Gdańsk | 62nd International Organ Music Festival in the Oliva Cathedral

62nd International Festival of Organ Music in the Oliva Cathedral – one of the three oldest music festivals in Poland – will take place between 28 June and 27 August 2019.

Once again, organ music will be performed in the historic Gdańsk Oliva Cathedral. The festival concerts will feature renowned organists from Poland and abroad who will present diverse repertoire of different musical periods and styles, as well as world and Polish premieres.

The inauguration concert will be devoted to Polish music. The evening will begin with Latin Mass in E flat major for mixed choir, strings and organ by Stanisław Moniuszko, whose 200th birth anniversary is celebrated this year. After the performance of the Academic Choir of the University of Gdańsk, Hanna Dys (organ) and Mirosław Pachowicz (bassoon) accompanied by the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jan Miłosz Zarzycki will perform works of Andrzej Panufnik and Mieczysław Surzyński.

Full programme available at: https://www.filharmonia.gda.pl/pl/