Highway, as a part of the New Horizons Festival in Wrocław.
In 2015, she was a recipient of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood Music Festival, and won the Marin Alsop’s Taki Concordia Fellowship.