On Poland's Independence Day, the 11th of November, the I,CULTURE Orchestra, one of the most important projects of the Polish Presidency Cultural Programme, gives the final concert of its European tour at the National Philharmonic under the baton of conductor Paweł Kotla
The European tour of the Orchestra is under the honourary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, who will be present at the concert. The concert features the youngest laureate of the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, Russia's Alena Baeva. Baeva is one of the youngest winners of the International Violin Competition.
The evening's programme is as follows:
Prokofiev - Scythian Suite, Op.20
Szymanowski - Symphony no. 4 (Symphonie concertante), Op. 60
Shostakovich - Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
I, Culture Orchestra represents the official orchestra of the 2011 Polish EU Presidency. The endeavor was launched by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and aims to follow the example of such renowned ensembles as the European Union Youth Orchestra and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. It provides musical opportunity to young musicians in the Eastern European nations of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia and the Ukraine.
ICO has already toured through Gdansk, Brussels, Stockholm, Kraków, Berlin and Madrid. The 11th of November concert in Warsaw is the final stop for the youth orchestra.
On it's European Tour, the last stop before Warsaw was Teatro Real in Madrid, the ICO met with extraordinary praise - audiences littered with public figures and luminaries sought encores from the young musicians after each concert.
The I,CULTURE Orchestra concert takes place on the 11th of November 2011 at 19:00 in the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.
For more information on the concert and I,CULTURE Orchestra, see: orchestra.iam.pl.