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On the 3^rd of September, 2023 at 17.00 in the Lublin Philharmonic, a jubilee concert will take place on the occasion of the 125^th anniversary of the Henryk WIeniawski Music Society in Lublin, which will also inaugurate the 12^th S. Serwaczyński Violin Competition. Admission to the concert is free.

Violin Competition named after Stanisław Serwaczyński is a permanent event organized every three years. The organizer of the Competition, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Lublin, is Henryk Wieniawski Music Society.

The September concert will feature the Radom Chamber Orchestra conducted by Szymon Morus, organist Maciej Zakrzewski, violinists Lucjan Szaliński-Bałwas and Marcin David Król

Presented works will be: Caprice No. 1 Op. 18 and Obertas No. 1 Op. 19 by Henryk Wieniawski, Variations on the Melody of ‘Hava Nagila’ by Ewelina Nowicka, Orawa by Wojciech Kilar, and premiere works by Harvey Hope.

Additional information: https://wieniawski.lublin.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the project ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability’ at the Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Composers' Union on the 2^nd of September, 2023 at 11.00, lectures on the relationship between music and ecology will be open to the public.

We will have the opportunity to listen to the following speeches in English: Music, sound, nature by Prof. dr hab. Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek, Art, cognition, nature - the festival as an expression of the cognitive imperative and the ethos of searching for the truth by the director of the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Jerzy Kornowicz, and Objectophones: the use of everyday objects as instruments by the composer Wojciech Błażejczyk.

Project website: https://renmus.eu/ 

Commemorating the events that took place 84 years ago, the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir conducted by Bartosz Michałowski will pay tribute to the victims of World War II. The first of the concerts as part of the celebration of the 70^th anniversary of the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ will take place in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church of the Holy Trinity in Warsaw on the 1^st of September, 2023 at 19.00. Admission free!

The ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ programme was prepared as an artistic response to the events we have been witnessing since the 24^th of February, 2022. This date became a turning point that destroyed the sense of stability and security of the modern world.

The repertoire of the concert is a musical call for peace expressed in the music of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian composers. We will hear, among others Beatus vir by Łukasz Urbaniak and Sanctus (a prayer of gratitude) by Michał Ziółkowski.

Detailed programme: https://filharmonia.pl/repertuar/-dona-nobis-pacem-chor-fn 

On the 84^th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on the 1^st of September, 2023 at 19.45 in the Zamość Rotunda there will be a concert of the Karol Namysłowski Symphony Orchestra in Zamość conducted by Tadeusz Wicherek. Together with the soprano Ewa Tracz, they will perform the Third Symphony – ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ Op. 36 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

Symphony No. 3 was written in 1976, commissioned by the Südwestfunk radio station in Baden Baden. The premiere took place in Royan as part of the 14^th International Festival of Contemporary Art. The recording of the work in the interpretation of Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman in 1991 achieved over a million sales and won a gold record, which caused great interest in the Polish composer around the world.

The concert on the 1^st of September will be dedicated to all the inhabitants of Zamość and the surrounding area who were murdered and deported to concentration camps during World War II.

Free entrance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Celebrating the 300^th anniversary of granting Biała city rights, the organisers invite you to concerts in Bielsko-Biała between the 31st of August and the 16th of September. The baroque Ensemble Giardino di Delizie from Rome at the Sułkowski Castle, the Czech Philharmonic Quartet at Villa Sixta, and the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra with present the world premiere of the new work by Mikołaj Górecki and the most famous works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Respighi.

The workby Mikołaj Górecki was commissioned by the Temida Arts & Business Foundation and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The concerts will also include music by such Polish artists as Adam Jarzębski, Fryderyk Chopin, Wojciech Kilar, Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz.