Chopin and His Europe - NOSPR

The 22nd International “Chopin and His Europe” Festival will feature fewer concerts than in previous years, but will welcome magnificent major symphony orchestras from Canada, the United States and Europe. Each evening will be an artistic event in its own right, and together the programmes will form an attractive offering for every music lover – a hallmark of our musical celebration for nearly a quarter of a century. In brief:

Polish music will, of course, remain at the heart of the Festival, as it has since its very first editions. Alongside Chopin, audiences will hear works by Feliks Janiewicz, Karol Mikuli, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski, Grażyna Bacewicz and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Giants of the international stage – the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal – will perform Polish music with prize-winners of the Chopin Competition.• Great pianism: among others, we will hear the most recent Chopin Competition winner, Eric Lu; the previous winner, Bruce Liu; and the winner of the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, Tomasz Ritter. The masters Mikhail Pletnev and Sir András Schiff will also appear.

We will also hear Bomsori on the violin, and on period instruments: Tomasz Ritter and Xavier de Maistre with {oh!} Orkiestra under Martyna Pastuszka, Chouchane Siranossian with Martin García García, and Roel Dieltiens with Frank Braley.

A festival of perfect sound and distinguished interpretations awaits us.

More information about the festival.