The orchestra “Sinfonia Masovia – Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic” was founded in 2014 by Prof. Dariusz Mikulski, who acts as General Director and Artistic Director. Initially, it performed under the name Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic and began its activities with a series of concerts in Poland – in Warsaw, Łódź, and Poznań – as well as with the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Ernst Reuter Hall in Berlin.
Since its founding, the orchestra has performed on many European music stages, including in France (Paris, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Valencia, Metz) and Germany (Berlin, Stuttgart, Neubrandenburg, Rostock, Nuremberg, Mannheim, Tübingen, Kiel, Hamburg, Rottweil, Konstanz, Koblenz, and other cities).
It has also participated in music festivals in Germany, such as the European Cultural Summer in Fellbach, the Sommersprossen in Rottweil, and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
MEETMIKULSKI CONCERT MANAGEMENT presents:
Jubilee Tour 2025/26
Justus Frantz – piano
Sinfonia Masovia – Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic
Dariusz Mikulski – conductor
Works by Mozart and Beethoven: Piano Concertos and Symphonies
Justus Frantz – pianist, conductor and TV presenter
For decades, Justus Frantz has been a formative figure in musical life as an internationally successful pianist, as a conductor of outstanding orchestras, as a presenter and tireless music educator, as a visionary of classical music life and as the founder, in particular, of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Philharmonic of Nations. With his dedication to music and his enthusiasm, he is an ambassador for the classical musical heritage of Central Europe and especially Germany to the world.
Frantz was born in Hohensalza in what is now Poland and grew up in Testorf in East Holstein. While studying piano with Eliza Hansen in Hamburg and Wilhelm Kempff in Positan, Justus Frantz studied conducting with Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg. In 1967 he won the attention of a large audience as a prizewinner at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
When Herbert von Karajan hired the young pianist in 1970, his international breakthrough came. Tours with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchester de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic through France, Germany and Austria as well as appearances at the Salzburg Festival followed.
Appearances with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in the USA in 1975 established the creative friendship between Justus Frantz and the American composer and conductor. In 1986, Justus Frantz founded the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and ran it as director until 1994. He made it one of the most important festivals in Europe and created a format that has become a model for numerous other festivals.
Justus Frantz has repeatedly developed unconventional concepts in order to attract new audiences and enable unbiased encounters with music. For ten years he hosted and performed music on the successful television show “Aehrung! Classic”, for which he received the Golden Camera in 1993.
Justus Frantz is the artistic director of the Philharmonic of Nations, which he founded in 1995 and was co-inspired by Leonard Bernstein and Yehudi Menuhin. With this orchestra he performed in over 1000 concerts – always with the aim of not only making excellent music, but also symbolically promoting the peaceful coexistence of people. Among other things, he conducted in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York in front of eighty heads of state, at the “Michael Jackson and Friends” charity concert in the Munich Olympic Stadium and at an exclusive concert with Pope John Paul II.
Justus Frantz regularly works with well-known orchestras and opera houses around the world, such as the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater St. Petersburg, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Novaya Rossiya Orchestra, the Great Symphony Orchestra Moscow, the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra and the Sinfonia Varsovia.
In 2013, Justus Frantz was the first Christian German artist to be given the position of chief conductor of an Israeli orchestra at the Israel Sinfonietta. With a major Brahms festival in Israel in 2014, the Hamburg-based conductor not only fulfilled a musical dream, but also built a symbolic bridge to his homeland.
His annual “Finca Festival Frantz & Friends” on Gran Canaria has been one of the “insider tips” of international music life for years. Well-known soloists and conductors, not only the Philharmonic of Nations, but also other world-class orchestras, meet every year for joint concerts in a relaxed atmosphere.
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Music knows no borders, no language barriers;
it connects people of all countries and skin colors,
of all ages and levels of education.
Dariusz MikulskiCEO SinfoniaMasovia.pl
Sinfonia Masovia –
Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic
The ensemble has worked with many great artists – Justus Frantz, Michael Maciaszczyk, Gudni Emilsson, Krzysztof Kamiński, Ksenia Dubrovskaya, Otto Sauter, Marc Gujon, Radovan Vlatkovic, Dario di Vietri, Aleksandra Gudzio, Pietro Bonfilio, Davide Alogna, Maurizio Baglini and others.
For the joy of making music, the musicians from the Sinfonia Masovia – Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic came together to achieve the highest level of musical perfection.
Concert tours in Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and China are planned for the coming artistic season.
The residence of the orchestra is the “Terminal Kultury” in Warsaw in the Praga district of Gocław.
Dariusz Mikulski
Conductor and French horn player; General Manager and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra; General and Artistic Director of Sudecka Philharmonic Orchestra of Wałbrzych (2005-2010); Professor at the Music Academy of Łódz; General Manager of CONCORNO Kulturmanagement Berlin; guest conductor of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra in Bangkok; Conductor of the Opera House in Poznan (2006-2009); Conductor of the Opera House in Wroclaw (2009-2010); Artistc Director of Amber Youth Orchestra (AYO); Artistic Director of Vienna Royal Artist Orchestra, General & Artistic Director of Sinfonia Masovia – Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic; Professor, Conductor and Soloist by The World Brass Association.