SILENCE Music Festival

“Only a musician is able to stop time with a sound, but only a brilliant musician is able to stop time with the absence of sound – with silence. One of the Evangelists says: ‘In the beginning was the word.’ Oh no! In the beginning, there was silence,” declares Mateusz Zubik, the artistic director of the SILENCE Music Festival, announcing star recitals by pianoforte player Tobias Koch and violinist Jorge Jiménez, the world premiere of Piotr Peszat’s piece for pharmaceutical utensils or a jazz encounter with Margaux und die BANDiten. And the clou of the programme: a performance of (A)INSOMNIA for sleep, pink meringues, artificial intelligence, Goldberg Variations and two pianos, although only one instrument (the one in Kraków's Kijów Cinema) will be played by musicians – including Marek Szlezer, Nina Gurol, Guillermo Rodriguez, Eligiusz Skoczylas and Radosław Goździkowski – and the other (the one at Bach’s tomb in the St Thomas’ Church in Leipzig) will perform the same music as the first one without a pianist in real time thanks to modern technology. All of this makes up one of the most original Polish classical music festivals, which combines non-standard artistic activities with the unpretentious and authentic state of being together in listening to music.

30, 31 August 2024, 8pm–1am
Kijów Cinema / St Thomas’ Church in Leipzig
(A)INSOMNIA
Artists: Mateusz Zubik | Marek Szlezer | Nina Gurol | Guillermo Rodriguez | Piotr Kowal | Eligiusz Skoczylas | Dominika Peszko | Radosław Goździkowski – piano
Concept: Mateusz Zubik
Musical arrangement: Marek Chołoniewski
Set and lighting: Alicja i Grzegorz Bilińscy
Stream-art: Rom Dziadkiewicz, UKRAiNATV
Co-operation: Mariusz Czarnecki, Jakub Wójcik, Katarzyna Czajkowska

1 September 2024, 6pm
Radziwiłł Palace in Balice
WATCH MY VERSES FLY AWAY
Artists: Szymon Chojnacki – bass/baritone | Lisa Wellisch – piano
In programme: F. Chopin, M. Karłowicz, F. Schubert, I. Friedman, H. Czyż

8 September 2024, 6pm
Radziwiłł Palace in Balice
SUMMER 1864
Artists: Marian Sobula – piano | Maciej Lulek – I violin | Max Frach – II violin | Anna Gęgotek-Łojek – viola | Bartosz Koziak – cello
J. Brahms Piano Quintet, Op. 34

12 September 2024, 8pm
Alchemia
EUFORIA
Artists: Margaux und die BANDiten: Margaux Kier – vocal | Henning Brand – percussion instruments | Jura Wajda – piano and cimbalom | Stefan Rey – bass

15 September 2024, 6pm
Radziwiłł Palace in Balice
M OR P?
Artists: Malawski Trio: Maciej Lulek – violin | Barbara Łypik-Sobaniec – cello | Sławomir Cierpik – piano
W programie: works by the composers with the surname starting with M and P

20 September 2024, 8pm
Kaffe Bageri
SILENCE, WINE AND PIANO
Guest night with live music and wine

22 September 2024, 6pm
Radziwiłł Palace in Balice
RETHINKING BACH
Artist: Jorge Jiménez – violin
J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations for violin solo

29 September 2024, 6pm
Radziwiłł Palace in Balice
PRESCRIPTION MUSIC
Artists: Peszat / others
World premiere of the work by Piotr Peszat composed for Fagron pharmaceutical utensils and other curiosities

6 October 2024, 6pm
Radziwiłł Palace in Balice
OCH! TOBIAS KOCH!
Artist: Tobias Koch – pianoforte
F. Schubert