The 10th edition of the Festival of Polish Music will be held from July 4-20, 2014, in Kraków. The essence of the festival is not only to present valuable works by Polish composers, written from the Middle Ages to the present day, but also to contrast them with the world’s music and display them in various contexts.
Recognizing the centenary of this great modern composer, works by Sir Andrzej Panufnik will be featured on the first three programs of the Festival, which will be inaugurated on July 4 by NOSPR and flautist Łukasz Długosz with conductor Alexander Liebreich in the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Hall. Other Polish composers who will be performed at the Festival include: Paweł Mykietyn, Krzysztof Penderecki, Karol Szymanowski, Alexander Tansman, Józef Michał Ksawery Poniatowski, and many more.
The Festival has been organized since 2005 by the Polish Music Association, founded by a group of musicologists, culture managers and music lovers. The organizers aim to mobilize the creation of compositional art by commissioning and premièring works of contemporary music. To date, the festival’s stars have included pianists Ivo Pogorelich and Nicolai Khozyainov, world-famous violinist Nigel Kennedy, as well as the Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Sinfonietta, Elżbieta Chojnacka, Akiko Suwanai, Piers Lane, Peter Jablonski, Jonathan Plowright, Grigori Zhyslin and many others. Such distinguished personalities on the Polish music scene as Krzysztof Penderecki, Agnieszka Duczmal and Jerzy Maksymiuk have also appeared, and the Festival has hosted such distinguished composers as Wojciech Kilar, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Paweł Mykietyn.
[Source: fmp.org.pl]