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A family concert entitled "Afternoon Tea with Mr Moniuszko" will take place on June 2, 2019 at 4.00 p.m. in the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra Concert Hall (272 Grochowska Street) as part of the cycle "Summer Concerts at Grochowska Street".

The afternoon chamber concerts will take place every weekend, featuring both renowned artists and rising stars of classical music. During the 30 thematically divided concerts – Not only orchestra, Japan, Moniuszko, Relax, On travel, Improvisation, Old Warsaw – we will have a chance to listen to ensembles of differnet types, such as a reed quintet with saxophone and bass clarinet, a cello octet or a flute quartet. The programme will include music of many styles and eras – from Baroque, through Romanticism, to jazz, contemporary and improvised music.

The "Afternoon Tea with Mr Moniuszko" concert will be will be led by Malina Sarnowska. Justyna Stępień-Grozdew (soprano), Rafał Grozdew (tenor), Tomasz Pawłowski (piano) and Animato Children's Choir directed by Olivia Kaczyńska will present Stanisław Moniuszko's chamber music.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org 

The Orchestra of the Royal City of Krakow Sinfonietta Cracovia invites you to a musical celebration of the Children's Day. A special concert will take place on June 2, 2019 at 10.00 a.m. at the Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University.

Danuta Augustyn as Mrs Sinfonietka will introduce children to the music of Stanisław Moniuszko, Johannes Straus and Domenico Dragonetti. The prgoramme will include pieces for double bass presented by a talented young instrumentalist Antek Trześniewski. The Cracow Children's Choir run by Mateusz Hrynkiewicz will also perform song dedictaed to the youngest music lovers. Before the concert, there will be a picnic in the courtyard of the Collegium Medicum.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: www.sinfonietta.pl Code

The 3rd International Biennale of Low Sounds BASSO will be held in Warsaw on June 2–30, 2019.

The idea of ​​the Biennale is to go beyond the framework of a festival of classical music. The core of the programme is music for bass instruments, particularly string instruments like cello or viola da gamba, electronic instruments (bass guitar, synthesizers), historical instruments (saz), and also human voice. The name BASSO refers to basso continuo, a partly improvised form of musical accompaniment popular in the Baroque period.

The festival will be inaugurated by the AUKSO orchestra under Marek Moś and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny who will perform works by Stanisław Moniuszko and Tadeusz Baird. The AUKSO orcehstra will also take part in the concert "Dominik Połoński in Memoriam" on June 20, along with vocalist Iza Połońska and cellists Ewa Kędzielska and Tomasz Strahl. The programme will include composistions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Jerzy Wasowki. The last musical event will feature Cezary Duchnowski's improvisations. The concerts will take place in three different venues: Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio, Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and Edward Detkens Church in Bielany Forest. The festival will also include master classes, lectures, film screening, and events for children.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://basso.warszawa.pl/ 

On 1 June 2019 at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m., all children age 7 and up and their parents are warmly invited to the Royal Castle in Warsaw to attend the Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf op. 67.

The protagonist of the work is the valiant pioneer Peter, who succeeds in capturing the wolf himself (despite the warnings of his grouchy grandfather) and takes him to the zoo in a joyful parade. The work written in 1936 still sparkles with grace, wit and melodic beauty and imparts a carefully concealed lesson – an ingenious presentation of individual instruments to young listeners (and ‘guiding motives’) corresponding to the heroes of the story. In the original score, the flute is assigned to the bird, the oboe to the duck, the clarinet to the cat and the bassoon to the grandfather, while the horns signal the part of the wolf and the strings of Peter. The hunters who want to catch the wolf are represented by percussion.

During the June concert dedicated especially to young audiences, the role of the narrator will be played by Paweł Królikowski, a popular film, TV, theatre and dubbing actor, as well as television producer and president of the Association of Polish Stage Artists. The arrangement will feature a quintet of woodwind and brass instruments.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/piotrus-i-wilk-koncert-z-okazji-dnia-dziecka/ 

German conductor Thomeas Culb will lead the Elbląg Chamber Orchestra during the concert on June 16, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the concert hall of the State Music Schools Complex in Elbląg.

