This concert programme featuring the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra includes works by less recognizable composers, but nonetheless worth the attention of the audience. The premiere of Rudi de Bouw’s Piano Concerto “Equinox” directed by the composer will be a great attraction. The event will take place on the 26th of March 2022 at 6 p.m.
The concert will begin with Myroslav Skoryk’s Melody. This short, melancholic piece is the leitmotif of the 1982 war drama Vysokyy pereval. Then we will listen to the Piano Concerto “Equinox” by Rudi de Bouw. He was born in 1970 and was educated in Luxembourg and Liège. His oeuvre includes piano, chamber works and works intended for larger ensembles, including for strings. The artist often appears in Wrocław to direct the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, and the premiere of his latest work will be a great attraction of this concert.
Silent Music for strings is a composition by Valentin Silvestrov, a Ukrainian composer born in the 1930s, belonging to the same generation as Skoryk. It is delicate, very subtle music in which the Silvestrov engages in a dialogue with the past. The last piece in the programme is the Austrian Suite op. 51 by Sergei Bortkiewicz. This composer of Polish origin, born in 1877 in Kharkiv, settled in Vienna in 1922. Austria became his second home, and his sympathy for this country is reflected in the eclectic suite from 1939, a tribute to Austrian culture.
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The ‘With Classics Through Poland’ concert cycle is back! This year's concerts will be inaugurated by the pianist Jakub Kuszlik, winner of the 4th prize in the 18th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition. The music of Polish composers, as interpreted by him, will sound on the 24th of March at 6 p.m. at the Teatr Robotniczy in Bielawa, on the 25th of March at 6 p.m. in the revitalized palace in Kiełczyn and on the 26th of March 2022 at 5 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Strzegom Cultural Center.
On the 23rd of March 2022 at the age of 94 Andrzej Cwojdziński, a conductor, composer and teacher, a long-time director and artistic director of the Koszalin Philharmonic, a member of the Polish Composers' Union since 1957, died. Funeral ceremonies will take place on the 26th of March. The memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Koszalin.
On the 25th of March 2022 at 7 p.m. a concert featuring Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Silesian Philharmonic conducted by Yaroslav Shemet and eminent soloists: Maria Domżał, Natalia Skrycka and Adam Kutny will take place. 
On the 19th of March 2022 at 6 p.m. in Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Cracow and on the 22nd of March at 7 p.m. in the National Philharmonic in Warsaw versatile pianist, chamber musician and pedagogue Michał Francuz will perform. The concert is co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance as part of the programme ‘Polish Music Scene’ financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
