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The concerts on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Creative Scholarships of the City of Kraków will be held on every Sunday, from 11 August to 1 September 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the Saint Catherine of Alexandria church in Kraków 

Outstanding musicians from Kraków: Piotr Krzaczkowski, Mateusz Dudek, Duo Ardente, LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio and Cracow Duo will present compositions by prominent Kraków composers, including laureates of the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków: Michał Papara, Piotr Peszat, Wojciech Widłak, Marcel Chyrzyński and Maciej Jabłoński. The repertoire will also include classical music from various eras as well as Polish contemporary compositions by Zbigniew Bargielski and Wiesław Cienciała.

The event is organized by the Art Forum Foundation as part of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków and is co-financed by the City of Kraków. Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://www.facebook.com/fundacjaartforum  i https://fundacjaartforum.pl/ 

The International Music Festival "Sacrum Non Profanum" will be held on 8-17 August 2019.

The festival has been organized since 2005 by the Pomeranian Association of Instrumentalists 'Academia'. Every year, one of the outstanding Polish composers is the patron of the undertaking. This year's edition will be dedicated to Stanisław Moniuszko. Festival events will be held, among others, in the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin, the Cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle in Szczecin, the Castle Opera, the House of Culture of the "13 Muses", the Castle of Pomeranian Dukes, as well as the famous Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Berlin, where the Litanies of Ostra Brama and Organ Prelude on the theme of 'Lenten Lamentations' will be performed by German, Ukrainian and Polish artists.

The programme of the festival includes pieces of contemporary music intertwined with the classics of bygone eras. This year's edition will feature about five hundred artists, including the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, who celebrates 50th anniversary. The world-famous musicians will perform, among others, >Quartet for 4 Saxophones Op. 65 a by Krzysztof Meyer. On 13 August in the '13 Muses' House of Culture, there will be a concert organised in cooperation with the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Center as part of the "Music of our times" programme, which promote music of young Polish composers performed by young instrumentalists. The repertoire will include pieces by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Roksana Wawrzyniecka, Marek Pasieczny, Paweł Sławiński and Marcin Jachim. Participants of the International Music Workshop – members of the three brass bands from Belarus, Germany and Poland – will perform arrangements of Moniuszko's songs in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ Church in Łobez and during the open-air final concert in front of the famous ruins of St. Nicholas Church in Trzęsacz.

Festival concerts will be accompanied by fringe events (film screenings, exhibitions and scientific conference).

Full programme available at: http://sacrumnonprofanum.eu/ 

The August edition of "Summer with Sinfonia Varsovia" covers themed chamber music concerts, popular dance parties, a musical spectacle for the entire family and an orchestral concert with guitar virtuoso Krzysztof Meisinger.

The "Summer Concerts at Grochowska Street' in August are divided into two streams. Saturday's meetings will present music of Old Warsaw – songs from the 1920s and 1930s  as well as works popular among Varsovians in the first half of the twentieth century. The group of peformers will include violinist Joanna Okoń and pianist Katarzyna Glensk (3 August), vocal ensemble Il Canto (10 August), Camerata Vistula with its artistic director Andrzej Wróbel and cellist Anna Wróbel (17 August), and Emilia Sitarz and Bartłomiej Wąsik of the Lutosławski Piano Duo (24 August) .

Sundays will be filled with partly improvised music. Invited artists will present repertoire from different eras: Ars Nova early music instrumental ensemble will present the Middle Ages and the Renaissance music (4 August), Cornu Copiae orchestra with violinist Karolina Habała will perform music of the Baroque era (11 August), harpsichordist Stanisław Łopuszyński will present works from the French harpsichordists repertoire as well as contemporary compositions (18 August). During the last Summer Concert at Grochowska Street (25 August), Atom String Quartet will present works by Krzysztof Penderecki, the artistic director of the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, in original arrangements. The concert will also be the premiere of the ensemble's latest album entitled Penderecki.

Next meeting from the series "Morning Concerts at Grochowska Street" will take place on the first Sunday of August at 11:00 a.m., featuring a spectacle entitled Loook, a Zoo!  based on Jan Brzechwa's poems. Music by Zuzanna Falkowska and Jan Stokłosy together with poems about bear, wild boar, giraffe and other animals liked by the youngest ones will create an interesting world for both children and adults.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information available at: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org 

Fallen during the Warsaw Uprising will be commemorated at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Licheń on the 75th anniversary. A concert of patriotic songs entitled "The Cross and the Eagle" will take place on 1 August 2019 at 5:05 p.m.

The Eucharist in the intention of the fallen will be celebrated by Marian Fathers at 4:00 p.m. After the mass, during the "W" hour at 5:00 p.m., the largest bell in Poland "Mary Mother of God" will sound to commemorate the insurgents. Next, there will be a concert featuring: Bogusław Morka (tenor, soloist of the Grand Theater – National Opera and Roma Musical Theater in Warsaw), Emilia Zielińska (soprano), Mariusz Ruta (tenor) and a chamber group under the direction of prof. Bogna Dulińska.

The programme of the concert will include works by Wojciech Sowiński, Stanisław Niewiadomski, Jan Markowski, Wiesław Kądziela, Otto Żukowski, Adam Kowalski and Włodzimierz Korcz, referring to the period of the First World War, the Polish-Bolshevik war in 1920 and the defense of Lviv; covering the period of the Warsaw Uprising, as well as the experience of teh wartime, solidarity and independence.

In the Father Józef Jarzębowski Museum located in the basilica, one will be able to see previously unveiled memorabilia associated with the Warsaw Uprising. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the employees will present unique photographs, insurgent armbands, the sculpture "The Little Insurrectionist", Zdzisław Karol Szczepański's woodcuts and other memorabilia from that time.

A concert entitled "Varsovians sing (un)forbidden songs" will take place on 1 August 2019 at 8:30 p.m. on Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square. The yearly event organized by the Warsaw Rising Museum is a part of the celebrations of the 1944 rising.

The museum invites all interested in the history of Warsaw to commemorate that time and honor people who fought for Poland by singing together the insurgent songs. Special songbooks are prepared for this occasion, including songs by famous Polish composers and cultural activists: Karol Kurpiński, Andrzej Panufnik, Jan Ekier, Jan Markowski, Jerzy Dargiel and Kazimierz Oberfeld. This year, the repertoire will be presented by the Stokłosa Collective Orchestra, the Warsaw Violin Choir and soloists: Natalia Piotrowska, Sebastian Machalski and Kuba Jurzyk under the baton of Jan Stokłosa, who is also the author of the arrangements of the works. The concert will be hosted by Tomasz Wolny.

For those who will not be able to reach Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square, the concert will be broadcast live on TVP1 (from 8:35 p.m.).

Admission free.

More information at: https://www.1944.pl/