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In the summer months, from 7 July to 18 August 2019, continuously for 28 years in Rzeszów and also in three other locations in the Subcarpathian region, organ and chamber music concerts as well as oratorio and artist performances will take place as part of The Sucarpathian Organ Festival.

The concerts will take place in modern and historic temples of the capital of the region: the Cathedral, the Bernardine Basilica, the Saint Cross Church as well as the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Zalesie and, for the first time, the Church of Saint Roch in Słocina, equipped with a high-class concert organs. In addition, traditionally two important sacral buildings of the Subcarpatian region are included in the festival calendar: Abbey of Jaroslav and the Jesuits Basilica in Stara Wieś. The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Lutcza debuts this year as a concert venue. As a result of the systematic expansion of the geographical area of ​​the festival, the Organ and Chamber Music Evenings in the Cathedral and Churches of Rzeszów with accompanying cycles this year takes the name of the Subcarpathian Organ Festival.

The virtuosos of organs from Poland, Germany, Italy and Hungary were invited to participate in this year's concerts. The programme will include chamber and vocal music with the accompaniment of organs, oratorio works of Stanisław Moniuszko on the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, as well as an artistic spoken word reminiscent of the persistent message of eminent Poles: Saint John Paul II, bl. Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko and cardinal Stefan Wyszyński.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: www.arsproarte.pl 

On 3 July 2019 the H. Wieniawski Lublin Philharmonic will host an unprecedented music event devoted to the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin. The concert at 6pm will feature works written by Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian artists.

All these nationalities inhabited the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The meeting of these four cultures, permeating each other for centuries, will thus celebrate the 450th anniversary of the signing of the Union of Lublin Act. The concert will be a unique opportunity to listen to both well-known works and compositions that are rarely performed.

The concert organised by the Lublin Branch of the Association of Polish Musicians will present a cross-section of works from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, representing various genres: from opera arias, songs and solo instrumental works to traditional folk melodies. Next to the works of Stanisław Moniuszko and Fryderyk Chopin, great ambassadors of Polishness, there will be compositions by other Polish composers (Jelski, Joteyko, Noskowski, Niewiadomski) and artists living in the pre-partition Poland and Lithuania (Holland, Stepowyj, Čiurlionis). The programme will also feature several classic compositions for traditional Belarusian cymbals.

The "Concert of dialogue" will feature musicians associated with the Lublin region: singers Anna Barska, Dorota Szostak-Gąska, Natalia Skipor, Mariola Zagojska, Jakub Gąska, violinist Magdalena Maciąg, and pianist Agnieszka Schulz-Brzyska as well as guest artists from Poland and abroad: Natalia Kovalenko from Ukraine, Maria Kuczyńska from Belarus and Aleksander Ładysz. The concert will be hosted by Andrzej Gładysz.

Admission free!

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The 19th Music Gardens Festival will be held on 30 June – 28 July 2019 in the Grand Courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, under a huge, air-conditioned tent, which can accommodate 1000 spectators.

The Music Gardens Festival has been taking place in Warsaw since 2001. Every year, the Festival programme is comprised of rebroadcasts of the best opera and ballet productions (from, among other houses, the Metropolitan Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre, as well as the Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals), live concerts – both symphonic and chamber music – as well as music films and film recordings of concerts. Also a special educational and artistic programme for children is organized as part of the festival: the Children’s Music Gardens.

The programme of the 19th Gardens will include 21 film screenings and 5 live concerts. The festival prologue will feature film music of Krzysztof Komeda, Henryk Kuźniak and Jerzy Matuszkiewicz. During the inauguration concert, Janusz Wawrowski, who plays the Stradivarius violin from 1685, together with the Warsaw Players' string orchestra will present, among others, works by Mieczysław Karłowicz and Mieczysław Weinberg. Songs from Moniuszko's Songbook for Home Use will be presented on 15 July in the original interpretation by Agata Zubel, Andrzej Bauer and Cezary Duchnowski.

Since 2008, another inspiration for successive editions of the Festival has been the culture and art of the countries taking over the leadership of the European Council on the day the festival begins, i.e. in the second half of each year. This year, no less than three countries will serve as the Guests of Honor: Finland, which begins its presidency at the European Council on 1 July 2019; Romania, which will lead the Council in the first half of 2019; and, for the second time, Austria. On 8 July, an evening devoted to Leonardo da Vinci will include a concert of Sławomir Zubrzycki on viola organista, an instrument invented by Leonardo da Vinci.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: https://www.ogrodymuzyczne.pl/ 

29 czerwca 2019 roku rozpocznie się III edycja Festiwalu Baltic Souvenir, która potrwa do 6 lipca. Słońce, szum fal i ciepły piasek pod stopami to cudowne wspomnienia znad morza, które powinno mieć każde dziecko. A gdyby tak dorzucić do nich bajkową muzykę, której najmłodsi wraz z rodzicami będą mogli wysłuchać zupełnie za darmo na trzech plenerowych wydarzeniach w Trójmieście?

Zainauguruje Festiwal koncert w Muszli Koncertowej przy Placu Grunwaldzkim w Gdyni. Tam dzieci i ich rodzice będą mogli zobaczyć i posłuchać widowiska Witajcie w naszej bajce, w którego programie znajdą się najsłynniejsze melodie i piosenki z bajek z całego świata, w tym Krainy Lodu, Reksia, Koziołka Matołka, Gumisiów, Zaplątanych, Króla Lwa i wielu, wielu więcej! Hity te wyśpiewają Izabela Pawletko i Bogdan Smagacki.

Następnego dnia artyści przeniosą się na scenę plenerową przy Polskiej Filharmonii Bałtyckiej w Gdańsku, gdzie ugoszczą samego Ambrożego Kleksa. Tym razem ekscentryczny profesor poprowadzi wykłady w ramach Letniej Akademii Pana Kleksa. Absolwenci tej prestiżowej placówki edukacyjnej doskonale pamiętają piosenki o Kaczce Dziwaczce czy Na wyspach Bergamuta – na Ołowiance będzie okazja posłuchać ich w aranżacjach Beniamina Baczewskiego, w wykonaniu Aleksandry Lis i Bogdana Smagackiego.

Ostatniego dnia Festiwalu Baltic Souvenir, tym razem w Sopocie, wybrzmią dźwięki opery skomponowanej specjalnie dla dzieci w oparciu o słynną baśń braci Grimm Królewna Śnieżka. Autorem tego niezwykłego dzieła jest dyrygent i kompozytor Piotr Staniszewski. Dedykowana najmłodszym, przybliża im wspaniały świat muzyki klasycznej i rozbudza zainteresowanie formą opery. Baśniowe treści uzupełniają multimedia i wspaniałe kostiumy.

Natalia Walewska

Szczegółowy program – na stronie wydarzenia http://www.balticsouvenir.pl/