We encourage you to take a look at the programme and poster of the 24th International Chamber Music Festival “Silesian String Quartet and Guests” – The Elements

20 November 2016 (Sunday) 6 p.m. Academy of Music

1st concert of the 24th International Chamber Music Festival – “The Elements – Fire”

Turina – La Oratión del Torero for string quartet
Boccherini – Guitar Quintet “Fandango”

Knapik - Partita for violin and piano 
de Falla – El Amor Brujo for piano quintet with double bass

Marianna Kowal - guitar, Jan Kotula – double bass, Paweł Kowalski – piano,
Aleksandra Kuls - violin, Eugeniusz Knapik - piano

23 November 2016 (Wednesday) 7 p.m. Academy of Music

2nd concert of the 24th International Chamber Music Festival – “The Elements – Air”

Mozart – Flute Quartet in D major
Glass – String Quartet No. 4 “Buczak”
Krzanowski - Relief No. 9 “Scottish” for string quartet and tape
Janos Balint - flute, Beata Jankowska-Burzyńska - tape

26 November 2016 (Saturday) 7.30 p.m. NOSPR

3rd concert of the 24th International Chamber Music Festival “The Elements – Earth”

Lasoń – String Quartet No. 5
Robak – Dedication for Professor for his 65th birthday
Milhaud - Le Création du Monde, Op. 81b for piano quintet
Eduardo Hubert - piano

30 November 2016 (Wednesday) 7.30 p.m. NOSPR – Young People’s Wednesday

4th concert of the 24th International Chamber Music Festival “The Elements – Water”

Haydn – String Quartet, Op. 50 No. 6 “The Frog”
Lasoń – String Quartet No. 4 “Tarnogórski”
Schubert – Piano Quintet in A major “Trout”
Łukasz Wilga - piano, Magdalena Maziarz – double bass
Katoquartet String Quartet of the students of the Academy of Music in Katowice: Julia Małek – violin, Szymon Strzelczyk - violin, Monika Fojcik - viola, Daria Kasprzak - cello

3 December 2016 (Saturday) 7 p.m. Bolesław Szabelski Hall of the Academy of Music in Katowice

4nd concert of the 24th International Chamber Music Festival “The Elements – Dance”

Debussy – Danses sacrée et profane for harp and string quintet
Lasoń – Cello Concerto “Pablo Casals in memoriam” 
Cantileno for Cello and Organ, 2nd mvmt.
Schnittke – Piano Quintet
Tactum – a film by Krzysztof Stasiak
Zuzanna Elster - harp, Piotr Janosik - cello, Witold Zaborny – organ, 
Ewa Pobłocka - piano, Barbara Dutkiewicz – choreography

29 June 2013 Silesian Quartet in Szczecin Place Kościół pw Królowej Korony PolskiejHour 19.00ProgrammeF. Mendelssohn - String quartet in a minor op. 13 H.M. Gorecki - I String QuartetK. Penderecki - II String Quartet

The Silesian String Quartet’s most recent album, featuring works by Mieczysław Wajnberg, has been released by CD Accord and will be available for purchase shortly:
String Quartet No. 7
Piano Quintet
Piano: Piotr Sałajczyk

Executive producer: Aleksandra Żemła, Agencja Artystyczna “Appassionato”
Co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

14.05. 2013Concert for Polish Ambassy in Berlin/ Rathaus, Programme: G. Bacewicz , H.M. Górecki , L. van Beethoven