Born in Hanover, Aurel Dawidiuk has been making a name for himself as a conductor, pianist and organist. In 2026 he took up the post of principal conductor of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that, he was the first Bernard Haitink associate conductor in the history of the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Aurel Dawidiuk began playing the piano and the violin when he was six years old. In 2014 he began piano studies in Hanover and organ studies in Detmold. Later, Dawidiuk studied orchestral conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller as well as srtudying piano with Till Fellner at the Zurich University of the Arts and organ with Martin Sander at the Basel Music Academy.
In 2021 he was admitted to the Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council. In 2023, he won the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival as well as a total of four prizes at the Hans von Bülow Competition in Meiningen, including the first prize in the ‘conducting from the piano’ category and the audience prize.
During the 2024–25 and the 2025–26 seasons, Dawidiuk was associate conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, assisting leading conductors in Amsterdam and on tour. In April 2026, he led the orchestra in works by Debussy, Poulenc and Tchaikovsky. On 3 October 2026, Dawidiuk conducted various works at the Ziggo Dome (Classics Live), and on 29 October he took part in the anniversary concert marking the 25th anniversary of the Academy of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducting Grieg’s First Suite from ‘Peer Gynt’ and performing as a soloist in Saint-Saëns’ ‘Organ Symphony’ under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä.
Dawidiuk has also guest conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Kammerorchester Basel, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Nürnberger Symphoniker.