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On 29-31 October 2021 Bielsko-Biała and Szczyrk will host the second edition of the extraordinary Beskid Classics Festival organised by the Temida Arts & Business foundation – the largest event of this type in the Polish Beskid Mountains.

Already its first edition in 2019 aroused great interest among music lovers and Polish media, bringing world-class artists such as Charlie Siem and Valentina Igoshina to Bielsko-Biała. Although this year, due to the post-pandemic situation, the organisers will present mainly performers from Poland (Cracow Duo: Kalinowski & Szlezer, Baltic Neopolis Virtuosi), it will also feature the Slovak National Chamber Orchestra "Slovak Sinfonietta" conducted by Martin Leginus, the conductor of the National Opera of Slovakia, with soloists Klára Přecechtělová and Bibiána Bieniková. The festival concerts will also go outside Bielsko-Biała to the Bator Art Gallery in Szczyrk, famous for its works of magical realism. We will hear romantic and contemporary music, including works by Fryderyk Chopin and Romuald Twardowski.

In addition, the organisers will invite participants to workshops with leading Polish specialists in the field of optimal acoustic and Hi-Fi arrangements of home interiors. It will surely be a unique musical and artistic feast in this region.

"StART – a series of concerts" was co-financed by the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the "Music" programme carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Programme and tickets: https://klasyka.eu/ 

A symphonic concert on 29 October 2021 at 7.00 p.m. at the Silesian Philharmonic will commemorate the 120th anniversary of the only concert of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Silesia: it was held in the building that has housed the Philharmonic since 1945. The Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski and the pianist Krzysztof Książek will perform works by Ignacy Jan Paderewski as well as Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

The concert will begin with Paderewski's Overture in E flat major, dating from the composer's adolescent period. It will be a kind of introduction to his Piano Concerto in A minor. The soloist will be Krzysztof Książek, a semi-finalist and winner of two non-statutory prizes at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw (2015) and winner of the 3rd prize and a special prize for the best performance of mazurkas at the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments (2018).

The third item on the programme will be Karol Szymanowski's Etude in B flat minor, orchestrated by Grzegorz Fitelberg. It is the best known etude in the entire series of Op. 4. Ot was popularized by none other than Ignacy Jan Paderewski, of course in its original piano version. The concert will end with the Eternal Songs symphonic poem by Mieczysław Karłowicz.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket Information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/ 

The 13th edition of Schaeffer's Era Festival will feature a multimedia performance Schaeffer Arts Fight. This energetic "Fight for Art" from the perspective of Schaeffer's works will take place on 29 October 2021 at 7.00 p.m. at the Basen Artystyczny Stage in Warsaw.

Everyone who knows the avant-garde style of Professor Bogusław Schaeffer, knows very well that each meeting with his work – combining music, dance, graphics, visual arts and acting – has a unique character and is an extraordinary experience on an aesthetic and philosophical level.

Quoting Maciej Sobociński, who directed all the performances as part of the Schaeffer's Era project since its inception, "The 13th Schaeffer's Era will surprise you with its original form like never before. Based entirely on the Schaefferian unpredictable dialogue of the participating artists, it will become an unconventional duel for Man / Truth and Essence of Art."

Among the performers will be: Lidia Bogaczówna, Izabela Warykiewicz, Alicja Węgorzewska-Whiskerd, Sean Palmer, Marcel Wiercichowski, Witold Jurewicz, Janusz Radek, Marcin Wyrostek & Coloriage, Paweł Tomaszewski and Małe Instrumenty Ensemble.

The Honorary Patrons of the Festival are: the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport, the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship, Adam Struzik, and the President of the Capital City of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski.

The event is co-financed from the budget of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship. The project is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw as well as the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the "Music" programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information: http://aureaporta.eu/ 

"Great composers – Great anniversaries" is a project of the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, the idea of ​​which is to commemorate artists and their important anniversaries falling in 2021. A screening of the film Nanerl, Mozart's sister on 28 October at Centrum Cinema, and a concert entitled Requiem in Memory of Mozart at the CKK Jordanki Concert Hall will celebrate the 230th anniversary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The project includes the following anniversaries: the 280th anniversary of the death of A. Vivaldi, the 100th anniversary of the death of C. Saint-Saëns, the 50th anniversary of the death of I. Stravinsky, the 120th anniversary of the death of G. Verdi, the 230th anniversary of the death of W.A. Mozart, the 110th anniversary of the death of G. Mahler and the 100th anniversary of the death of W. Żeleński.

The next concert will be performed by the Choir of the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, the Choir of the University of Sciences and Technology in Bydgoszcz, the Choir of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, the Toruń Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adam Banaszek, and soloists: Maria Rozynek-Banaszak (soprano), Elżbieta Wróblewska (mezzo-soprano), Sylwester Smulczyński (tenor) and Grzegorz Szostak (bass). The programme will include Mozart's Requiem in D minor KV 626 and Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles".

The concert will be preceded by a meeting led by Andrzej Sułek which will start at 6.00 p.m. at the CKK Jordanki Concert Hall.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the "Music" programme carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://tos.art.pl/ 

The University Library in Warsaw invites you on 28 October 2021 at 6.00 to a concert of Zbigniew Bargielski's music as a gesture of thanks to the Professor for his generous donation.

In 2019, Professor Zbigniew Bargielski donated to the University Library in Warsaw his musical manuscripts – a testimony to five decades of work, thus enriching the collection of the BUW Archives Polish Composers. The concert is an expression of gratitude to the Composer. It will also be an opportunity to present the received gift.

Professor Bargielski's compositions will be performed in the auditorium on level -1 of the BUW complex. Among the performers will be outstanding musicians: saxophonist Alina Mleczko, soprano Ewa Leszczyńska, pianists Paweł Popko and Adam Mikołaj Goździewski, violinist Dominika Przech and accordionist Sara Wienczek. The programme will include such works as: "Night-Day" – 5 songs, Hierophany I, Neosonatina, Tango, and A Few Minutes of Presence.

If you are interested in attending the concert, please confirm your attendance by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Read more: https://www.buw.uw.edu.pl/rekopisy-muzyczne-prof-zbigniewa-bargielskiego-w-archiwum-kompozytorow-polskich-buw/