Łomża | "Composing Commissions" – premiere of "Cascades" by Alicja Gronau

The world premiere of Alicja Gronau's Cascades will take place on 1 October 2020 at 6.30 p.m. at the Cultural Centre of Catholic Schools in Łomża.

Composer and music theorist Alicja Gronau (PhD, Habil.) is the head of the Department of Music Theory and the 20th and 21st Century Polish Music Studio at the Department of Composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She is a member of the Polish Composers' Union and the Polish Society for Contemporary Music. Since 2002 she has been a chapter member of the "Fryderyk" Award of the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. She won a number of composition awards, and in 2011 she was awarded the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage's Medal for Merit to Culture "Gloria Artis". Her latest piece, Cascades for cello and string orchestra, was written as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme, carried out by the Institute of Music and Dance. The piece will be premiered by the Witold Lutosławski Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra in Łomża conducted by Jan Miłosz Zarzycki with world-famous cellist Tomasz Strahl. The programme of the concert will also include Cello Concerto in C major Hob. VIIb: 1 by Joseph Haydn and Eine kleine Nachtmusik KV 525 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The concert will be preceded by a meeting with the composer (5.30 p.m., Cultural Centre of Catholic Schools).

Admission to the event is free. Live broadcast of the meeting at: www.facebook.com/filharmonialomza 

More information at: http://www.filharmonia.lomza.pl/wydarzenia/najblizsze-koncerty/item/629-kaskady.html