Artistic Director of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir.
Artistic Director of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (2015–2025), and Music Director of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok (2013–2015), where, alongside regular symphonic concerts, he prepared several opera productions. He also served as Associate Conductor of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (2009–2015) and as Associate Conductor of Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (2004–2008).
In 2019 he prepared and conducted the first ever Polish production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. In 2023 he returned to the Polish National Opera to conduct the premiere of Peter Grimes.
In December 2011 he conducted Szymanowski’s King Roger with the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, as the concluding event of the cultural programme marking Poland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union.
He has appeared as a guest conductor with numerous orchestras in Poland and abroad, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, most of Poland’s symphony orchestras, and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, as well as the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. His international engagements have taken him to France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Armenia, Italy, South Korea and the Persian Gulf region. He has also worked closely with the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, and the Poznań Opera.
From 2016 until February 2022 he was a guest conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he led performances of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Weinberg’s The Idiot, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Shostakovich’s Katerina Izmailova. He brought this collaboration to an end with a public statement following Russia’s barbaric military aggression against Ukraine.
Earlier in his career, from 1998 to 2003, he worked at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. He has made numerous recordings for radio and television, including the first ever recording of Szymanowski’s operetta Lottery for a Husband (with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and a live recording of King Roger (with the Polish National Opera). His recording of Szymanowski’s opera Hagith with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra received the prestigious Polish music award “Fryderyk” for Best Opera Recording in 2020.
He also pursues a teaching career as a member of the conducting faculty at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
Michał Klauza graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he studied conducting with Ryszard Dudek. He further developed his skills as a postgraduate student of Ilya Musin at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in St Petersburg and at international courses in Poland, Italy and the Netherlands.