Warsaw | 20th "Chopin – Górecki” Festival and Music Course

The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw invites you to take part in the 20th anniversary edition of the Festival and Music Course "Chopin – Górecki", which will take place on 9-19 July 2019.

The event will fature individual lessons of piano, organ, string instruments, woodwinds, brass, accordion, harp, guitar, percussion, chamber music, vocal and composition with the best teachers, as well as concerts and lectures. The Festival gives the participants the opportunity to draw inspiration from the very source of the rich heritage of the greatest Polish composers from Chopin to Górecki.

The Inauguration Concert featuring the Kwadrofonik ensemble will take place on 9 July at 7.00 pm at the FCUM. The subsequent concerts will be given by cellist Tomasz Strahl, pianist Janusz Olejniczak, drummer Leszek Lorent and composer Dariusz Przybylski. Dr Aldona Nawrocka will give a lecture entitled Polish music of the twentieth century – from K. Szymanowski to P. Szymański, Prof. Andrzej Dutkiewicz will give a lecture entitle From Szymanowski to Górecki – Polish contemporary piano music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The lectures will feature a presentation of selected Polish piano pieces by contemporary composers. 
A concert of the course participants will take place at the end of the Festival .

More information at: https://www.chg.chopin.edu.pl