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In 2024, Sinfonietta Cracovia will discover new areas of music for the Cracow audience together with musicians of the famous London Sinfonietta. The concert as part of the "Sinfonietta Nova" series will not only be a meeting with artists from London, but also an encounter with new repertoire. Premiere of Threnody in Memory of Krzysztof Penderecki, created by Zygmunt Krauze will take place on the 15^th of February at the Łaźnia Nowa Theater at 6:00 p.m.

The curator of the concerts of the Sinfonietta Nova series in 2024 is Andrew Burke, head of the London Sinfonietta, and during three concerts (February 15, April 7 and February 20), the leaders of the London orchestra will join in making music together with Sinfonietta Cracovia.

The concert on the 15^th of February will be a performance with the concertmaster of the London Sinfonietta, Jonathan Morton, and a journey through the music of the 20^th and 21^st centuries: from the works of Krzysztof Penderecki, through the monumental soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood, to the ambient sounds of contemporary artists and the premiere of a new piece by Zygmunt Krauze with with the participation of the composer himself, who will play the piano.

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Tickets: https://www.sinfonietta.pl/koncerty/london-calling 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Witold Lutosławski would have celebrated his 111^th birthday this year and would probably have written a miniature on this occasion. He condensed what he wanted to say and was against exaggeration and talkativeness. On the 15^th of February, 2024 at 7:30 p.m., his miniatures will be presented by a chamber ensemble, and the soprano Magdalena Lucjan, winner of the last edition of the Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition, will perform as a soloist.

We will hear the spectacular Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941), played during the occupation in the Warsaw "Aria" café, the pedagogical pieces Dance Preludes (1954), Epitaph (1980) and Grave (1981) dedicated to deceased friends, and his last piece - Subito (1992) for violin and piano. We will also hear short songs Chantefleurs et chantefables (1990) set to surrealist poems for children, arranged by Eugeniusz Knapik for voice and piano.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/lutoslawski-in-memoriam-koncert-w-110-rocznice-urodzin-i-30 

The 15^th edition of the “Nowe Epifanie” Festival organized by the Center for the Thought of John Paul II in Warsaw will start on the 14^th of February and last until the 24^th of March, 2024. The programme is divided into three blocks: concerts, theater shows and films. The events will be accompanied by meetings with artists, admission to which is free. The theme of the anniversary edition is: "Why are you confused?"

In the Gospel of St. Luke, Jesus asks his disciples this question immediately after his suffering, death and resurrection. This year's theme focuses on illness, pain, suffering, death, and difficult situations that leave people in a state of consternation and confusion.

During the "Piosenki Zmieszane" concert (February 21), Adam Strug's songs to poems by Mickiewicz, Zacharasiewicz, Leśmian, Tuwim, Lechoń, Grochowiak and Rymkiewicz will be performed by the author and an instrumental ensemble. The repertoire of the concert "Golgotha" (March 9) by Jerycho ensemble consists of old religious folk songs about the Mystery of the Passion of the Lord. Dziczka ensemble will perform religious songs (so-called psalms), taken from recordings of authentic performers from Eastern Ukraine, Polesie, and Northern Podlasie (March 22).

Festival website: www.noweepifanie.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 15^th anniversary Leo Festival will be held at the National Forum of Music on May 10-19, 2024. Christian Danowicz, artistic director of the Festival, invites you to this event.

“Inspired by the book Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, which deals with the issues of movement and time, I would like to encourage joint reflection on these universal issues during this year's Leo Festival and look at them through the prism of music and dance.”

Detailed programme - on the website: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/festiwale/leo-festiwal 

The Nowa Miodowa Foundation and Music School Complex No. 1 in Warsaw invite you to a new concert series in Nowa Miodowa - "Music Lessons". The title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, because it's not exactly about lessons and not only about music... The first two concerts of the series in 2024 - on the 13^th of February and the 12^th of April - will feature performances by excellent musicians who are also teachers at Nowa Miodowa: violinist Janusz Wawrowski (accompanied by Tymoteusz Bies at the piano) and pianist Filip Wojciechowski (with Trio) and pianist Marek Bracha.

The upcoming concert is a real musical meeting with titled Polish artists, winners of many prestigious international competitions. Janusz Wawrowski and Tymoteusz Bies will perform Sonata da Camera and Humoresque by Grażyna Bacewicz, Ballade in G minor, Op. 23 and Waltz in E flat major, Op. 18 by Fryderyk Chopin, and Prelude No. 21 BWV 886 by Johann Sebastian Bach in B flat major.

Jazz interpretations of Polish music will be performed by an ensemble performing continuously since 2000. In the second part of the concert, pianist and composer Filip Wojciechowski, double bassist Paweł Pańta and drummer Patryk Dobosz will return to Bacewicz's works and present Oberek, Taniec Mazowiecki and Lullaby arranged by Wojciechowski.