On the first weekend of July 2019 at 4.00 pm the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra invites you to the concerts of the series "Summer Concerts at Grochowska Street". The audience will learn about the music of Maklakiewicz's family as well as the music of French and Belgian composers.

The cycle of afternoon chamber music concerts returns to the home of Sinfonia Varsovia. Just like last year, each Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 p.m. features performances by well-known artists and rising stars on the classical music scene. There will be 30 concerts arranged by common themes: Not just for Orchestra, Japan, Moniuszko, Relax, Travelling, Improvisation, Old Warsaw. The music will be performed by traditional ensembles and some rare configurations, including a reed trio with saxophone and bass clarinet, a cello octet and a flute quartet. The works performed will feature music of many periods and genres – from the Baroque to opera arias, jazz and contemporary and improvised music.

The concert on 6 July will feature the Maklakiewicz Ensemble, composed of graduates and pedagogues of the music academies in Poznań and Wrocław. The ensemble will perform works by Jan Adam Maklakiewicz and his brother Franciszek Maklakiewicz as part of the project on the occasion of the 120th birth anniversary of the composer. On 7 July, talented young Polish artists: violinists Karolina Gutowska, Karolina Mikołajczy, Weronika Weiss and pianists Wojciech Pyrć and Weronika Chodakowska will perform works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Maurycy Moszkowski, Eugene Ysaÿe and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information available at: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org