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Event date: 2024-05-10

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers' Union invites you to the 38^th Warsaw Music Meetings on May 10-19, 2024. We will hear old and new music. Famous musicians will perform, and other composers, including those from the 17th century, will make their debut at the festival. Admission to all festival events is free!

As Jarosław Siwiński, the artistic director of the Meetings, emphasizes, "We will recall the best and worst times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, academics from Lviv will bring us beautiful - despite the bad times - music, after years of break we will welcome the full symphony orchestra, and we will end the festival in the amazing space of the post-modern church in Ursynów. This time there will be fairy tales at the family concert. The fairy tales will only be audio, electronic and imaginary, and an excellent guide will guide us through them. It won't help us judge which fairy tales are for children and which are for their parents. Well, it's getting more and more difficult to differentiate".

Festival website: https://www.facebook.com/warspotmuz 

https://wsm.art.pl/ 

Event date: 2024-05-10

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Two-stage auditions of the 12^th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition reactivated after the pandemic break, will end with the finals on the 10^th and the 11^th of May at the Warsaw Philharmonic at 7 p.m. The awards gala will also take place at the Warsaw Philharmonic on the 12^th of May at 6 p.m. Admission to the finalists' and winners' concerts is ticketed.

The Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition is considered one of the most prestigious competitions for young cellists up to 30 years of age. They are assessed by an international jury composed of: Roman Jabłoński, chairman of the jury (Poland, Spain), Mindaugas Bačkus (Lithuania), Andrzej Bauer, Magdalena Bojanowicz, Tomasz Strahl, Marcin Zdunik (Poland), Henri Demarquette (France), Roel Dieltiens (Belgium), Anssi Karttunen (Finland), Yuri Laniuk (Ukraine), Jens Peter Maintz (Germany).

Tickets are available on the website and at the box office of the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Competition website: https://www.lutoslawski-cello.art.pl/ 

Event date: 2024-05-10

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 17^th Gdańsk Music Festival will take place between the 10^th and 18^th of May, 2024 in Gdańsk and the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area. The formula of the project is open, but the programme of each subsequent edition of the Festival is given an individual character by the accompanying message. May 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the premiere of one of the most important works in the history of music – Ludvig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor.

This work will be performed on the 11^th of May 11 at the St. John Center conducted by the recognized conductor Eugen Tzigane. We will also hear Beethoven's masterpieces interpreted by the winner of the 5^th International Baltic Piano Competition, Borun Li, on the 13^th of May  and by the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marek Pijarowski during the final concert.

World-renowned artists and leading Polish symphony orchestras were invited to participate in this year's edition of the Festival, including: Anastasia Kobekina, Daniel Ciobanu, Alexandre Tharaud, Georgijs Osokins, the Pomeranian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra "Amadeus" and, as always, the Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic.

Festival website: https://www.gdanskifestiwal.pl/pl/ 

Event date: 2024-05-10

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 15^th anniversary Leo Festival will be held at the National Forum of Music on May 10-19, 2024. Christian Danowicz, artistic director of the Festival, invites you to this event.

“Inspired by the book Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, which deals with the issues of movement and time, I would like to encourage joint reflection on these universal issues during this year's Leo Festival and look at them through the prism of music and dance.”

Detailed programme - on the website: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/festiwale/leo-festiwal 

Event date: 2024-05-10

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The motto of the 9^th edition of the Katowice Culture Nature Festival, which will take place from 10-16 May 2024 at NOSPR, is 'Music of the Spheres': together with the artists, we will explore how the universe and music resonate with harmony and mathematical order.

We will hear, among others, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's Symphony No. 2 'Copernicus' or Gustav Holst's symphonic poem Planets, and the brightest point in the festival sky will be a musical encounter with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by the rising star of world conducting Klaus Mäkelä; on the programme - Anton Bruckner's monumental Symphony No. 5 in B flat major.

In addition to concerts of classical music, there will also be an event with music in a slightly lighter, jazz version - a concert featuring the Joey Alexander Trio (for the first time in Katowice).

Programme of the Festival: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/program/festiwal-katowice-kultura-natura