The Polish jazz scene is alive and well, with significant contributions from both creative members of the young generation, as well as well-established artists creating timeless horizons in trends and styles. The latter group includes guitarist Janusz Strobel, who has been an active performer for 50 years! On the 26th of February 2022 at 7 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio Aniello Desiderio together with Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra and conductor Marek Wroniszewski will perform Strobel’s Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra for the first time.

Strobel has founded and led many ensembles, starting with the legendary Alber–Strobel duo. He is also a recognised composer, the author of many well-known songs, film scores and concert pieces.

Adam Wesołowski, a composer, conductor, pianist, musical theoretician and culture manager, is the Director of the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, as well as Director of the Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki International Festival. His piece Angels and Demons, to be performed at the concert, is dedicated to his children. It features an innovative sound in the form of ‘angelic singing’ that is performed mormorando (in a murmured fashion) by the orchestra musicians.

Dmitri Shostakovich finished his First Symphony in 1925, a composition he created intermittently over a rather long period of time using the work as his graduation piece. To this day, Symphony No. 1 fascinates listeners thanks to the richness of invention and unusual mastery, given the author’s youth, of the compositional technique. The Symphony will be performed at the concert as well.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Piotr Maculewicz

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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