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We have three harpsichord music concerts, three world premieres and contemporary music workshops conducted by Dr. Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz with an original lecture entitled ‘Elżbieta Chojnacka. Inspiration and passion. The 2nd Festival will be held from the 29^th of September to the 1^st of October, 2023 at the Elżbieta Chojnacka Palace in Rybna.

During the inaugurating concert, the harpsichordist Hanna Balcerzak will premiere ‘Invention’ by Philip Czapłowski. The programme will also include, among others: works by Zygmunt Krauze and Marian Sawa.

During Saturday's concert, harpsichord tangos (sic!) from the collection of Elżbieta Chojnacka (M. Nyman, M. Ohana, J. Wiener) will be performed. There will also be works by the king of tango (Astor Piazzolla), contemporary composers (Tomasz Kamieniak and Krzysztof Olczak) and further premieres. For the first time we will hear ‘Sonata for two flutes and piano’ by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil and ‘Tango for accordion and harpsichord’ by Leszek Kołodziejski. The performances will be Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz, Leszek Kołodziejski, Agata Kielar-Długosz, Łukasz Długosz and Andrzej Jungiewicz.

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Concert on the 29^th of September, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at the Silesian Philharmonic will be a herald of the upcoming 11^th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors. Relationships with the Patron of the Competition will be reflected in the programme.

Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet, who will be a member of the jury in November, will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Stanisław Skrowaczewski - honorary chairman of the jury of the 7^th Fitelberg Competition, as well as the 7^th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, which will effectively conclude this musical meeting.

The concert will open with Karol Szymanowski's Concert Overture in E major - the first orchestral piece written by him, premiered in 1906 by Grzegorz Fitelberg. A few years later, the Patron of the International Conductors' Competition, together with Szymanowski, prepared a new instrumentation of the work - a version that will be played on the 29^th of September at the Silesian Philharmonic.

More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/beethoven-vii-symfonia-grzybowski-shemet-orkiestra-symfoniczna/ 

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‘Dialogues - music meetings in historic art studios’ is a new series of micro-concerts in spaces where the most important Warsaw artists worked: painters, sculptors, fashion designers, photographers. Music will enter into dialogue with visual arts during seven events that will take place from the 28^th of September to the 14^th of December, 2023. Admission is free!

The protagonists of these small, interesting meetings will be not only the performing artists, but also the owners and guardians of the studios, listeners and - finally - the spaces themselves. Each meeting consists of a concert and a curator's tour of the studio - the hosts are the current guardians of the studio or artists working there.
Joanna Freszel, Jakub Jakowicz, Ewa Leszczyńska, Maciej Kułakowski, Messages Quartet will present a specially prepared programme corresponding to the work of the selected artist and the place and spirit of the studio. Moreover, during each concert an improvised piece will be presented, happening ‘here and now’, inspired by the work of the artist to whom the studio belongs and the place itself.

Admission to all events is free, however due to limited number of places, in order to participate please register at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Let's experience a unique evening with music by Polish composers performed by the winners of the first three prizes of the 3rd International Polish Music Competition! On the 26^th of September, 2023 at 6 p.m., the chamber ensembles Aka Duo, Reverie Piano Duo, Quintessence and pianists Georgi Vasilev, Jan Wachowski and Kiryl Keduk will perform at the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Aka Duo are the music record holders of this year's Competition - they won four awards: the main 1^st Prize in the ‘Chamber Ensembles’ category, the Award for the best performance of a chamber piece by Miłosz Magin, the Award for the best performance of a piece composed after 1945 by the ZAiKS Association of Authors and the Award of the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC in the form of annual media patronage for the best performance of a work composed after 1945. The Japanese duo will perform Subito by Witold Lutosławski, Andante by Miłosz Magin and Moldavian Rhapsody by Mieczysław Wajnberg.
Bulgarian pianist Georgi Vasilev won the 1^st Prize in the ‘Pianists’ category and a Special Prize for his performance of Miłosz Magin's Piano Concerto; in Warsaw, he will perform Mazurka in B minor by Karol Mikuli and Preludes Suite by Kazimierz Serocki.

Ticket information: https://nimit.pl/wydarzenia/koncert-laureatow-iii-miedzynarodowego-konkursu-muzyki-polskiej/