A highly regarded conductor, promoter of cultural life, and musician with the renowned Vienna Philharmonic, he has conducted a wide array of ensembles, including the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchester, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Wiener Concert-Verein, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Teatro di San Carlo (Genoa), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic, various orchestras in South Korea (including those in Daejeon and Cheonan), Concerto Köln, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), the Polish Radio Orchestra, the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, the Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra, and the NFM Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked with the philharmonic orchestras of Poznań, Kraków, Łódź, and Gdańsk, as well as the Silesian Opera and the Kraków Opera.
He serves as the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Camerata Vienna Milano—an exclusive chamber ensemble that brings together musicians from two legendary institutions: the Vienna Philharmonic and La Scala in Milan.
From 2014 to 2022, he held the position of Director of Sinfonietta Cracovia (the Orchestra of the Royal Capital City of Kraków). More recently, he has taken on the artistic and substantive leadership of the residency for the NUSO orchestra from Kharkiv (Ukraine) in Poland – a project supported by the National Institute of Music and Dance (NIMiT) and the “Katowice – City of Gardens” institution – and has also joined the Radom Chamber Orchestra as its Principal Conductor. The conductor’s operatic repertoire spans works by composers ranging from Telemann, Gluck, and Mozart, through Donizetti, Puccini, Dvořák, and Strauss, to contemporary rarities by Fried and Nyman. He conducted the Vienna State Opera’s production of Kinderring. His conducting credits include the first Polish performance of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Adagio for strings and Music for Strings, Recorders, Marimba and Percussion; he also participated in the premieres of the quintet Pages from an Unwritten Diary and the Duo Concertante by the same composer. Furthermore, he conducted the Polish premiere – part of a series of global premieres – of Penderecki’s Concertino per tromba e orchestra.
An album featuring a recording of this work, released by Sony Classical, received the prestigious International Classical Music Award. Dybał also served as musical director for a highly acclaimed production of Penderecki’s opera Ubu Rex at the Silesian Opera.
He is the initiator and director of the Krzysztof Penderecki International Festival – Level 320 in Zabrze. The artist paid a musical tribute to his mentor during the official funeral ceremonies by conducting the composer’s works. Among the most significant events following Penderecki’s passing was the world premiere of fragments from his opera Phaedra (Fedra), presented in an arrangement by the conductor and performed with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra. Jurek Dybał is a two-time recipient of the Fryderyk Music Award. His other honors include the Bytom City Mayor’s Award, the Golden Mask, the Zabrze City Mayor’s Award, and the Jan Kiepura Award in the category of “Best Opera Conductor.” In his capacity as a conductor, he is also actively involved in education at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he collaborates with Michał Znaniecki to produce opera performances featuring young artists.