ABOUT

Polish-born conductor Jakub Rompczyk recently served as Assistant Conductor for the orchestra and opera programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. His latest engagements include conducting Richard Danielpour’s The Grand Hotel Tartarus (2024) and Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias (2023) for Opera UCLA. In 2022, he was Assistant Conductor for Opera Santa Barbara’s production of La Traviata and led Opera UCLA’s final performance of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.

Internationally, Jakub conducted the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, MAV Symphony Orchestra, Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra, and Poznan Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. Between 2016 and 2018, he undertook a conducting apprenticeship at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the mentorship of Mariss Jansons.

Jakub received an MM in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he frequently worked with the Eastman orchestras and OSSIA New Music Ensemble. As the Erasmus scholarship recipient, he studied conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and holds a BM from the Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan. He participated in masterclasses with Bertrand de Billy, Arthur Fagen, Mark Gibson, Nicolas Pasquet, Leonard Slatkin, Mark Stringer, Kirk Trevor, and David Zinman.

He completed his doctoral studies at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he served as a Teaching Fellow. His DMA dissertation focuses on Mieczysław Weinberg’s Symphony No. 8. While studying at UCLA, he received the Ciro Zoppo Research Fellowship and two Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program Awards.