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"Nature" is the theme of the 22nd edition of "La Folle Journée" Festival. One of the greatest festivals in the world popularising classical music will be held in France between January 29 and February 7, 2016. Sinfonia Varsovia and the Polish Chamber Orchestra will perform 27 concerts in the Pays de la Loire region and Nantes.

The French edition of the international "La Folle Journée" Festival traditionally began in the Pays de la Loire region (January 29-31). This year, the festival is hosted by 11 cities, with Sinfonia Varsovia and the Polish Chamber Orchestra performing in 8: La Roche-sur-Yon, Cholet, Saumur, Saint Nazaire, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Challans, Laval and La Flèche. Next, from 3 to 7 February, Nantes will host more than 300 concerts, conferences and educational workshops.
Together with violinist Sayaka Shoji the Polish Chamber Orchestra will perform, among others, Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, also playing the recomposed version by Max Richter. Sinfonia Varsovia’s repertoire will include such works as Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Pablo Casals’ Song of the Birds, Justin Heinrich Knecht’s Portrait musical de la nature, Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, symphonic poems: Bedřich Smetana’s Vltava and From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields, Zygmunt Noskowski’s The Steppe, Isao Matsushita’s concerto for percussion and orchestra Hi-Ten-Yu (featuring soloist Eitetsu Hayashi) and Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 played by Anna Maria Staśkiewicz. The Orchestra will be conducted by Grzegorz Nowak, Robert Trevino,Daniel Reuss and Lio Kuokman.

Selected concerts will be broadcast by the French ARTE television channel.

Subsequent editions of this international event will be held in Japan, Russia and Poland.

Source: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org

Agata Zubel and Cezary Duchnowski, joined by Ensemble KNM Berlin, will give a concert on January 23, 2016 at 8.00 pm in the Radialsystem V during the UltraSchall Festival in Berlin.

Programme:
Agata Zubel - Shades of Ice for clarinet, cello and electronics (2011); Not I for voice, chamber ensemble and electronics (2012)

Cezary Duchnowski - Parallels for piano, keyboard midi, percussion and cello (2014); Drone Music for instruments and electronics (2014); 1 5 1, 2 4 2, 3 3 3 for violin, cello and electronics

Performers:
Agata Zubel - voice
Cezary Duchnowski - electronics
Ensemble KNM Berlin
Lin Liao - conductor

Live broadcast will be available at Deutschlandradio Kultur.

Agata Zubel and Cezary Duchnowski, joined by Ensemble KNM Berlin, will give a concert on January 23, 2016 at 8.00 pm in the Radialsystem V during the UltraSchall Festival in Berlin.

Programme:
Agata Zubel - Shades of Ice for clarinet, cello and electronics (2011); Not I for voice, chamber ensemble and electronics (2012)

Cezary Duchnowski - Parallels for piano, keyboard midi, percussion and cello (2014); Drone Music for instruments and electronics (2014); 1 5 1, 2 4 2, 3 3 3 for violin, cello and electronics

Performers:
Agata Zubel - voice
Cezary Duchnowski - electronics
Ensemble KNM Berlin
Lin Liao - conductor

Live broadcast will be available at Deutschlandradio Kultur.

Company E brings to the Terrace Theater (The John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts) a unique evening celebrating four generations of Polish contemporary choreography and classical music with Generations: Poland on January 22 and 23, 2016.

The Company, nominee for the 2015 Outstanding Emerging Artist Award, introduces new faces: Lidia Woś (choreography Who Let the Dogs Out; music by Marcin Brycki) and Robert Bondara (choreography Di di and go go to Singletrack by Paweł Szymański) in their U.S. choreographic debuts. Pola Nireńska, a legend in the Washington dance scene who passed away in 1991, is highlighted with the return to the stage of Dirge, part of her Holocaust Tetralogy. Past Pola Nireńska Award winner and Company E co-artistic director Paul Gordon Emerson premieres work Air set to the second movement of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs No. 3, Op. 36. The composition (arranged for gospel choir by Gavin Stewart) will be performed by Washington Performing Art's Children of the Gospel Choir directed by Michele Fowlin.

Source: www.kennedy-center.org