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Ladies and Gentlemen,

On behalf of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union, I have the pleasure to invite you to the 37th edition of Warsaw Music Encounters. History will be particularly abundantly represented this year. The festival opens with a performance by the excellent ‘Vasa Consort’, an early music ensemble from Cracow. We will celebrate Adam Mickiewicz’s 225th birth anniversary with songs written to his poems, but also with premieres of four works ‘commenting’ on this event. The presentation of a new website, dedicated to Zygmunt Mycielski – a composer, writer, and journalist who refused to conform – will feature the artist’s previously unknown recordings and statements as well as an opportunity to talk to the website’s authors about their unusual project. Finally, in the context of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we will explore the greatly varied (in this case, Jewish) roots of Polish music.
Naturally, our 37th Festival also features avant-garde art, new projects, first performances, and a concert for children. The latter apparently ask whether all the music composers are already dead, as they only learn at school about such figures. At Warsaw Music Encounters, we hope to provide a satisfying response to this question. Join us at the Festival!

Jarosław Siwiński
Artistic director
37. Warsaw  Music Encounters

Entry to all the Festival events is free of charge

Saturday 13th of May @ 7 p.m.

VASA CONSORT

Music at the Vasa court

Scacchi, Merula, Pacelli, Valentini… let us encounter 17th-century Italian composers who served the Polish kings. We will focus on the Warsaw-born Franciszek Lilius, son of a talented Italian musician.
Though rather few scores of then composed works, and in many cases even very few images of composers, have survived the ravages of our tumultuous Polish history, we are aware of how much the Vasa kings loved Italian (or was it already Polish?) music. Music is the finest of all known time vehicles and never becomes outdated. We will therefore have the good fortune to relish those compositions at our Festival as well.

Sunday 14th of May @ 11 a.m., 1 p.m.

ISLAND OF COLOURS AND MYSTERIES

Participatory concert for children

Can music only be played from a music score? What if we performed it from colours, and invited those who have never played music before to become real musicians, at least for a while? Later trade the harp for a paintbrush, and the stage for some paper? And then…
Kasia Lewandowska – harpist, composer, poet, graphic artist, publisher of unique books and music records – invites children to this one-of-a-kind family concert, bearing the ‘learned’ label of a ‘participatory’ event. Curiosity and courage will be much welcome.

The number of participants is limited. You are therefore requested to register in advance via the online registration form or by e-mail sent to: promocja@wsm.art.pl.

Monday 15th of May @ 7 p.m.

THE ROMANTIC

Eternal Romanticism: here, now and before

Adam Mickiewicz, the epitome of Polish Romanticism, was born 225 years ago. This is not the only reason why we are going to recall the numerous song settings of his poetry. This will also be an opportunity to ask whether Romanticism still has a meaning in today’s Poland, and if it has, then what does ‘Romanticism’ mean nowadays? The first part of this concert may hopefully provide us with an answer.
One might actually think that the correct order is the chronological one: first music from the past, followed by contemporary works. By rejecting historical succession, we propose a different perspective: that of a person who, forever immersed in the present, can only catch glimpses of the past. This is how it works in our lives, there is no other way, so let us take the same approach at our concert.

Tuesday 16th of May @ 6 p.m.

MYCIELSKI ONLINE

Presentation of the website www.mycielski.polmic.pll

PWM Edition, Concert Hall, ul. Fredry 8

Zygmunt Mycielski – a composer, writer, and journalist who refused to conform – has for many years fascinated scholars researching postwar music life. At our festival, we present another new project in a series of websites dedicated to Polish composers, created by excellent musicologists.

Wednesday 17th of May @ 7 p.m.

VIRTUOSI OF IMAGINATION

Strings, electronics, and double concertos

The concert’s title naturally refers to composers’ creativity, but not only. It is also a homage to musicians who, rather than playing the ‘safe classics’ over and over again, undertake to interpret brand new works, frequently – in the presence of their composers. The score of Krzysztof Knittel’s Cimochowizna (which you are invited to access here) is only meant to inspire performers in their creative work. It presents an extreme challenge, but also offers a genuine feast – to the conductor, the musicians, and to our imagination.

Thursday 18th of May @ 7 p.m.

