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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

We invite you to the July concerts at the Silesian Philharmonic, during which you will hear music known from the big screen, including works by Wojciech Kilar. On the 1^st of July, 2022 at 7.00 p.m. the Silesian Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Jarosław Wolanin, will host an evening full of film music. The solo parts during the concert inaugurating this summer concert series will be performed by Robert Czmok (saxophone) and Adam Eibin (piano).

The programme of the concert will be filled with songs from the movies. It will be an opportunity to listen to works created for the needs of such images, such as the Les choristes, Just Like Heaven, Amadeus and films from the James Bond series. What's more, musicians will perform works that were created with concert performance in mind, but turned out to be an inspiration for many directors and appeared many times in films.

After a note of Marta Szybiak

More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/movies-for-voices-czmok-eibin-wolanin-chor/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Małopolska Academy of Talents will visit the region for the eighth time. The concerts will take place in Nowy Sącz and Łąck in Małopolska from June 22 - July 2, 2022. Admission to all concerts is free. Let's start the summer with classical music!

The inauguration of this year's edition of the Małopolska Academy of Talents will take place in the Mała Galeria in Nowy Sącz on the 22^nd of June at 6 p.m. Pianist Karina Vorobey and cellist Valentyna Czekamova will perform works by Franz Liszt, Adam Walaciński and Andrzej Sztogarienko. A few days later, on the 26^th of June at 7 p.m. music courses will start.

The next concerts in Łąck will take place every evening at 6:45 p.m.

More information: www.mat.festiwalmuzyczny.com 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The JAX Association invites you to two summer music festivals organized in the Podlaskie Voivodeship: the 4th Festival of Chamber and Organ Music "Kamedulskie Wigry" (July 3 - October 23, 2022) and the 1^st Festival of Organ and Chamber Music "Basilica Augustoviensis" (3, 24, 31 July and August 28, 2022).

There are ten concerts ahead of us with the participation of the best organists and outstanding soloists, as well as the "Organum Mundi" conference devoted to the history of organ building. Admission to all concerts is free!

More details:

www.stowarzyszeniejax.pl 

https://festiwal.wigry.pro/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 8^th of July, 2022 at 19.00 the Silesian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maciej Tomasiewicz invites you to an evening filled with great hits of classical music - and not only! Lovers of opera, waltzes, film and popular music will surely find something for themselves. All the works on this evening's programme will have one thing in common: cinema. 

We will hear both works that were created for the needs of films and those that were included in the soundtrack, although they were intended to be performed on stage.

After a note of Marta Szybiak

Detailed programme: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/muzyka-filmowa-tomasiewicz-slaska-orkiestra-kameralna/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

An important element of the mission of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra is the restitution of forgotten masterpieces of Polish music in concert practice, and the concert on the 30^th of July, 2022 at 19.00 conducted by Antoni Wit at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw will be an important step in bringing back Zygmunt Noskowski to his rightful place among the outstanding Polish and European composers of the second half of the 19^th century. 

At the beginning of the 21^st  century, the music of Zygmunt Noskowski slowly began to return to concert stages, and the first editions of his previously unpublished works, such as String Quartets No. 2 and 3, and Symphony No. 2, also appeared.

Piotr Maculewicz

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Recognized jazz musicians and all Polish participants of the 16^th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań will take part in this year's jubilee edition of the Emanacje Festival. This year's Wieniawski Cycle will begin on the 9^th of July at 7.00 p.m. with a recital by Judyta Kluza-Sporniak (violin) and Grzegorz Skrobiński (piano). Pianohooligan will perform at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Center concert hall in Lusławice on the 10^th of July at 7.00 p.m.

The Wieniawski Cycle is an integral part of the 10^th Festival. The event's partner is Henryk Wieniawski Society in Poznań.

For years, improvised music has been an important part of the Emanacje Festival. This year’s edition will be no different. Pianohooligan i.e. Piotr Orzechowski will perfom 24 Preludes & Improvisations cycle and Experiment: Penderecki.

Tickets and details: https://penderecki-center.pl/emanacje 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 16^th of July at 6 p.m., 2022 on the 90^th anniversary of birth of (exact birthday on the 17^th) one of the most famous Polish composers of the 20^th century, Wojciech Kilar, the Silesian Philharmonic prepared a special concert dedicated to his memory. The Symphony Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmonic conducted by Yaroslav Shemet will perform only the works of this composer.

The concert will begin with the Solemn Overture, which was created on the occasion of the 145^th anniversary of granting city rights to Katowice. That evening, Kościelec 1909 will also be performed, a poem devoted to Mieczysław Karłowicz, who died tragically in the title year, buried in a snow avalanche near Mały Kościelec. The rest of the concert will be filled with film music, which is a genre of particular importance in Kilar's work. We will hear themes from Revenge, Salt of the Black Earth, The Promised Land and Pan Tadeusz.

After a note of Marta Szybiak

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/wojciech-kilar-in-memoriam-shemet-orkiestra-symfoniczna/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 17^th of July it will be 90 years since the birth of the most famous composer associated with Katowice – Wojciech Kilar.

On Saturday, the 16^th of July, composer’s music will be performed by Silesian artists in four parts of the city. Performers will be the Brass Quintet of NOSPR, the Silesian Chamber Musicians Quintet, the Choir of the Academic Music Group of the Silesian University of Technology and the ensemble of musicians from the Archetti Chamber Orchestra. We will meet musicians at the Katowice Market Square, the stairs of the Cathedral and in the amphitheater in the Culture Zone. A concert in the garden of Kilar’s villa at Kościuszko Street will be a unique attraction. After the composer’s death, the house was taken over by the city and it is now the Kilar House Music Education Center. The opportunity to enter the composer’s garden will be the first and most likely one of the last to see the site before construction work begins.

From morning to afternoon, film, chamber and religious music by Kilar will be performed at open concerts.

It will be a musical journey in the footsteps of Wojciech Kilar in Katowice. The places are symbolic and remind us of the composer’s ties with the city, but at the same time emphasize the richness of his work. That is why, for example, on the stairs of the Cathedral his choral religious works will be played, and a concert at the seat of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra will remind us that Wojciech Kilar was the great ambassador of the creation of this hall, which today is located at 1 Kilar Square – says Łukasz Kałębasiak from the Katowice City of Gardens institution, the event organizer.

The program has been arranged so that anyone who wants to can take part in all four concerts, because the artists will perform the program twice in each place. The film supplement to the musical marathon will be the evening show of „Dracula” dir. Francis Ford Coppola. We will also watch the painting with Kilar’s unforgettable music without tickets in the garden of the Doors Called Horse club at Warszawska Street. Admission to all events is free (limited number of seats in the garden of Kilar’s house).

Press release

Full programme of the event: https://miasto-ogrodow.eu/strona/urodziny_kilara 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 23^rd of July, 2022 at 19:00 in the church of Christ the Good Shepherd, the next edition of the Summer Festival Pieniny - Culture - Sacrum will begin and will last until August 13. Admission to the concerts is free!

The four concerts will be attended by award-winning organ virtuosos who represent various music centers in Poland, who are also teachers at music academies: Marek Stefański from Cracow, Krzysztof Lukas from Katowice, Jan Bokszczanin from Warsaw and the Silesian artist Władysław Szymański.

Not only organ music will fill summer Saturday evenings in the Pieniny Mountains.

Detailed programme: http://arsproarte.pl/#/kroscienko-nad-dunajcem/12-letni-festiwal-pieniny-kultura-sacrum