On February 11, 2019 at 7.00 p.m., the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw will host a concert of the Chamber String Orchestra of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań under the direction of Marcin Suszycki.

The programme of the concert will include works of Polish composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as Romanian folk dances BB 68, Sz. 56 by Béla Bartók. The evening will start with Poznań Poem, commissioned by the Poznań ensemble from Alina Kubik, a composer associated with the Wrocław Academy of Music. Concerto for accordion and string orchestra by Marcin Błażewicz will be performed by the Rector of FCUM Klaudiusz Baran, to whom the work was dedicated in 2012. The concert will end with Serenade for strings by Mieczysław Karłowicz, written during the composer's stay in Berlin in 1897 and inspired by Robert Volksmann's popular string serenades.

Free tickets available two weeks prior the concert at the University's main hall from Monday to Wednesday and on Friday from 4.00 to 7.00 p.m.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.