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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In September 2022, the Toruń Symphony Orchestra would like to celebrate the 100^th anniversary of birth of one of the most outstanding contemporary composers, Kazimierz Serocki, born in Toruń.  On this occasion concerts and lectures will take place between the 3^rd and the 23^rd of September, which are supposed to draw attention to the composer still little known to the general public.

The project was already inaugurated in March this year, presenting the piece Hommage à Serocki by Adam Falenty, composed especially for this occasion. Main celebrations however, will take place in September. 18 events are in the programme, with the participation of such recognized artists as Zygmunt Krauze, Ingolf Wunder and Adam Kośmieja.

During the concert on the 3^rd of September, the world premiere of the piece Pianophonie by Serocki will take place, the original interpretation of which will be presented by electronic music producer Szymon Weiss. Ingolf Wunder, winner of the 2^nd prize at the 16^th Chopin Piano Competition, will perform Serocki's Romantic Concerto for the first time in his career, and on the 23^rd of September we will hear the premiere performance of Sercoki’s music to the film Potop.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Music’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Detailed programme: www.tos.art.pl 

Engaged and full of bold experiments - this will be the 20^th Sacrum Profanum contemporary music festival. Between the 2^nd and 11^th of September, 2022, together with artists from Poland and abroad, the public will take part in such unusual events as an eco-opera or a concert for twelve electric guitars and will also hear rare instruments, and maybe even experience musical hallucinations. All this in the interesting spaces of Cracow.

The festival will feature pieces from Poland, the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Lithuania, Latvia and Romania. Compositions by Piotr Peszat, Martyna Bast, Marta Forsberg, Mike Majkowski, Wojciech Błażejczyk, Hubert Zemler, Zbigniew Karkowski, Stefan Węgłowski and Michał Jacaszek will be premiered.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the ‘Music’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Festival website: https://sacrumprofanum.com/ 

Concerts, performances, shows. Both large and small meetings with Jewish culture, art and tradition as interpreted by artists from all over the world, with the Israeli star Yasmin Levy in the final. The 19^th edition of the Singer's Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture will take place on August 27 - September 4, 2022. The festival events will also take place from the 12^th of August in many places associated with the life and work of Icchok Bashevis Singer. Before the Nobel Prize winner and the festival's patron reached Warsaw and later moved to New York, Biłgoraj, Leoncin and Radzymin were on his way.

Although Singer's Warsaw is a festival devoted to culture, its organizers are not indifferent to the events around them and this year they decided to invite artists from Ukraine, as well as artists who support our neighbors in their projects. This year, in line with the festival's tradition, music and theater will dominate. The regular points of the programme will also include meetings around literature, music and history, film screenings, as well as lectures, workshops, exhibitions and city walks.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra is a living legend: one of the best symphony orchestras in Poland and a brand recognized in the world. By giving concerts in the most distant corners of the globe, the NOSPR has been carrying out the mission of the ambassador of Polish culture for many years. In September 2022, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra sets off on a tour of Japan. It will be a return after a 20-year break, and also the sixth visit to the ‘country of the cherry blossom’ in the long history of the orchestra.

During the tour, the orchestra will be accompanied by two exceptional personalities: the US conducting icon Marin Alsop and the rising star of Japanese piano, Hayato Sumino.

Scheduled from September 7 to 19, the tour includes 11 concerts at the most important cultural centers in Japan, including Tokyo at the famous Suntory Hall.

Press release

More: www.nospr.org.pl 

Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna Foundation invites you to the jubilee 15^th Summer Festival of the Warsaw New Town, which will be held at the st. Jack Dominican Church in the Freta 10 street between the 25^th of August and the 3^rd of September, 2022. At this year's edition of the festival artists such as Janusz Olejniczak, Tomasz Strahl, Katarzyna Duda, Paweł Kowalski, Warsaw Camerata under the direction of Paweł Kos-Nowicki and Popko & Thieu-Quang Duo will perform.

On the 26^th of August at 7.00 p.m., a clarinet-piano duo will perform. In the interpretation of pianist Paweł Popko and clarinetist Piotr Thieu-Quang we will hear works by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Fryderyk Chopin, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Tadeusz Baird, Antoni Szałowski and Witold Lutosławski.

Admission to the concerts is free!

Festival website: https://www.facebook.com/LetniFestiwalNowegoMiasta/