Kiniorska has been selected from a pool of 60 candidates. She will work closely with the orchestra’s music director Jonathan Nott in preparing concerts, opera performances and tours during the 2024/2025 season.
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is the premier symphony orchestra of French-speaking Switzerland and the principal orchestra of the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Kiniorska, 27, studied piano performance before she graduated in conducting from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
She regularly takes part in master classes, including those given by the likes of Marin Alsop, Carlo Montanaro and George Tchitchinadze.
Kiniorska has already worked with various symphony orchestras. She served as assistant conductor of Poland's Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra in the 2022/2023 season. Last year, she was a semifinalist of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London.
In June, she is due to take part in the International Conducting Competition in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
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