The Organ and Chamber Music Festival will be held on 16-18 October 2020 as part of the 1st Organ Music Days in Sanok, initiated by Łukasz Kot – chairman of the Pro Artis Association based in Sanok. The aim of the festival is to popularize organ and chamber music in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship and to present works of early and contemporary composers.
The event will feature famous artists from different parts of Poland: organists Piotr Rojek, artistic director of the Festival (Wrocław), Roman Perucki (Gdańsk), Henryk Jan Botor (Tychy – Kraków), flautists Łukasz Długosz and Agata Kielar-Długosz (Gdańsk). The programme will include works by Jakub Sowa, Feliks Nowowiejski, Henryk Jan Botor, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Handel, Henri Mull, Felix Mendelssohn, Gabriel Fauré, Louis Vierny. We will also hear organ improvisations on themes suggested by the audience.
Free concerts will take place in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Sanok. In addition, Improvisation Master Course for students of secondary music schools will be held at the Wanda Kossakowa Primary and Secondary State Music School in Sanok.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.