Marta Gardolińska is Musical Director of the Opéra national de Lorraine and Principal Guest Conductor of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. She rose to world fame in 2018 as Young Conductor in Association at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducting two highly successful concerts. This led to a Dudamel Fellowship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the 2019-2020 season, with an invitation to be second conductor to Gustavo Dudamel for their Grammy award-winning live Deutsche Grammophon recording of Ives’ Symphony No. 4.  

This season Marta’s debuts include Kammerorchester Potsdam, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony. Marta also returns to the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife after opening their last season, and will conduct performances of The Creation with Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.

Other 2021-2022 debuts included concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, as well as her Paris debut with the Orchestre Chambre de Paris, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

She is also active in the field of opera. In the 2020-2021 season she made her hugely successful French debut with Opéra national de Lorraine conducting a new production of Zemlinsky’s Der Traumgörge and in productions of Messager’s Fortunio in Nancy and at Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg conducting Carmen with Stéphanie d’Oustrac. In the 2022-2023 season she conducted a  new production of Manru by Paderewski and a revival of La Traviata. From 2013-2015 she was second conductor with the company Johann–Strauss–Operette Wien, a pure Viennese musical tradition.

Marta studied conducting at the Frederic Chopin Music University of Warsaw, and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2016, Marta was awarded the title ‘Outstanding Pole in Austria’ for her efforts in popularising Polish culture and music abroad.