Evenings with the music of Karol Szymanowski and Bohuslav Martinů in Katowice

Festival „Evenings with the music of Karol Szymanowski and Bohuslav Martinů“ begins on March 14 in Katowice. During three days of the festival, audience will have an opportunity to hear Szymanowski´s and Martinů´s music performed by Czech and Polish musicians including the pianist Ivo Kahánek or The Sedlacek Quartet, winner of Karol Szymanowski International String Quartet Competition Katowice 2014 and The Bohuslav Martinu Foundation Competition 2014.

Evenings with the music of Karol Szymanowski and… - Festival whose guiding principle is to juxtapose works of Szymanowski with those of other prominent composers of the 20th century, and to reveal in the process the broad spectrum of trends and mutual inspirations at work during the 20th century. This format of programming creates the opportunity for comparing compositional techniques in the treatment of similar genres as well as to familiarize the audiences with works rarely performed in public.

Bohuslav Martinů is only the second Czech composer introduced at the Evenings with the music of Karol Szymanowski, perhaps thanks to his recent 125th birth anniversary. The first one was Leoš Janášek in the very first year of the festival´s existence in 1998.

The festival offers following concerts with Bohuslav Martinů´s music:

14 March 2016, 7.00pm 
Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland
Sonata for Flute and Piano, H 306
Nonet No. 2 for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass, H 374
Łukasz Długosz (flute), Andrzej Jungiewicz (piano), Tomasz Kamieniak (piano), The Lason Ensemble, Jan Kotula, Maria Grochowska, Piotr Pyc, Marek Barański, Roman Widaszek, Tadeusz Tomaszewski

15 March 2016, 7.00pm 
Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland
String Quartet No. 6, H 312
Piano Quintet No. 2, H 298
The Sedlacek Quartet (Michal Sedláček - violin, Jan Maceček - violin, Vít Kubík - viola, Karel Chudý - violoncello), Ivo Kahánek (piano)

16 March 2016, 7.00pm 
Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H 356
Sonata for Piano, H 350
Three Czech Dances, H 154
Małgorzata Wasiucionek (violin), Sylwia Michalik (piano), Katarzyna Pala (clarinet), Ivo Kahánek (piano)

More info and tickets HERE.