In September 2025 Krzysztof Urbański entered the second season of his tenures as Music and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic and as Chief Conductor of the Berner Symphonieorchester. Since 2022, he is Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana.
He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, among others.
Krzysztof Urbański served as Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (2011–2021) and as Chief Conductor and Artistic Leader of the Trondheim Symphony (2010–2017). In 2017 he was appointed Honorary Guest Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony and Opera. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony (2012–2016) and Principal Guest Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester (2015–2021).
With the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester he recorded albums of Lutosławski’s works, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring", Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and works by Richard Strauss, all for Alpha Classics. His discography also includes an album of works for piano and orchestra by Chopin with Jan Lisiecki and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon which received an ECHO Klassik Award, as well as an album featuring Martinů’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Sol Gabetta and the Berliner Philharmoniker, recorded for Sony.