POLISH-JEWISH LANDSCAPES

Polish music at the meeting point of cultures

PROM Kultury Saska Kępa, ul. Brukselska 23

While listening to music we seldom care for its composers’ biographies. In the context of the eighty years that have passed since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, however, it will be worthwhile to remind our audience that works by composers with Jewish roots are inextricable from the history of Polish music. The programme of the closing concert of the 37th Warsaw Music Encounters features both famous names and now nearly forgotten artists, works from the 19th and 20th centuries, classical music and cabaret songs…

Composers 2023

Joseph Achron kw
Józef Achron
Zygmunt Białostocki kw 2
Zygmunt Białostocki
Wojciech Błażejczyk kw
Wojciech Błażejczyk
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Artur Cieślak
Cocciola kw.
Giovanni Battista Cocciola
Witold Friemann kw
Witold Friemann
Michał Janocha kw
Michał Janocha
Zygmunt Karasiński kw
Zygmunt Karasiński
Szymon Kataszek kw
Szymon Kataszek
Krzysztof Knittel kw
Krzysztof Knittel
Rachel Knobler kw
Rachel Knobler
Józef Koffler kw
Józef Koffler
Artur Kroschel kw
Artur Kroschel
Sławomir Kupczak kw 2
Sławomir Kupczak
Szymon Laks kw 2
Szymon Laks
Kasia Lewandowska kw
Kasia Lewandowska
Franciszek Lilius kw
Franciszek Lilius
Karol Lipiński kw
Karol Lipiński
Stanisław Lipski kw
Stanisław Lipski
Paweł Malinowski kw
Paweł Malinowski
Tarquinio Merula kw
Tarquinio Merula
Marcin Mielczewski kw
Marcin Mielczewski
Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie; www.zbiory.mnk.pl ;MNK III-ryc.-62994;;fot. Joanna Paw?owska
Stanisław Moniuszko
Stanislaw Moryto kw
Stanisław Moryto
Zygmunt Mycielski kw
Zygmunt Mycielski
Kazimierz Oberfeld kw
Kazimierz Oberfeld
Henryk Opieński kw
Henryk Opieński
Anibale Orgas kw
Annibale Orgas
Pacelli kw
Asprilio Pacelli
Ignacy Jan Paderewski kw
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Bartłomiej Pękiel (PWM) sepia kw
Bartłomiej Pękiel
Witold Rowicki kw
Witold Rowicki
Marco Scacchi kw
Marco Scacchi
Ryszard Sielicki kw 2
Ryszard Sielicki
Paula Szalit kw
Paula Szalit
Apolinary Szeluto kw
Apolinary Szeluto
Monika Szpyrka kw
Monika Szpyrka
Maria Szymanowska kw
Maria Szymanowska
Mateusz Śmigasiewicz kw
Mateusz Śmigasiewicz
Aleksander Tansman kw
Aleksander Tansman
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Giovanni Valentini
Mieczysław Weinberg kw
Mieczysław Weinberg
Poldowski kw
Irena Regina Wieniawska (Poldowski)
Henryk Wieniawski kw
Henryk Wieniawski
Kazimierz Wilkomirski kw
Kazimierz Wiłkomirski
Juliusz Zarębski kw2
Juliusz Zarębski

Performers 2023

Lala Czaplicka kw
Lala Czaplicka
Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska kw
Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska
Adam Eljasiński kw 2
Adam Eljasiński
Katarzyna Glensk kw
Katarzyna Glensk
Małgorzata Kołcz kw 2
Małgorzata Kołcz
Kasia Lewandowska kw2
Kasia Lewandowska
Ewa Liebchen kw
Ewa Liebchen
Leszek Lorent kw 3
Leszek Lorent
Anna Mikolajczyk-Niewiedział kw
Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział
Maja Miro kw
Maja Miro
Robert Morawski kw
Robert Morawski
Joanna Okoń kw
Joanna Okoń
OPR w W-wie kw
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw
Jarosław Siwiński kw
Jarosław Siwiński
Vasa Consort kw
Vasa Consort
Monika Wolińska kw
Monika Wolińska

Authors of the www.mycielski.polmic.pl website

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Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska
B M-K kw
Barbara Mielcarek-Krzyżanowska
MZ_by_Elzbieta_Lempp kw
Marek Zagańczyk

Organizator:
Związek Kompozytorów Polskich
Rynek Starego Miasta 27
00-272 Warszawa
www.zkp.org.pl

 

Dyrektor Organizacyjny:
Marta Skotnicka-Karska
tel. 22 831 17 41
kom. 883 333 623
e-mail: zkp@zkp.org.pl