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Wojciech Kilar's Music at the Jubilee of the Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Sopot
2012-06-12
This year, the Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Sopot celebrates its 30th anniversary of artistic activity. The orchestra was founded in 1982 by Wojciech Rajski and its core consists of 19 artist-musicians. However, it also performs a symphonic repertoire with extended forces. The Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Sopot has performed with the most distinguished world-renowned soloists, including amongst others: Mstislav Rostropovitch, Misha Maisky, and Ivo Pogorelich. The ensemble is regularly invited to prestigious European festivals, such as Mecklenburg - Vorpommern Musikfestival, Rheingau Festival, Prague Spring, Weilburger Schlosskonzerte, Festival van Vlaanderen, La Chaise - Dieu and others.The orchestra’s achievments include forty discs published by companies including EMI, DUX, Midas, Thorofon, Claves, Sonomaster, Opus, Mediaphon, Wizon. In 1997, thanks to the efforts of the authorities of Sopot and the Baltic Artistic Agency BART, the Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra received its own headquarters, located in the grounds of the Forest Opera in Sopot.
The Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra concert will celebrate its Jubilee with a concert of "Music by Wojciech Kilar on the 80th anniversary of the composer's birth." Under the direction of Wojciech Rajski, the musicians will perform "Krzesane", "Orawa", a suite of music from Andrzej Wajda's film, "Pan Tadeusz", and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Another undoubted attraction will be the performance by pianist Peter Jablonski, to whom the work is dedicated.
The concert will launch the second edition of the Sopot Classic festival. During the festival we can also hear:
3 August (Friday), time: 19.30, St George’s Church, ul. Kościuszki 1, Sopot
E. Séjourné – Marimba Concerto
A. Ignatowicz-Glińska - Concerto for Marimba and Trumpet
R. Shchedrin – Suite from George Bizet’s opera, Carmen, for string orchestra and percussion
Perf. Katarzyna Myćka – marimba, Igor Cecocho – trumpet, Wojciech Rajski (cond.)
5 August (Sunday), time: 19.00, Sopot Marina
Georg Friedrich Händel- „Water Music” and „Fireworks Music”
Information about the concert on the site: http://www.pfksopot.pl/aktualnosci/jubileusz-30-lecia-polskiej-filharmonii-kameralnej-sopot/
The main sponsor of the Jubilee celebrations is the firm Energa.
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