Marzena Diakun
Conductor
Conductor
Biography
“Conducting means shaping the music; it’s not about counting ‘one-two-three’, but about inspiring the musicians.” Marzena Diakun
From the 2026/2027 season, Marzena Diakun is Principal Conductor of the Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra in Koblenz.
In her interpretations, the Polish conductor Marzena Diakun achieves a sense of intensity from the very first note right through to the very last. Her most recent CD recordings, featuring choral works by Brahms and music by contemporary Polish female composers, bear witness to her inspiring collaboration with musicians and singers, as well as her immense expertise in the field of contemporary repertoire, which is also reflected in her collaboration with the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
Marzena Diakun is regarded as a specialist in the great composers of her homeland: Penderecki, Lutosławski, Karlowicz, Górecki and Szymanowski. She is highly regarded as a performer of the choral and orchestral works of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Shostakovich. The French and Bohemian repertoires are also in capable hands with her. Marzena Diakun studied at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Today, she herself works as a professor and mentor at the Wrocław Academy of Music. Her mentors included such luminaries as Kurt Masur, David Zinman, Pierre Boulez and Marin Alsop.
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