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Concert on the 1^st of October at the Silesian Philharmonic 5:00 p.m. on the occasion of the International Music Day is part of the nationwide ‘Senior Weekend with Culture’ campaign. The Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Jarosław Wolanin, and pianist Adam Eibin will perform arrangements of Fryderyk Chopin's works.

Well-known mazurkas, etudes, songs, waltzes and preludes will be performed in Adam Eibin's arrangements for a cappella choir and choir with piano accompaniment. It will be a concert full of beautiful music, timelessly delightful melodies and an opportunity to immerse yourself in unusual arrangements that will allow you to find new colors in famous themes.

We will also hear Aprèslude – Chopin-Meditationen nach den Preludes, Op. 28 by Heinrich Poos.

On the 1^st October, 2023, we will celebrate Polish Music Day for the fifth time. This is a social campaign that promotes Polish music and increases Poles' awareness of the importance of music for the development of Polish culture and economy. The campaign supports the domestic music market and emphasizes the role of music in the lives of each of us.

The message of the campaign is cooperation: ‘Music connects EVERYONE.’ The more Polish music we listen to, the greater opportunities for artistic and export development we create for our favorite artists, and the stronger the position of the Polish market on the international arena becomes.

Project website: https://www.dzienpolskiejmuzyki.pl/

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Organ morning, meetings with organists, screening of a film about Grzegorz Fitelberg and the opening of an exhibition dedicated to him, as well as a jazz concert - this is the programme of the International Music Day at NOSPR on the 1^st of October, 2023!

The international music festival will start in Katowice at 10.30. The soloist of organ concerts entitled ‘Through the 19^th and 20^th centuries with the organ’ will be Prof. Elżbieta Karolak. The artist proposed a programme that is intended to present the richness of Polish organ literature: works by Augustyn Bloch, Mieczysław Surzyński (one of the most outstanding representatives of Polish organ music of the romantic era), Jospeh Kromlicki, Aleksander Tansman and Feliks Nowowiejski, who is said to be the greatest in the field of organs.

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Concerts of the Cracow Accordion Festival will be held in Cracow from the 30^th of September to the 13^th of December.

The Festival is an international celebration of accordion music in various genres and styles in the capital of Małopolska - Cracow. The concerts will be held in the Palace of Art, the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace – a branch of the National Museum in Cracow, the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music and the Church of St. Marcin.

In 2023, as part of the Festival concert series, the accordion will be compared with other keyboard instruments such as the piano, organ or harpsichord. An interesting summary will be the combination of an accordion with a baroque costume and a unique keyboard instrument - viola organista, which was recreated from Leonardo da Vinci’s designs.

An important element will also be the 10^th anniversary edition of the Concert of Premieres of Accordion Works, which will present solo and chamber works by composers such as Jakub Polaczyk, Olga Hans and Jarosław Płonka. In addition to the performance of well-known and respected artists from Poland and abroad, concerts of the Cracow Accordion Festival will enable the presentation and promotion of the Cracow accordion community, both academic and those operating outside of the university. The project is aimed at audiences of contemporary music.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 30^th of September, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., a unique concert titled ‘Laboratory of New Sacred Music’ will take place in St. Catherine's Church, in Gdańsk.

The Polish Chamber Choir will premiere a 5-part work by Marek Raczyński, Threni, commissioned by the ensemble. This choir, celebrating its 45^th anniversary this year, will also perform premieres of works awarded in the 26^th International Musica Sacra Nova Composition Competition, and will present the work Domine Iesu Christe by creator of the competition - Paweł Łukaszewski.

Composition Threni by Marek Raczyński was created as part of the ‘Composer's Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance. The textual layer of this composition for choir, saxophone, double bass and drums consists of fragments of Jeremiah's Lamentations.

More information: https://www.polskichorkameralny.pl/