marek janowski born 18 february 1939 in warsaw is a polishborn conductorjanowski grew up in wuppertal germany near cologne after his mother traveled there at the start of world war ii to be with her parents his father disappeared in poland during the warjanowski has served as music director in freiburg and at the dortmund opera conducting the dortmunder philharmoniker the latter from 1973 to 1979 he served as kapellmeister of the grzenich orchestra in cologne from 1986 to 1990 earlier in 1984 he became the music director of the orchestre philharmonique de radio france then called the nouvel orchestre philharmonique in paris a position he held until 2000 from 2000 to 2009 janowski served as principal conductor of the montecarlo philharmonic orchestra he was also principal conductor of the dresden philharmonic from 2001 to 2004since 2002 he has been the chief conductor of the berlin radio symphony orchestra and currently holds a contract for life with the orchestra in the 200506 season janowski began his tenure as artistic and music director of the orchestre de la suisse romande osr with an initial contract of five years in september 2008 his contract with the osr was extended to 2015 however in january 2010 in a change to the september 2008 contract extension janowski and the osr mutually agreed on the scheduled conclusion of his directorship of the osr after the 20112012 seasonin the usa beginning in 2005 janowski served as one of the conductors in a triumvirate of conductor leadership with the pittsburgh symphony orchestra pso with sir andrew davis and yan pascal tortelier providing artistic guidance for the orchestra in the absence of a single music director this arrangement ended in 2008 after the accession of manfred honeck as the psos music director janowski now holds the otto klemperer guest conductor chair with the pso he has recorded the four symphonies of johannes brahms with the psojanowski has conducted most of the major opera houses of the world including arabella salome and die entfhrung aus dem serail at the metropolitan opera he has made a number of operatic recordings including the first digital recording of the complete ring cycle of richard wagner between 1980 and 1983 for rca with the staatskapelle dresden he and that orchestra had earlier made the first recordings of die schweigsame frau by richard strauss in 1976 for emi and of euryanthe by carl maria von weber in 1974 for philips with jessye norman and nicolai gedda singing the lead roles another operatic first recording was of krysztof pendereckis the devils of loudun with the hamburg state opera shortly after he led the world premiere of the work in 1969