SPECIAL BIRTHDAY CONCERTS
Special Birthday Concerts are going to be the first of the three dominating events of the Chopin Year. Organised by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, it is going to feature a series of concerts held between 22 February and 1 March 2010, i.e. it will encompass the two hypothetical dates of the composer’s birth.
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the genius composer’s birth, Warsaw will be hosting a splendid array of the world’s pianism, with performances by Daniel Barenboim, Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Rafał Blechacz, who will open the celebrations, Dang Thai Son, Evgeny Kissin, Garrick Ohlsson, Janusz Olejniczak, Murray Perahia, Ivo Pogorelich and Yundi Li. The artists will be accompanied by Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit.
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CALENDAR
20.01.2010
