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Patronat medialny nad Festiwalem objęło Polskie centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

During the 46^th Karol Szymanowski Music Festival in Zakopane on July 21-30, 2023, the theme of musical events will be a current and burning topic - emigration, the past and the present one. During the inaugural concert, the New Music Orchestra, conducted by Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, will premiere Kolomyjki by the Ukrainian composer Bogdan Krywopust.

The programme includes works by Polish artists of the 20^th century who saved their lives thanks to emigration (Aleksandr Tansman, Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, Roman Palester, Mieczysław Wajnberg, Karol Rathaus); those composers who, while operating for the greater part of their lives abroad, retained their national identity (Henryk Wieniawski, Juliusz Zarębski, Antoni Szałowski, Andrzej Panufnik, Andrzej Nikodemowicz).

On the 28^th of July, we will hear for the first time Bartosz Witkowski's Piano Quintet ‘Landscape from Harenda’: a work created as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance, premiered by Tymoteusz Bies and the Silesian Quartet.

Detailed programme on the website: http://www.szymanowski.zakopane.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

For the thirteenth time, in the unique entourage of beautiful Pieniny mountains complemented by the summer sun, organ and chamber music will resound.

Next edition of the Pieniny-Culture-Sacrum Summer Festival will take place within the walls of two churches in the picturesque Krościenko at Dunajec river. The programme of this year's festival includes five Saturday concerts from the 22^nd of July to the 12^th of August, 2023. Admission to all concerts is free.

Programme: http://arsproarte.pl/#/kroscienko-nad-dunajcem/13-letni-festiwal-pieniny-kultura-sacrum 

Young Arts Festival is a crossover that combines musical styles, rediscovers classical and jazz sounds. During this year's edition in Krosno, on July 21-23, 2023, classical music in a modern approach and works by Polish artists of the 21^st century will be presented. World premiere of Andrzej Karałów's newest composition will take place.

Ralph Kaminski will perform at the opening of the festival. On the second day of the festival, July 22, lovers of jazz and instrumental sounds will have the opportunity to meet the Grammy Award winner, The Yellowjackets.

In the final concert the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by José Maria Florência, will perform Adam Wesołowski's Dance of the Heavenly Spheres, which was written on the occasion of the 550^th birthday anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus, and will premiere Denudation - a concerto for piano and orchestra by Andrzej Karałów. The soloist will be Piotr Sałajczyk. The concert was created as part of the ‘Composers’ Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Festival website: https://youngarts.pl/ 

For the first time, 30 Warsaw institutions joined forces to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the reconstruction of the Old Town Square. On July 21-23, 2023, 70 events will take place in the Old Town and its vicinity, including concerts, walks, tours of historic tenement houses, art workshops, city games, exhibitions, dance parties and film screenings.

Admission to almost all events is free. Registration is required for some of them.

Details available on the event website: https://urodzinystarowki.pl/ 

On the 1^st of August, 2023 at 17.00, at the ‘W’ hour, alarm sirens will howl in the capital - the inhabitants of Warsaw as every year will pay tribute to the participants of the Warsaw Uprising. At 20.30 at Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square, together with the orchestra and choir under the direction of Jan Stokłosa, we will perform insurgent songs in his new arrangements.

The concert will be conducted by Tomasz Wolny.

Free admission. Gates open at 19.00.

Songbooks to be downloaded at https://www.1944.pl/