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WINNER OF THE 18th CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION IN THE POZNAN PHILHARMONIC

We are delighted that the winner of the 18th Chopin Piano Competition, a brilliant Canadian pianist Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, will perform in the Poznan Philharmonic on the 30th of October 2021!

The Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, who will accompany him in the Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11 by Frédéric Chopin, will be led by Maestro Łukasz Borowicz.

We are looking forward to this unusual event.

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We are happy and proud to present you a new album of the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, which is also the ensembles’ world phonographic premiere. The CD includes rediscovered, ge-nuine but little known works of Stefan Bolesław Poradowski – a prominent composer, educator and organizer of cultural life, whose contribution for the Wielkopolska region can hardly be over-stated: Violin Concerto Op. 70, Double Bass Concerto Op. 26 and Symphony No. 3, Op. 29. The Orchestra, led by Łukasz Borowicz, is accompanied by superb soloists – Marcin Suszycki and Piotr Czerwiński. The album can be purchased in good music stores and during the concerts of the Po-znan Philharmonic.

Co-financed with resources from the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport coming from the Culture Promotion Fund in the framework of the ”Musical Trace” program carried out by the National Music and Dance Institute.

We would like to remind all participants of the concert organized by Poznan Philharmonic that “Rules for Audience Organization in the AMU Concert Hall – the auditorium of the Poznan Philharmonic”, developed for the duration of the pandemic, still apply. The rules are available on the website under the heading: tickets and season tickets/ downloadable documents.

While entering the AMU Concert Hall the unvaccinated are obliged to fill in the “Statement of the participant of concerts organized by Poznan Philharmonic” available on the website (under the heading: tickets and season tickets/ downloadable documents) or at the entrance of the Concert Hall.

We also remind that during the stay in the AMU Concert Hall covering your mouth and nose is mandatory.

We joyously inform that on the 28th of September 2021 the collage senate of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wroclaw has awarded the long-standing Chief Conductor of the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Professor Marek Pijarowski with doctor honoris causa title.

Dear Maestro, we are happy for you and send heartfelt congratulations!

The promotion act will take place during the official Inauguration of the Academic Year held on the 11th of October at 11 am at the Oratorium Marianum of the Wroclaw University. We invite you to watch the broadcast of the ceremony available on the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music YouTube channel.

Tomorrow! On the 28th of September at 1 pm we start the ticket sale for the concerts of the 75th artistic season of the Poznan Philharmonic. We invite you to the ticket office at the AMU Concert Hall foyer, Cultural Information Center located at Ratajczaka street and naturally online on www.filharmoniapoznanska.pl

We invite you to watch a short footage from the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra’s trip to Świdnica. On the 11th of September in the Church of Peace, on the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, the musicians led by Łukasz Borowicz performed the works by Mozart as well as a composition ordered for that occasion from Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska. Rafał Blechacz was the soloist of the evening.

A composer, pianist, musicologist and music activist. It was him that Stanisław Wisłocki, who in 1947 created a symphonic orchestra in Poznan, proposed as the director of the emerging philharmonic. Tadeusz Szeligowski, the first director of the Poznan Philharmonic (1947-1949), has become its patron.

Born in Lviv, he completed law studies at the Jagiellonian University. It was music, however, that has become the most important in his life. He took up musicologist studies, and when in 1929 he went to Paris for his composing scholarship, he decisively resigned from the legal profession. Two years later he started his work at the Poznan Conservatory.

Today, on the 13th of September 2021, falls the 125th birthday anniversary of Tadeusz Szeligowski. On behalf of the artists and employees of the Poznan Philharmonic Wojciech Nentwig – the Managing Director of the Philharmonic, Łukasz Borowicz – the Music Director of the Philharmonic and Chief Conductor of the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra and Elżbieta Kralkowska-Mielcarek – Deputy Director of the Philharmonic, laid a bunch of flowers in the Crypt of Distinguished Wielkopolska Citizens on the St Wojciech Hill.

We would like to inform you that after the summer break the ticket office of the Poznan Philharmonic (situated in the lobby of AMU Concert Hall, Wieniawskiego Street 1) will reopen from the 6th of September 2021. In the 2021/2022 artistic season it will stand open from Monday to Friday between 1 pm and 5 pm, and on the days of concerts organized by the Poznan Philharmonic – from 1 pm till the beginning of the concert.

The booked DL and SG season tickets can be purchased between the 6th and the 30th of September.

The booked KP season tickets can be purchased between the 20th and the 30th of September.

The booked MW season tickets can be purchased after the sale of the DL, SG and KP season tickets is completed, that is past the 30th of September. The number of MW season tickets is limited and the sale will be conditioned by the government’s epidemic guidelines regarding the maximum admissible number of people in the concert halls.

We would like to inform our faithful auditors that during the purchase of the new season tickets, the electronic season tickets from the previous season are necessary.

The reservations for the individual tickets are taken from the 6th of September either by e-mail: rezerwacje@filharmoniapoznanska.pl or by phone: 618-536-935 or 618-522-266. We are also at your disposal in the ticket office, though as to reservations and additional questions we recommend remote contact.

The sales of individual tickets and the on-line sales begins on the 28th of September.

Due to the state of the epidemic and the government’s guidelines related to it we reserve the right to modify the timetable of the sales of season tickets and individual tickets presented above.

The booked DL and SG season tickets can be purchased between the 6th and the 30th of September.

The booked KP season tickets can be purchased between the 20th and the 30th of September.

We would like to inform our faithful auditors that during the purchase of the new season tickets, the electronic season tickets from the previous season are necessary.

The sales of individual tickets and the on-line sales begins on the 28th of September.

He was born a hundred years ago – on the 7th of July 1921 in Rzeszów. A magnificent conductor, composer, pianist and pedagogue. He went down in the history of Poznan in a special way when in 1947 he formed Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra and held the position of its first conductor and artistic director of the Philharmonic until 1958.

That’s what he wrote about his work in Poznan in the book “Life of one musician”:

“In the first work period with the orchestra I placed the greatest emphasis on the classical repertoire, as it’s the best one to even out the sound. (…) Then we worked on the music of romanticism, neo-romanticism and the 20th century, including Polish contemporary music. After the orchestra have reached a significant level of technical advancement, we increased the number of Polish premieres. The Polish Composers’ Union often trusted us with organizing the auditions of new works. Thus close to the Philharmonic’s fifth anniversary we could talk about achievements on a national scale.”

Wisłocki was memorialized in Poznan, along with his wife Izabella, on of the tenement houses of the North frontage of the Old Market Square. On the frieze under the second floor’s windows of number 88 Julian Boss-Gosławski placed the images of the architect Izabella Wisłocka, who designed the reconstruction of the majority of tenements at this part of the Square, and her husband Stanisław Wisłocki, who back then was the artistic director of Poznan Philharmonic.

Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra will play the concert dedicated to the memory of Stanisław Wisłocki under the baton of Antoni Wit on the 13th of November this year. The program includes Piano Concerto by Stanisław Wisłocki in the interpretation of Krzysztof Książek.