Poland’s most versatile orchestra!

Two Golden and one Platinum Record; the Fryderyk Award of the Polish Phonographic Academy and as many as 9 Fryderyk nominations; the prestigious French award – Golden Orpheus 2015. Chopin’s music in their interpretations was taken into space on board the Endeavour space shuttle. The orchestra has taken part in recordings of albums by Poland’s greatest artists and toured Europe with YES. These are just some of the successes that have brought recognition to the excellent Sinfonia Viva orchestra.

Founded in 1998 on the initiative of Tomasz Radziwonowicz – violinist, soloist, chamber musician, arranger, composer and conductor – the Orchestra has participated in such major events as the new production of Maurice Durufle’s Requiem with the Deutsch-Französischer Chor Berlin under Brian Kruse Smith,
a concert in Nuremberg for the 10th anniversary of the Polish–German Treaty
of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation, as well as the prestigious Menuhin Festival Gstaad (Switzerland).

The Orchestra has been awarded two Golden Records (both for the series Great Composers of Film Music: CDs with music by Waldemar Kazanecki and Krzysztof Komeda) as well as a Platinum award for The Most Beautiful Polish Love Songs.
In 2015 its album with Pasquale Anfossi’s Oratorio La morte di San Filippo Neri (2014) received the prestigious Golden Orpheus – Orphée d’Or, Grand Prix of the French Academie du Disque Lyrique.

Sinfonia VIVA can also be heard on many albums recorded by eminent Polish artists, such as 3 and 4 by Andrzej Smolik, Uniesienie by Henryk Miśkiewicz, ID by Anna Maria Jopek, Jest Cudnie and 50 by Maryla Rodowicz, and Looking For Balance
by Krzysztof Herdzin. An extended line-up of the same orchestra (under the name
of Classic Entertainment) played with the legendary British rock group YES during its European tour promoting the CD Magnification.

Sinfonia VIVA, one of the most versatile orchestras on the Polish market, boasts world-class standards of performance, which have allowed it to master a vast repertoire ranging from classical to popular music.