The Academy of Music in Łódź invites you on January 17, 2019 at 6.00 p.m. to the inauguration ceremony of the year of Grażyna Bacewicz on the 110th birth anniversary and the 50th death anniversary of the Academy's patron.

This important event for the academic community will feature the String Orchestra PRIMUZ of the Music Academy in Łódź under the baton of Łukasz Błaszczyk, performing Bacewicz's works (Concerto and Divertimento for string orchestra). A group of rhythmics students will also perform a special choreography to Divertimento. The ceremony will be complemented by a screening of a documentary on the life and work of Grażyna Bacewicz.

Grażyna Bacewicz – an outstanding composer and violinist – took her first lessons at the Helena Kijeńska-Dobkiewiczowa Conservatory in Łódź. After the war, she lectured briefly at the State Higher School of Music – today's Academy of Music, which in 1999 adopted the name Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz. The inauguration ceremony will start a year full of events related to the patron, including the 2nd International Violin Competition, the 6th Grazyna Bacewicz International Composer Competition and the publication of a special publication of the Department of Composition, Theory of Music, Conducting, Rhythmics and Music Education of the Academy of Music in Łódź.

Admission to the inauguration ceremony is free.

Detailed programme at: http://www.amuz.lodz.pl/pl/koncerty-i-wydarzenia-zapowiedzi/styczen-2019/153332-uroczysta-inauguracja-obchodow-roku-grazyny-bacewicz