Polish conductor Grzegorz Nowak studied conducting, composition, and violin at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland, then earned his doctorate at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He received a Serge Koussevitsky Fellowship to Tanglewood, and studied with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf, and Igor Markevitch, and afterwards became an assistant to Kurt Masur. He has conducted many orchestras internationally, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre National de France, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among many others. Nowak is the principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and he has recorded extensively on the RPO label.