IPA: [maˈtɛuʃ gvizˈdawa]
Australian-Polish conductor-composer based in Helsinki, Finland, Mateusz Gwizdałła (b.1993, he/him) is an alumni of the prestigious Sibelius Academy conducting class under prof. Sakari Oramo, and second prize winner of the 2023 Kodaly International Conducting Competition. A rising talent in the Finnish musical scene, Mateusz has had recent debut performances with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, and Jyväskylä Sinfonia, and in the 2025-2026 season debuts with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and Pori Sinfonietta. Besides Oramo, his teachers have included Johannes Schlaefli, Jorma Panula, Kenneth Montgomery, Martyn Brabbins, Eva Ollikainen, Antony Hermus, Dima Slobodeniouk, Anna-Maria Helsing, Hannu Lintu, Leo McFall, Christoph Altstaedt, Johannes Fritzsch, Luke Dollman and Benjamin Northey, among others.
Beyond Finland, he is the conductor for the Polish pop-folk group Kwiat Jabłoni in their symphonic-scale Przesilenie album and tour, and has worked in Poland at Sinfonia Iuventus, the Szczecin Philharmonic, the Białystok Opera and Philharmonic, and the Szczecin Opera House, where he held a full time position as assistant conductor for two seasons. Mateusz has assisted Sakari Oramo at the Berliner Philharmonie for their performances of Das Lied von der Erde and Mahler’s 10th Symphony in Berlin and at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam. He is also an aspiring pedagogue, recently assisting Titus Engel as a conducting mentor for the International Young Composers Academy in Ticino, Switzerland, with Ensemble Modern.
Mateusz’s artistic background and interests range from cornerstone classical and romantic repertoire to jazz, pop, boundary-crossing and definition-defying contemporary composition. His education reflects this: in Melbourne, Australia he first trained as a classical trumpet player at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, and then attained a double degree Bachelor’s in Jazz Composition and Performing Arts (theatre making) at Monash University. He followed these studies with an MA in Symphonic and Operatic Conducting at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland, under Prof. Monika Wolińska.
