The 18th Festival "Musical Confrontations" will be held from December 2018 to March 2019. Festival meetings will take place at the Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Museum in Stawisko once a month.
Paying attention to important processes in the history of music, pointing out similar phenomena in literature, emphasizing the special relationships of poetry and music was the main idea and purpose of establishing the "Musical Confrontations" Festival in 2000. The continuation of the Festival after 2015 is possible thanks to the organizational support of the Music Encounters Foundation, affiliate of the Polish Composers' Union. The President of the Polish Composers' Union took the honorary patronage over the undertaking.
This year's Festival will feature compositions by Karol Szymanowski, who was closely related to Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Stawisko, as well as works by contemporary composers strongly embedded in Polish culture and, at the same time, seeking universal values in music. The programme of the first concert, which consisted of pieces written by rediscovered composers, was presented with great success at the New York's Carnegie Hall in October this year. 18th "Musical Confrontations" will end with the presentation of Tomasz Lerski's book Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's Warsaw, a meeting with its author and a concert of contemporary Warsaw composers.
Admission to all concerts is free!
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.