Conductor. Artistic director of the Polish Radio Orchestra since 2007. He studied in the class of Bogusław Madey at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, from which he also obtained his PhD in conducting under Antoni Wit's supervision. In 2005-06 he worked as assistant to Kazimierz Kord at the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera, where he debuted as an opera conductor with Mozart's Don Giovanni. At the Teatr Wielki, he has also conducted performances of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Minkus' La Bayadère, In the Land of the Magic Flute with music by Mozart, Bizet's Carmen, and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. He has worked with many great singers, including Ewa Podleś, Piotr Beczała, Mariusz Kwiecień, Samuel Ramey, Sergei Leiferkus. Before that (2002-05), he was assistant to Antoni Wit at the National Philharmonic, and in the 2000/01 season - to Iván Fischer at the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He received many scholarships from the Ministry of Culture, and won prizes at four conducting competitions: in Trent (1999), Athens (2000), Porto (2002), and Bamberg (2004).

   He has conducted many orchestras, including the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Bamberger Symphoniker, I Pomeriggi Musicali (Milan), and the majority of Polish symphony orchestras (including the National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra). His recordings were nominated four times for the Fryderyk Award; a CD with music by Schumann which he conducted won the award in 2007.

   He received a Polityka Passport in January 2008. Prior to taking over as artistic director of the Polish Radio Orchestra, Borowicz worked with this orchestra many times, conducting concerts and recordings. The Polish Radio Orchestra inaugurated the 2007/08 season with a concert version of Verdi's opera Falstaff, and in March 2008, during the 12th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, the orchestra took part in a performance of Cherubini's opera Lodoïska under the artistic supervision of Christa Ludwig.

   He has been the principal guest conductor of the Poznań Philharmonic since 2006; his work there has included conducting Sibelius' Violin Concerto featuring Ida Haendel in the violin solo. Borowicz's collaboration with the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra has resulted in invitations to prestigious projects, including The Train to Kilar's Music, Days of Wojciech Kilar's Music, Budapest 1956 (a concert at the Palace of Arts in Budapest), Music for Prague 1968: Ryszard Siwiec In Memoriam (concert at Prague's Rudolfinum). The 2008/09 season included concerts with the Polish Radio Orchestra at the Krzysztof Penderecki Festival and the 13th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival - the first Polish performance of Louis Spohr's opera Der Berggeist, and premieres of Mozart operas: The Magic Flute at the Teatr Wielki in Łódź, Don Giovanni at the Kraków Opera, and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Polish National Opera.

Photo: M. Kuran