He was born in Brazil, but for many years now has been a Polish citizen. He started his musical education in his home city Fortaleza and continued it at the University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte. Subsequently, he completed a series of master’s courses in his mother country and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, Musikhochschule in Vienna and the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw where he completed his studies at the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music in Henryk Czyż’s class receiving high grades. After he came to Poland (1985), almost immediately stared an active career as a conductor. He was a guest conductor of many symphonic and chamber concerts as well as opera and ballet performances in nearly all musical institutions in the country and in many countries in Europe, both Americas and Asia. The artist’s performances received enthusiastic applause from the audience and earned him great recognition from the critics who, in many countries, had no hesitation in hailing him as one of the best conductors of his generation. José M. Florêncio held the permanent post of a conductor of the Great Theatre in Łódź, was a director of the National Opera in Wrocław, managing and artistic director of the Orchestra and Choir of the Polish Radio and Television in Kraków, conductor of the Great Theatre in Warsaw – National Opera, musical director of the Stanisław Moniuszko Great Theatre in Poznań and a managing and artistic director of the Tadeusz Szeligowski Philharmonic Orchestra in Poznań. He is also a conductor of "Orquestra Sinfonica Municipal de Sao Paulo" and assumed, at the beginning of the season 2007/2008, the position of a managing conductor of the Capella Bydgostiensis Chamber Orchestra, a band as part of the Pomorska Philharmonic Orchestra in Bydgoszcz. He is a winner of numerous prizes, including two Złota Łódka awards for the best theatre performances of the year: Ernani by Verdi in 1992 and Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni in 1993 on the stage of the Great Theatre in Łódź, winner of the best conductor award bestowed by São Paulo critics and winner of the prestigious Sereia de Ouro `97 award by the Brazilian GLOBO TV for his great contribution to creating a positive image of his home province Ceará both in Brazil and abroad.His artistic portfolio comprises many premiere performances of contemporary music, including world premieres of operas: Electra by Mikis Theodorakis and Olga by a Brazilian composer Jorge Antunes as well as Holocaust Cantata by Marta Ptaszyńska or premiere performances of music written by composers from many countries (e.g. Poland, France, Israel, Brazil) dedicated personally to him. He is also the first musician to have recorded many CDs comprising the latest music of composers from nearly all over the world. The last record containing music of French composers H. Tomasi and J. Bondon received five the so-called “diapasons”, i.e. the highest grade in the French record industry. José M. Florêncio’s artistic calendar, apart from active collaboration with the Great Theatre in Warsaw, National Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio, Sinfonia Varsovia, Pomorska Philharmonic bands and all the most important orchestras in the country, includes in addition invitations from such bands as Jerusalem Symphony, Israel Symphony Rishon Le Zion, Berliner Kammerorchester, Teatro Colón and a few other bands from France, Turkey, Brazil, China, Japan or Russia. The more important recent invitations deserving special attention are the artist’s stay at the Moscow Conservatoire where – as the first conductor from Poland in over 160 years of the Conservatoire’s history – conducted master’s courses and a concert of Polish and Brazilian music. This sets his name amongst the most distinguished personages like Sir Georg Solti and Mścisław Rostropowicz.
He was born in Brazil, but for many years now has been a Polish citizen. He started his musical education in his home city Fortaleza and continued it at the University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte. Subsequently, he completed a series of master’s courses in his mother country and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, Musikhochschule in Vienna and the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw where he completed his studies at the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music in Henryk Czyż’s class receiving high grades. After he came to Poland (1985), almost immediately stared an active career as a conductor. He was a guest conductor of many symphonic and chamber concerts as well as opera and ballet performances in nearly all musical institutions in the country and in many countries in Europe, both Americas and Asia. The artist’s performances received enthusiastic applause from the audience and earned him great recognition from the critics who, in many countries, had no hesitation in hailing him as one of the best conductors of his generation. José M. Florêncio held the permanent post of a conductor of the Great Theatre in Łódź, was a director of the National Opera in Wrocław, managing and artistic director of the Orchestra and Choir of the Polish Radio and Television in Kraków, conductor of the Great Theatre in Warsaw – National Opera, musical director of the Stanisław Moniuszko Great Theatre in Poznań and a managing and artistic director of the Tadeusz Szeligowski Philharmonic Orchestra in Poznań. He is also a conductor of "Orquestra Sinfonica Municipal de Sao Paulo" and assumed, at the beginning of the season 2007/2008, the position of a managing conductor of the Capella Bydgostiensis Chamber Orchestra, a band as part of the Pomorska Philharmonic Orchestra in Bydgoszcz. He is a winner of numerous prizes, including two Złota Łódka awards for the best theatre performances of the year: Ernani by Verdi in 1992 and Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni in 1993 on the stage of the Great Theatre in Łódź, winner of the best conductor award bestowed by São Paulo critics and winner of the prestigious Sereia de Ouro `97 award by the Brazilian GLOBO TV for his great contribution to creating a positive image of his home province Ceará both in Brazil and abroad.His artistic portfolio comprises many premiere performances of contemporary music, including world premieres of operas: Electra by Mikis Theodorakis and Olga by a Brazilian composer Jorge Antunes as well as Holocaust Cantata by Marta Ptaszyńska or premiere performances of music written by composers from many countries (e.g. Poland, France, Israel, Brazil) dedicated personally to him. He is also the first musician to have recorded many CDs comprising the latest music of composers from nearly all over the world. The last record containing music of French composers H. Tomasi and J. Bondon received five the so-called “diapasons”, i.e. the highest grade in the French record industry. José M. Florêncio’s artistic calendar, apart from active collaboration with the Great Theatre in Warsaw, National Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio, Sinfonia Varsovia, Pomorska Philharmonic bands and all the most important orchestras in the country, includes in addition invitations from such bands as Jerusalem Symphony, Israel Symphony Rishon Le Zion, Berliner Kammerorchester, Teatro Colón and a few other bands from France, Turkey, Brazil, China, Japan or Russia. The more important recent invitations deserving special attention are the artist’s stay at the Moscow Conservatoire where – as the first conductor from Poland in over 160 years of the Conservatoire’s history – conducted master’s courses and a concert of Polish and Brazilian music. This sets his name amongst the most distinguished personages like Sir Georg Solti and Mścisław Rostropowicz.
