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The 47^th Festival ‘Music in Old Cracow’ will take place between the 15^th and 31^st of August 15-31, 2022. Artists cooperating with the twin festival ‘Music in Old Lviv’ will also take part in this year's edition of the Cracow project.

Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Stabrawa, Virtuosi of Lviv, Collegium Zieleński, Triplum Male Vocal Quartet, Royal Rorantists, Čiurlonis String Quartet and other recognized artist will take part in the Festival. The artists will perform in the historic interiors and courtyards of Cracow.

Media patronage: ej POLMIC.

VI CORNO – Brass Music Festival will take place between the 15^th and 20^th of August 2022, as always in Zielona Góra. There are six different concerts planned, in which the main role will be played by orchestral brass – French horn,
trumpet, trombone and tuba. We will also hear the Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Radek Baborak and a jazz band led by American trumpet player Brandon Ridenour and Nikola Kołodziejczyk.

CORNO - Brass Music Festival is a unique event during which there are chamber and symphonic concerts, international instrumental workshops, individual and group lessons, classes on healthy body posture, lectures, an exhibition of instruments – all in several locations in Zielona Góra. It is a unique and the only festival of this type in Poland, currently the largest both in the country and in this part of Europe.

During the inaugurating concert, the work by Kołodziejczyk Turning Table will be performed. The commission of the work by the Festival was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, as part of the ‘Composers’ Commissions’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.. 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The concerts of the 1^st edition of the Mokotów International Organ and Chamber Music Festival will take place on Sundays – 14^th, 21^st and 28^th of August 2022 - at 18:00 at the Sanctuary of St. Andrzej Bobola in Warsaw at Rakowiecka 61 street. Admission to the events is free!

The programme of three concerts includes a wide range of music literature - vocal and instrumental, from early baroque to 20^th century music. The performers come from Gdańsk, Warsaw and Leipzig.

Detailed programme and biographical notes will be available at:

www.rakowiecka.jezuici.pl 

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fanpage’u festiwalu na Facebooku.

After a note of Sebastian Kuczyński

From the 14^th to the 31^st of August, 2022 an international ‘Chopin and his Europe’ Festival will take place in Warsaw. The programme includes over 30 concerts.

Piano recitals will be performed by, among others, Bruce Liu, the winner of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2021. We will hear orchestras and chamber musicians in 16 concerts, there will also be vocal music. A treat for opera lovers will be a concert performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno, ossia il finto Stanislao. The European Union Youth Orchestra, conducted by Gianandre Noseda, will present A Sorrowful Tale, Op. 13 by Mieczysław Karłowicz. Sinfonia Varsovia, conducted by Andriy Yurkevych, will perform symphonic works by Zygmunt Noskowski and Witold Maliszewski. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 18 by Mieczysław Weinberg will be presented during the chamber concert on the 27^th of August.

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Ticket and programme information: https://festiwal.nifc.pl/pl/2022/kalendarium 

In August 2022 on the occasion of the 800^th anniversary of Zielona Góra and the 700^th anniversary of granting city rights, concerts organized by the city will take place.

On the 13^th of August at 7:00 p.m. at the Museum of the Lubuskie Region, Reed Connection Trio will perform a premiere of Czesław Grabowski's Cantabile e Scherzando. It will also present works by Aleksander Tansman, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

On the 20^th of August at 5:00 p.m. a concert ‘800 instruments for the 800^th anniversary of the city of Zielona Góra’ will take place. Anyone can apply to join an unusual orchestra: the aim of the project is to create the largest city orchestra in Poland and to perform Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah on all existing instruments.

Admission to the concerts is free!