An accomplished conductor with a rich operatic, ballet, and symphonic repertoire. She constantly seeks new interpretive approaches and explores unconventional works worthy of being presented to a wide audience.
In October 2025, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Polish Royal Opera. Previously, since 2021, she had served as Music Director of the Polish National Ballet, and since 2008, she has been associated with the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera as a conductor. She is the recipient of the 2025 Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Award in the category of Best Conductor.
Marta Kluczyńska is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, where she studied symphonic and operatic conducting under Prof. Marek Pijarowski and piano under Prof. Elżbieta Karaś-Krasztel. In 2019, she participated in the Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera. She also took part in workshops organized by the European Network of Opera Academies, during the Edinburgh Festival and at the Académie Européenne du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
She is the creator and conductor of a cycle of concert performances of forgotten Polish operas at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, including: Henryk Jarecki – Barbara Radziwiłłówna (2022), Ludomir Różycki – Beatrix Cenci (2024), and Ludwik Grossman – Duch Wojewody (Ghost of the Governor) (2025). Since 2018, she has also served as music director of the annual open-air opera performances in front of the Nieborów Palace, conducting such productions as: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni (2019), Władysław Żeleński – Goplana (2021), Karol Kurpiński – Szarlatan, czyli wskrzeszanie umarłych (2022), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute (2023), and Antonín Dvořák – Rusalka (2024).
In 2025, she made her debut with the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducting performances of Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella in Birmingham and Manchester. Since the 2008/2009 season, she has been affiliated with the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, where she made her conducting debut at the age of 24 with the production In the Land of the Magic Flute. She has since been entrusted with conducting numerous opera performances, including The Haunted Manor by Stanisław Moniuszko and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten, premieres of operas within the Project “P,” as well as ballet productions such as Harnasie, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Le Corsaire, Tristan, and many others. In 2024, together with Anna Hop, she created and conducted a new version of Mieczysław Weinberg’s ballet Pinocchio (orig. The Golden Key) at the Polish National Opera.
She regularly collaborates with symphony orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish Radio Orchestra, and the philharmonic orchestras of Łódź, Szczecin, Gorzów Wielkopolski, and Zielona Góra, as well as Sinfonia Iuventus. She has also worked with the Grand Theatre in Poznań, Grand Theatre in Łódź, Wrocław Opera, and Landestheater Coburg.
