A festival of harpsichords, violas, lutes, Baroque violins and oboes – all playing the scores by Johann Sebastian Bach during concerts by professors and students of the Kraków Academy of Music. The highlight of the opening will be the Tönet, ihr Pauken cantata, and the following days will be filled with Bach’s sonatas and violin concertos. Ensembles characteristic of the Baroque period made up of instruments from a single family will be represented by Kraków Viol Consort and Kraków Recorder Consort – the latter ensemble will showcase pieces by John Dowland on the 400th birthday of the English late Renaissance composer. During the finale, coinciding exactly with the 341st birthday of the festival’s patron, we will listen to the performance by the founder of Bach Days, the eminent Polish harpsichordist Prof. Elżbieta Stefańska.
Sunday 15.03.2026
Florianka Recital Hall
6pm Inauguration Concert
Tickets: PLN 40/20; available at the venue an hour before the concert
Monday 16.03.2026
Florianka Recital Hall
11am Diploma concert: Alicja Żądło – lute
5pm Student concert
7:30pm Consort songs
Tuesday 17.03.2026
Florianka Recital Hall
5pm Clavichord concert: Maria Erdman and students
7:30pm Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonatas
Wednesday 18.03.2026
Florianka Recital Hall
10:30am Diploma concert: Paulina Zięba – harspsichord
5pm Student concert
7:30pm John Dowland on the 400th Anniversary of Birth and the Renaissance Polyphony
Thursday 19.03.2026
Florianka Recital Hall
5pm Student concert
7:30pm Concerts by Bach and Vivaldi – Not Only for Music Schools
Saturday 21.03.2026
Academy of Music in Kraków
noon Damensonaten
Florianka Recital Hall
6pm Elżbieta Stefańska – harpsichord
