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The 30^th International Festival of Organ Music ‘Organy Archikatedry’, one of the most important organ festivals in Poland, will be held between July 2 - September 17, 2023 at the Warsaw Cathedral (Świętojańska 8). This year, during the Festival on Sundays at 4.00 p.m., recognized artists from Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Poland will perform.

The jubilee edition will include: music by Mieczysław Surzyński, Fryderyk Chopin and Feliks Nowowiejski, who performed in this church at the beginning of the 20^th century. Thanks to the large scope of the event, the work of Polish composers is effectively promoted.

Detailed programme: https://kapitula.org/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 2^nd of July, 2023 at 17.00 the Silesian Philharmonic invites you to the first of the summer concerts. The Silesian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet will perform an extremely colorful and energetic programme and the premiere of Sabina Meck's Concerto for Percussion Instruments and String Orchestra.

Together with drummer Krzysztof Nowakowski, the Philharmonic will also perform works by the soloist of the evening, arranged by Piotr Trust, which will show the possibilities and spectrum of sounds of percussion instruments: Montenegro, Colors of Autumn or We are growing. We will also hear Leoš Janáček's Suite for String Orchestra and popular music hits arranged by Dariusz Zboch.

Everything will take place as part of the multimedia series ‘PGE Holograms’: a holographic projection will be used during the concert.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/w-rytmach-poludniowych-nowakowski-shemet-slaska-orkiestra-kameralna/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Some may be surprised - the premiere of a ballet performance in the theater paint shop... Choreographer Antonina Jakubowska for her ballet Niobe with music by Jan Gromski has just chosen the paint shop of the Grand Theater in Łódź with its specificity and atmosphere. The meeting with the art of dance in an unusual setting will take place on the 1^st of July, 2023 at 21.30.

The performance was produced with the scholarship funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2021-2022.

Ticket information: https://www.operalodz.com/NIOBE_-_STUDIUM_MILOSCI,29,545 

The 19^th edition of the Festival of Polish Music consists of five consecutive July weekends filled with carefully selected Polish music from the 16^th to the 20^th century, supplemented with masterpieces of world music, all performed by recognized artists from around the world. Between the 1^st and 29^th of July 2023 we will hear, among others: works by Józef Michał Poniatowski, Fryderyk Chopin and Ignacy Jan Paderewski, masterpieces for the baroque lute, as well as the most beautiful arias from rarely performed 19^th-century Polish operas.

During the inauguration we will hear i.a. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 by Fryderyk Chopin (the Hungarian piano virtuoso János Balázs as the soloist) and the Serenade Op. 2 by Mieczysław Karłowicz performed by Sinfonietta Cracovia conducted by Maciej Tworek

Performance of the finalist of the 16^th Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań will be an extraordinary event. 21-year-old Dayoon You from South Korea will perform works by Henryk Wieniawski, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Witold Lutosławski.

Detailed programme: http://www.fmp.org.pl/pl/program/ 

23^rd Ryszard Kubiak Musical Gardens Festival is subtitled 'Dance Gardens!' - this year Festival events will be related to dance and will take place in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio and in the Ballroom of the Royal Castle. The programme includes 26 events: 6 live concerts and 20 film screenings. On the 22^nd and 23^rd of July, during the Picnic in the Royal Castle Gardens, three films appreciated by the audience in the previous Musical Gardens edition will be screened. Admission to the Picnic is free.

During the inaugurating concert at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Michał Klauza will perform among others City Sketches by Henryk Wars and Kitten Climbs on the Fence Suite by Henryk Czyż. The programme of the Sinfonia Varsovia Camerata concert at the Royal Castle will include Grażyna Bacewicz's String Quartet No. 4.

Details - on the website: https://www.ogrodymuzyczne.pl/