Warsaw | 2nd International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe "Eufonie"

The 2nd edition of the International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe "Eufonie" will take place in Warsaw on 15-23 November 2019, featuring 640 artists from 20 countries, 15 concerts, 8 orchestras, 3 world premiers and 7 Polish premiers.

"Eufonie" is a music festival, referring to the tradition of the regional community of most countries today referred to as Central and Eastern Europe, stretching from the Balkans, through Romania and Austria, the Visegrad Group countries, the Ukraine and Belarus, to the Baltic countries, sometimes extended to Scandinavia. This area is a fascinating melting pot of influences from the East and the West, boiling with cultural energy which often determined the identity of nations deprived of their own countries. The Festival present music of different eras and styles. This year's programme offer is richer and more diverse compared to the first edition. The repertoire is expanded to include ethnic and early music, as well as theater and dance performances.

In addition to the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, the festival will feature the international I, CULTURE Orchestra, which brings together musicians from the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Not only recognized artists from our region will appear on the festival stages, but also soloists and ensembles from other parts of the world, including United States, Great Britain, Luxembourg or Spain. The programme presented this year will allow the audience not only to become more familiar with the repertoire and musical performance of our neighbors, but also countries not yet presented at the Festival: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova.

An important part of this year's "Eufonie" are works commissioned by the National Center for Culture, which will have their premieres during the Festival: Song of Death – a unique spectacle with the participation of Jan Frycz and Adam Strug based on the text of Master Polycarp’s Dialogue with Death found by prof. Wiesław Wydra, and Incantations performance created by the electronic music composer Aleksandra Bilińska, singer Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska and choreographer Jacek Przybyłowicz..

The festival is organized by the National Center for Culture thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The Polish Composers' Union is the festival's partner. The president of the Polish Composers' Union and the director of POLMIC Mieczysław Kominek is the chairman of the programme board.

More information at: https://nck.pl/projekty-kulturalne/projekty/festiwal-eufonie/