German critics described him as a "sovereign interpreter". No wonder, since Thomas Kalb's original and ambiguous musical creations surprises even the most sophisticated music lovers. As one critic stated, "a conductor who, from every note, develops a bouquet of ideas and transfers his creativity to musicians". Under the baton of Thomas Kalb, the Elbląg chamber musicians will perform Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 12 in C minor D 703, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's String Symphony No. 12 in G minor, Edvard Grieg's String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 27, and Canzona di barocco for string orchestra by Henryk Czyż.

The concert is held under the patronage of the PWM Edition as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting the performances of Polish music.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: http://www.eok.elblag.eu/pl/news/kameralne-oblicza-thomasa-kalba 

Wojciech Waleczek will introduce the audience to the piano works by European composers of different periods during the concert on 9th June 2019 in the Old Town Hall in Elbląg. The concert will celebrate the 15th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union.

The audience will follow the piano history of the Old Continent. History, whose chapters were written not only by Chopin, Paganini and Bach, but also less known but equally intriguing artists. For example, Johan Helmich, a composer, oboist and conductor, who would embarrass people of the Renaissance with versatility, and went down in history as a "Swedish Haendel".

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.eok.elblag.eu/pl/news/fortepianowa-historia-europy

On 8 and 9 June 2019 at 4pm in the concert hall of the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra (272 Grochowska Street) concerts "Japan" and "Moniuszko" will take place as part of the cycle "Summer Concerts at Grochowska Street".

The cycle of afternoon chamber music concerts returns to the home of Sinfonia Varsovia. Just like last year, each Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 p.m. features performances by well-known artists and rising stars on the classical music scene. There will be 30 concerts arranged by common themes: Not just for Orchestra, Japan, Moniuszko, Relax, Travelling, Improvisation, Old Warsaw. The music will be performed by traditional ensembles and some rare configurations, including a reed trio with saxophone and bass clarinet, a cello octet and a flute quartet. The works performed will feature music of many periods and genres – from the Baroque to opera arias, jazz and contemporary and improvised music.

The upcoming June concerts will feature Piotr Nikiel (tenor), Miho Kurihara (piano) and participants of the Opera Academy. The musicians will present chamber music by Stanisław Moniuszko and Japanese composers. We will also listen to romantic vocal music and works by Polish composers of the twentieth century: Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ludomir Różycki, Witold Lutosławski, Piotr Perkowski, and Mieczysław Weinberg, whose 100th birth anniversary falls this year.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org 

On 5 June 2019 at 19.30pm, the Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music Silesia invites you to a concert in "The Youth's Wednesday" series at the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra concert hall in Katowice. The event will feature works for accordion, violin and clarinet by Andrzej Tuchowski and Mikołaj Majkusiak.

The works by Polish artists, as well as compositions by Franck Angelis, Astor Piazzolla, Artem Nyzhnyk, Masayoshi Oishi, Richard Gallian, Horace Silver, Frank Churchil and Paul Jorge Ferreira will be performed by a group of talented students and alumnus of the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice: accordionist Piotr Zarzyka, clarinettist Kamil Janas, and violinist Wojciech Barteczek.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: www.nospr.org.pl 

On 9 June 2019 at 6pm, the Association of Polish Musicians invites you to the Crown Tribunal in Lublin for a concert "Moniuszko and French music" as part of the concert series "Fonie Lublina".

Probably every music lover knows what value had Moniuszko's music to Poles in the days of positivism. Due to the use national motifs, attachment to national traditions as well as satirical and comedic sense, Moniuszko's works became a representation of the national belonging to the opressed nation. A slightly different approach to opera was presented at that time in France – a country that was undoubtedly the capital of European culture in the second half of the 19th century. It was there that the most prestigious opera performances were produced, attracting musicians from all over the world.

During the concert "Moniuszko and French music", Stanisław Moniuszko's works will be confronted with the works of French composers of the second half of the nineteenth century. The clash of different ways of perceiving music – Moniuszko's focused on national themes and the French composers' focused on the cosmopolitan values, the power of art and creating new trends – is reflected in the programme of the upcoming concert. Apart from Moniuszko's arias (also in the violin transcriptions), we will listen to the works by Georges Bizet, Charles Gounod and Cesar Franck.

Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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