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5th edition of the Polish Music Festival in Moscow will be held between 12th and 16th of November 2015. The event line-up includes 3 concerts.

On November 12 TWOgether Duo, i.e. Magdalena Bojanowicz (cello) and Maciej Frąckiewicz (accordion) will perform compositions by contemporary Polish composers such as Cezary Duchnowski, Tomasz Szczepanik, Jan Duszyński, Aleksander Nowak, Mikołaj Majkusiak, and Wojciech Ziemowit Zych. The concert begins the cooperation with the International Contemporary Music Festival “Moscow Autumn”.

On November 14 the Moscow Philharmonic will host Romantic Quartet (Vladislav Naroditsky and Michael Bolkhovitin – violin, Andrey Usov – viola, Sergey Astashonok – cello). The ensemble will perform 20th-century String Quartets (composed by Grażyna Bacewicz and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki), as well as premiere String Quartet No. 5 by Aleksander Tchaikovsky.

On November 16 Sinfonietta Cracovia and French clarinetist Michel Lethiec under Jurek Dybał will present works by Krzysztof Penderecki, Mieczysław Weinberg, Maciej Bałenkowski, and Jakub Ciupiński.

The Festival is organized by the Krakow Industrial Society and directed by the Society’s vice-president Mariusz Szymański.

More information: www.polskamuz.pl

“Discovering Paderewski” International Festival in Lviv has already become one of the most important cultural events in Ukraine. The fourth edition of the festival, held between 5th and 15th of November 2015, aims at promoting Polish culture and getting eastern neighbours acquainted with the treasures of national musical repertoire at the highest, global level.

This year the Lviv Opera House will host a unique Polish Folk Song and Dance Ensemble “Mazowsze” which is going to perform Jan Stefani’s opera Cracovians and Highlanders (libr. By Wojciech Bogusławski) – the opera that dates back to the 18th century and symbolically represents the structure of the Polish society before the third partition of Poland. The organizers invited Krzysztof Penderecki to conduct the orchestra performing his works (Sinfonietta No. 1, Agnus Dei, Chaconne) and accept the honorary degree of Doctor of Honoris Causa of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy. The presence of such artists as pianist Adam Wodnicki, conductor and cellist Andrzej Bauer and DagaDana band will transform the fourth edition of the festival into a great Polish music celebration.

The event will also be marked with the discussion panel entitled “Geopolitical aspects of Polish-Ukrainian relations during the Second Commonwealth of Poland and Ukrainian People’s Republic in the time of Ignacy Jan Paderewski”. It will be moderated by the famous Ukrainian writer, cultural studies and political scientist Taras Voznyak. It has also become a well-established tradition to conduct the Paderewski award ceremony: bronze statuettes will be given to those people who have been particularly successful in working towards Polish-Ukrainian partnership, as well as to those who promote Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Polish culture abroad. The idea of organizing an artistic event associated with the name of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, an outstanding pianist, composer, politician and benefactor, provides an opportunity of mutual cultural enrichment of two nations, Polish and Ukrainian, which seems to be one of the most crucial issues nowadays. The festival is held under the honorary patronage of Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Adam Struzik - Marshal of Mazovia Voivodeship.

More information: www.paderewski.eu, Festival's Facebook profile.

“Discovering Paderewski” International Festival in Lviv has already become one of the most important cultural events in Ukraine. The fourth edition of the festival, held between 5th and 15th of November 2015, aims at promoting Polish culture and getting eastern neighbours acquainted with the treasures of national musical repertoire at the highest, global level.

This year the Lviv Opera House will host a unique Polish Folk Song and Dance Ensemble “Mazowsze” which is going to perform Jan Stefani’s opera Cracovians and Highlanders (libr. By Wojciech Bogusławski) – the opera that dates back to the 18th century and symbolically represents the structure of the Polish society before the third partition of Poland. The organizers invited Krzysztof Penderecki to conduct the orchestra performing his works (Sinfonietta No. 1, Agnus Dei, Chaconne) and accept the honorary degree of Doctor of Honoris Causa of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy. The presence of such artists as pianist Adam Wodnicki, conductor and cellist Andrzej Bauer and DagaDana band will transform the fourth edition of the festival into a great Polish music celebration.

The event will also be marked with the discussion panel entitled “Geopolitical aspects of Polish-Ukrainian relations during the Second Commonwealth of Poland and Ukrainian People’s Republic in the time of Ignacy Jan Paderewski”. It will be moderated by the famous Ukrainian writer, cultural studies and political scientist Taras Voznyak. It has also become a well-established tradition to conduct the Paderewski award ceremony: bronze statuettes will be given to those people who have been particularly successful in working towards Polish-Ukrainian partnership, as well as to those who promote Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Polish culture abroad. The idea of organizing an artistic event associated with the name of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, an outstanding pianist, composer, politician and benefactor, provides an opportunity of mutual cultural enrichment of two nations, Polish and Ukrainian, which seems to be one of the most crucial issues nowadays. The festival is held under the honorary patronage of Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Adam Struzik - Marshal of Mazovia Voivodeship.

More information: www.paderewski.eu, Festival's Facebook profile.

Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiej Filharmonii Bałtyckiej zagra pod dyrekcją Tadeusza Wojciechowskiego 4 listopada 2015 roku w Soborze Chrystusa Zbawiciela w Kaliningradzie. Dzień później wystąpi razem z Dmitrijem Szyszkinem, laureatem szóstej nagrody tegorocznego Konkursu Chopinowskiego, w Sali Czajkowskiego w Filharmonii Moskiewskiej.

W programie pierwszego koncertu znajdzie się Polonez z opery Eugeniusz Oniegin Piotra Czajkowskiego oraz I koncert fortepianowy e-moll op. 11  i II koncert fortepianowy  f-moll op. 21 Fryderyka Chopina. Podczas koncertu 5 listopada 2015 po raz kolejny zabrzmią koncerty fortepianowe Chopina, a także Uwertura do opery Carmola Karola Kurpińskiego. Filharmonikom towarzyszyć będą laureaci XVII Międzynarodowego Konkursu Pianistycznego im. Fryderyka Chopina.