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21st Days of Cracow Composers' Music
2009-05-29
Krakow, 30 May - 8 June 2009This year’s 21st International Festival of Contemporary Music – Days of Cracow Composers’ Music is devoted to the memory of Krystyna Moszumańskiej- Nazar, who passed away in September last year. Cracow musicians and artists from Belarus and Ukraine will present over 60 works, including numerous premieres. For the inuagural concert of the festival a presentation of chamber works by Krystyna Moszumańskiej-Nazar has been prepared – dating from the end of the 50s all the way to ‘Configurations’ for cello and piano from 2005. More pieces by the composer will also appear at other concerts during the festival – ‘Sinfonietta’ for string orchestra will be heard on Sunday, June 7, during a special concert, performed by the Academic Chamber Orchestra "virtuosos of Lviv."
The festival includes among others works by Juliusz Łuciuk, Zbigniew Bujarski, Adam Walaciński, Konstanty Regamey, Krzysztof Penderecki, H.M. Górecki and Wojciech Widłak and the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the Academy of Music in Krakow has prepared a special concert on the 80-anniversary of the birth of Bogusław Schaeffer.
On Monday, 1 June, during a concert entitled "Discoveries and Returns" works of forgotten composers from the beginning of the last century will be presented - Jadwiga Sarnecka and Jerzy Gablenz. Their fascinating music can be a real discovery for the audience.
As every year the festival will be preceded by the Forum of Young Composers, in which young artists’ compositions will be performed by students.
The festival will show the creative relationship with the East – on account of Krystyna Nazar-Moszumańska’s origins in Lviv this year will be the music of composers from the Ukraine, such as Mikoła Kołesa who died six years ago, or Stanislaw Ludkiewicz. During the concert on June 5th the Minsk Academy of Music Dulcimer Trio will remind us of the sound of this under-appreciated instrument.
On Saturday, 6. June in Jurgów there will be a picnic and concert to celebrate the 80th birthday of Doctor Elżbieta Dziębowska, editor of PWM’s monumental Encyclopaedia of Music, honorary member of the Polish Composers’ Union and an educator of a whole generation of Polish musicologists.
Festival Program: www.zkp.krakow.pl
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