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Commemorating the events that took place 84 years ago, the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir conducted by Bartosz Michałowski will pay tribute to the victims of World War II. The first of the concerts as part of the celebration of the 70^th anniversary of the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ will take place in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church of the Holy Trinity in Warsaw on the 1^st of September, 2023 at 19.00. Admission free!

The ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ programme was prepared as an artistic response to the events we have been witnessing since the 24^th of February, 2022. This date became a turning point that destroyed the sense of stability and security of the modern world.

The repertoire of the concert is a musical call for peace expressed in the music of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian composers. We will hear, among others Beatus vir by Łukasz Urbaniak and Sanctus (a prayer of gratitude) by Michał Ziółkowski.

Detailed programme: https://filharmonia.pl/repertuar/-dona-nobis-pacem-chor-fn 

On the 84^th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on the 1^st of September, 2023 at 19.45 in the Zamość Rotunda there will be a concert of the Karol Namysłowski Symphony Orchestra in Zamość conducted by Tadeusz Wicherek. Together with the soprano Ewa Tracz, they will perform the Third Symphony – ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ Op. 36 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

Symphony No. 3 was written in 1976, commissioned by the Südwestfunk radio station in Baden Baden. The premiere took place in Royan as part of the 14^th International Festival of Contemporary Art. The recording of the work in the interpretation of Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman in 1991 achieved over a million sales and won a gold record, which caused great interest in the Polish composer around the world.

The concert on the 1^st of September will be dedicated to all the inhabitants of Zamość and the surrounding area who were murdered and deported to concentration camps during World War II.

Free entrance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Celebrating the 300^th anniversary of granting Biała city rights, the organisers invite you to concerts in Bielsko-Biała between the 31st of August and the 16th of September. The baroque Ensemble Giardino di Delizie from Rome at the Sułkowski Castle, the Czech Philharmonic Quartet at Villa Sixta, and the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra with present the world premiere of the new work by Mikołaj Górecki and the most famous works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Respighi.

The workby Mikołaj Górecki was commissioned by the Temida Arts & Business Foundation and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The concerts will also include music by such Polish artists as Adam Jarzębski, Fryderyk Chopin, Wojciech Kilar, Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the project ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability’, connecting composers, performers and artistic institutions from the Visegrad Group (V4) countries, at the beginning of September 2023 workshops with experts in the field of music and ecology will take place in Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava and Budapest.

The series of workshops will begin in Warsaw, where composers will have the opportunity to visit the Castle Gardens on August 31 - September 2, take part in a discussion with Krzysztof Marciniak - a musicologist and acoustic ecologist, and Joanna Tabaka, an ecological educator, and work on original ideas with members of the Hasztag Ensemble, specializing in the performance of contemporary music.

Project website: https://renmus.eu/ 

The jubilee 20^th Ensemble Festival will take place on August 27 - September 3, 2023 at the House of Creative Work - Palace in Radziejowice. The programme will include music and theater workshops as well as concerts and acting shows, during which the results of cooperation between award-winning and emerging artists will be presented. Admission to this year's edition of the Ensemble Festival is free!

Most of the concerts will feature Polish music, e.g. works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Zygmunt Krauze, Józef Nowakowski, Jan Duszyński, Marcin Markowicz, Mikołaj Majkusiak, Marcin Masecki, as well as songs of pre-war Warsaw arranged by Marcin Masecki and Marcin Markowicz.

On the 2^nd of September, there will be an acting show by Cezary Kosiński's group entitled Iwan Vyrypajew – "The Delhi Dance" (arr. Cezary Kosiński).

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund. The task was co-financed from the budget of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.

Detailed programme: https://ensemblefestival.org/program/