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The first performance of the newest piece of Dariusz Swoszowski will take place on the 21^st of February 2022 at 6 p.m. in the concert hall of the Music Schools Complex in Tarnów. The concert’s theme will be ‘In the world of rythm’.

Paweł Swoszowski, a percussionist and pedagogue will be a soloist at the event. He completed Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and worked with renowned Polish ensembles.

At the upcoming concert Paweł Swoszowski will perform for the first time Dźwięki historii Tarnowa of Dariusz Swoszowski as well as solo percussion works: Attraction of Emmanuel Séjourné and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.

The event is made possible thanks to an artistic scholarship funded by the Municipality of the City of Tarnów.

Admission free (sanitary restrictions apply).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Additional information: http://zsmuz.tarnow.pl/ 

On the 20^th of February 2022 at 5 p.m. in the Silesian Philharmonic a ‘Multimedia Organ Evening’ will take place. The soloist of the evening will be Julian Gembalski, recognized organ player, laureate of many Polish and international awards. The programme of the concert will comprise works by Georg Muffat, Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck as well as organ improvisations.

The artistic output of Georg Muffat is a combination of German, French and Italian styles of the seventeenth century. The Apparatus musico-organisticus cycle is the biggest collection of organ music and a very popular one in its time. Julian Gembalski will perform collection’s seventh toccata in C major.

We will be also able to listen to Bach’s choral prelude Vor deinen Thron tret’ich and Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 as well as Chorale No. 3 in A-minor of César Franck.

Improvisations of Julian Gembalski will complete the concert.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/multimedialny-wieczor-organowy-gembalski/ 

Sepia Ensemble discovers jewels of Polish contemporary music anew! To be heard at two concerts co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance: on the 20^th of February 2022 at 6 p.m. in the Cracow Philharmonic and on the 22^nd of February 2022 at 6.30 p.m. in the Warsaw Philharmonic.The concerts are part of the ‘Polish Music Scene’ programme financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

The programme of the concert will consist of slightly forgotten but nevertheless extremely important milestones of the Polish music literature like Swinging Music of Kazimierz Serocki, a piece in which quite a specific group of instruments is used.

Witold Lutosławski’s Grave. Metamorphoses for cello and piano and Three miniatures for clarinet and piano of Krzysztof Penderecki will also be performed at the events.

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More: https://filharmoniakrakow.pl/public/repertuar/scena-muzyki-polskiej-17-2-2 

http://filharmonia.pl/repertuar/-scena-muzyki-polskiej-376500617-393693693-200910235 

‘70^th birthday anniversary - Generation ’51’: the next guest of this concert cycle in NOSPR will be recognized pianist Dr. Piotr Sałajczyk, the lecturer at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The concert will take place on the 19^th of February 2022 at 6 p.m. and will include works of composers such as Eugeniusz Knapik, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg to be performed by Silesian Quartet.

String Quartet No. 2 of Eugeniusz Knapik is dedicated to Silesian Quartet on the occasion of 40 years jubilee. The work was premiered in 2019. 35 - 40 minute piece is technically and emotionally demanding. It encompasses versatile composing techniques while elaborate language of the composer intensifies.

Next to the Knapik’s piece Piano Quartet of the 18-year-old Gustav Mahler will be played as well as Chamber Symphony Op. 8 by Arnold Schönberg transcribed to piano quintet by Anton Webern.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/kwartet-slaski-michal-szymanowski 

On the 19^th of February 2022 at 7 p.m. Sinfonia Iuventus together with conductor  Marek Pijarowski will perform in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio. The soloists will be internationally awarded musicians: Aleksandra Kuls – violin and Katarzyna Budnik – viola. Programme consists of works by Carl Maria von Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonín Dvořák.

Sinfonia concertante in E flat major for violin and viola by Mozart was written at the end of the composer’s youth in Salzburg. The title itself indicates a genre that combines the features of a symphony and a concerto, though here elements of the latter dominate. The two instruments engage in a lively dialogue and the entire work is brimming with a cheerful and carefree mood.

The opera (or rather the extensive singspiel with spoken dialogues) Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber which premiered in 1821 was destined to become a milestone in the history of music, lending theatrical and musical expression to many features of young Romanticism.

Shortly after his 50th birthday, Antonín Dvořák accepted an invitation from the USA to lead the conservatory in New York. Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 is one of his ‘New York’ compositions. The author admitted that he avoided direct citations, but had only tried to convey the spirit of America and its “endless landscapes” using a few references, including to the characteristic rhythmic and melodic gestures and scales of African-American and indigenous music. Even the title – From the New World – which was added at the last moment before the premier, indicates that the symphony was “written in America” rather than a “presentation of America”.

Piotr Maculewicz

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/