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A concert entitled "Varsovians sing (un)forbidden songs" will take place on 1 August 2019 at 8:30 p.m. on Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square. The yearly event organized by the Warsaw Rising Museum is a part of the celebrations of the 1944 rising.

The museum invites all interested in the history of Warsaw to commemorate that time and honor people who fought for Poland by singing together the insurgent songs. Special songbooks are prepared for this occasion, including songs by famous Polish composers and cultural activists: Karol Kurpiński, Andrzej Panufnik, Jan Ekier, Jan Markowski, Jerzy Dargiel and Kazimierz Oberfeld. This year, the repertoire will be presented by the Stokłosa Collective Orchestra, the Warsaw Violin Choir and soloists: Natalia Piotrowska, Sebastian Machalski and Kuba Jurzyk under the baton of Jan Stokłosa, who is also the author of the arrangements of the works. The concert will be hosted by Tomasz Wolny.

For those who will not be able to reach Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square, the concert will be broadcast live on TVP1 (from 8:35 p.m.).

Admission free.

More information at: https://www.1944.pl/ 

The upcoming concerts from the series "Summer with Sinfonia Varsovia" in the "Improviation" category will be held at 272 Grochowska Street on 4, 11, 18 and 25 August 2019. 

The August concerts in the Sinfonia Varsovia Concert Hall will feature Ars Nova early music instrumental ensemble, Cornu Copiae baroque orchestra and Atom String Quartet as well as soloists: soprano Katarzyna Bienias and pianist and harpsichordist Stanisław Łopuszyński. Additionally, Joanna Lichorowicz and Sławomir Greś will present early dances. The concerts repertoire will feature, among others, medieval and baroque music, Sephardic songs, as well as jazz arrangements of Krzysztof Penderecki's music.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org 

Organist Johannes Skudlik (Germany) and cellist Bartłomiej Pacan (Poland) will perform on 1 August 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Polanica-Zdrój as part of the 28th International Concerts of Organ and Chamber Music.

International Concerts of Organ and Chamber Music in Polanica-Zdrój is a festival presenting great works of classical and contemporary music performed by renowned artists from Poland and abroad. In addition to important artistic goals, the concerts play a significant educational role through lectures on the history of music as well as socio-cultural role by cultivating the centuries-old tradition of concertising in the Lower Silesian temples, raising the cultural and tourist attractiveness of the region and promoting Polish musical culture among tourists from abroad.

The programme of this year's edition of the Festival will include works by outstanding organ music composers (J.S. Bach, F. Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, J. Pachelbel, G.F. Handel et al.) as well as organ transcriptions of classical and contemporary instrumental music. On 1 August Johannes Skudlik, the artistic director of the organ festival in Palermo, and Bartłomiej Pacana, laureate of many cello competition, will present works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Vincent Dubois, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Léon Boëllmann.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

DOWNLOAD: Festival Programme

42nd Karol Szymanowski Music Days in Zakopane will last from 28 July to 4 August  2019. This year's programme is built around the figures of Grażyna Bacewicz, Mieczysław Wajnberg and Krzysztof Penderecki.

These three great Polish composers celebrate their round anniversaries this year. Their works will be performed in a place important for Polish contemporary music – in Zakopane, where the modernity was born. The programme includes special arrangements of Karol Szymanowski's works for various instrumental ensembles, commissioned by the organizers of the festival. The compositions will be presented by winners of the 1st Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition held in Katowice in 2018, as well as laureates of the 1st Wanda Wiłkomirska Violin Competition whose patron was a keen admirer of Karol Szymanowski's music. The novelty of this year's edition are concerts in places important for the music culture of Zakopane, among others, the Tatra Museum, the "Sabała" monument, the Zamoyski City Gallery, and the Church of the Holy Cross.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: http://www.szymanowski.zakopane.pl/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=428:28-07-2019-4-08-2019&Itemid=479&lang=pl 

9th International Music Festival Sopot Classic will take place on 28 July – 4 August 2019.

The Sopot Classic International Music Festival, which was initiated by the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Sopot and the City of Sopot, aims to present various repertoire performed by internationally renowned artists as well as talented musicians of the young generation. This year's concerts will take place in the Forest Opera, the concert hall of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Sopot, the Church of St. George, and the Church of the Star of the Sea.

On 31 July, Włodek Pawlik Trio will present their latest project "Pawlik / Moniuszko – Polish jazz", inspired by the most famous arias and songs of Stanisław Moniuszko on his 200th birth anniversary.  A special concert on 2 August will be devoted to Polish music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme will feature Krzysztof Penderecki's Symphony No 6 – Chienese Poems, Paweł Łukaszewski's Adagietto from Symphony No 1 – Symphony of Providence as well as Tech-uniques by Andrzej Ojczenasz – laureate of the 1st prize at the 5th Krzysztof Penderecki Composers' Competition.

Full programme available at: http://sopotclassic.pl/