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Quartessence - a child of the Royal String Quartet - has reached the age of majority. The Birthday Festival will be held between the 20^th and 22^nd of June, 2022 at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio. Admission free!

This year, due to the situation in the world, the birthday festival will be neither grand nor festive. A lot of emotions await us thanks to the music performed by the Hosts, as well as a specially invited guest - Zoltan Almashi - one of the most interesting cellists and composers in Ukraine. Together with the Royal String Quartet he will play the famous Franz Schubert String Quintet in C major, one of the artist's last works. The evening will be inaugurated by Black Angels of Georg Crumb - the composer who died this year, called his work ‘a kind of parable about our tormented modern world’ and wrote about it "in tempore belli" (in the time of war). The composition, created in 1970, was a strong voice of opposition to the war in Vietnam and is unfortunately still valid today.

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Detailed programme: https://royalstringquartet.pl/ 

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On the 19^th of June, 2022 at 6.00 p.m. at the premises of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, a concert on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of joining part of Upper Silesia to Poland will take place. José Maria Florêncio will conduct the orchestra while  pianist Piotr Sałajczyk will perform as soloist.

In June, one hundred years have passed since the entry of the Polish Army into Katowice. After three uprisings and a plebiscite, Poland officially took over the power in the part of Upper Silesia that had been assigned to it. On the 20^th of June, 1922, General Stanisław Szeptycki, at the head of his troops, entered the Katowice market square from the side of Szopienice, welcomed by the inhabitants and the authorities. The culmination of this symbolic event was the signing of the Act of Acquisition of Upper Silesia by the government of the Republic of Poland less than a month later, on the 16^th of July.

Katowice is celebrating this exceptional anniversary with a series of events that will culminate in a concert of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.

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More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/koncert-z-okazji-100-lecia-przylaczenia-czesci-gornego-slask 

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The Music Society of Silesian Chamber Musicians invites you to a series of concerts 'Music by Weight', which will take place on June 19 - August 18, 2022 in Będzin and Tarnowskie Góry. Plastic caps are the key to all events of this artistic eco-project - they constitute an admission ticket.

The concerts will take place at the Mieroszewski Palace in Będzin and the Palace in Rybna. Upon the admission to the concert the ‘tickets’ (caps) will be collected and handed over to the city's ‘heart-baskets’. The concert repertoire was planned in such a way that whole families could participate in the event: the programme includes Polish contemporary music (among other works by Wojciech Kilar, Henryk Kuźniak, Dariusz Zboch), a music fairy tale, masterpieces of classical music, tango, Neapolitan songs and music from such films as Mission, Cinema Paradiso, Promised Land, Vabank.

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From the 18^th of June to the 11^th of November, 2022, the 10^th Lower Silesian Music Festival will take place. The theme of the jubilee edition is ‘Romantic soul’ and the programme refers to the celebration of the Year of Polish Romanticism. The event will be inaugurated by an extraordinary recital of Lidia Grychtołówna at the Spa Theater in Duszniki-Zdrój.

The main idea of ​​the Lower Silesian Music Festival is to present the most outstanding works of music culture, both Polish and international, in the interiors of theaters, palaces, castles and churches in Lower Silesia. The programme of this year's Festival includes works by Polish and foreign composers from the Romantic period and references to them in contemporary music. Musicians such as Magdalena Cornelius-Kulig (artistic director of the Festival), accordionist and composer Maciej Zimka, Dariusz Wójcik (director of the Open Theater in Gdańsk), pianist Marek Szlezer, soprano Małgorzata Rodek, organists Luigi Vincenzo, Stefano Manfredini, Stefano Pellini, flutists Alma di Gaetano, Janos Balint, clarinetist Giordano Muolo, as well as the Krakow Philharmonic Choir and the Aighetta Quartett will take part in the event.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Music’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Detailed progremme: https://www.facebook.com/DolnoslaskiFestiwalMuzyczny 

Violinist Jakub Jakowicz and pianist Łukasz Chrzęszczyk will perform as part of the ‘Polish Music Scene’ programme co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance and Philharmonics throughout Poland. The concerts will take place on the 19^th of June, 2022 at 7 p.m. at the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Cracow and on the 22^nd of June at 6.30 p.m. at the Witold Lutosławski Chamber Philharmonic in Łomża.

The concert programme includes works by four composers representing the first two generations of Polish composers born in the 20^th century: the older ones Artur Malawski (1904-1957) and Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), and two peers - Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010) and Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020). They are all linked by over two decades of sharing a common reality, which is full of extremely significant events and leaves an indisputable mark on the way we perceive the world.