On 19 March 2018 at the Grand Theater – National Opera in Warsaw, the 100th anniversary of the Association of Authors ZAiKS will take place. The most outstanding Polish artists will take part in this event, including the greatest stars of Polish classical music, popular music and jazz. Recognized representatives of Polish culture will appear both on the stage and among the audience.
During the gala ceremony, the 100th anniversary awards of ZAiKS for Krzysztof Penderecki, Tomasz Stańko, Mirosław Bałka, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ryszard Horowitz, Jacek Cygan, Janusz Gajos, Agnieszka Duczmal, Leon Tarasewicz and Wiesław Myśliwski will be handed out. On this occasion, ZAiKS's Honorary Memberships will be granted to Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Adam Makowicz, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Emil Wesołowski, Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, Joanna Kulmowa, Janusz Majewski and Pen Club Poland.
The gala will be accompanied by a two-hour concert of the 100th anniversary presenting the achievements of ZAiKS members performed by the greatest stars of the Polish stage. More than 250 artists will appear on the stage. Representatives of several generations of diverse genres and musical traditions will meet in the Grand Theater. Especially for this occasion, a new arrangements of works has been prepared. Fragments of nearly seventy unforgettable works written by over a hundred Polish artists will be presented.
The 100th anniversary concert will open a pre-war retrospective by Marcin Masecki. Film music of Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy "Duduś" Matuszkiewicz, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Krzesimir Dębski and Michał Lorenc will also be played by the Orchestra of the Grand Theater under the direction of Krzesimir Dębski. We will also hear Fryderyk Chopin's songs. His work has been an inspiration for many generations of composers. This time, the artist's work will be interpreted by a world-famous Polish musician – Włodek Pawlik. The culmination of the event will be a fragment of Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater performed by opera singers: Iwona Hossa, Małgorzata Panko and Jarosław Bręk with the choir and orchestra conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk. Paulina Bidzińska – soloist of the Polish National Ballet and the Eurovision ballet winner – will perform a choreographic arrangement by Emil Wesołowski. The authors of the arrangement for symphony orchestra are Krzysztof Herdzin, Jakub and Dawid Lubowicz, Aleksander Maliszewski, Marcin Masecki and Krzesimir Dębski. The musical setting of the gala will be based on motifs from Mieczysław Karłowicz's symphonic poems: Episode at a Masquerade op. 14 and Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecim op.12.
More information at: http://www.zaiks.org.pl