I, Culture Orchestra triumphant in Edinburgh

I, Culture Orchestra: photo - orchestra.iam.pl

The orchestra, founded in 2011 by the Warsaw-based Adam Mickiewicz Institute, was conducted by Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits, with artsdesk.com describing the performance of Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony and the lyrical ‘Sinfonia elegiaca’ by Polish-born composer Andrzej Panufnik, as “remarkable”.

“This was an interpretation in which the music, first and last, spoke for itself, quietly, beautifully and triumphantly,” writes the web site

I, Culture Orchestra brings together musicians from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Armenia.

Before Edinburgh, the orchestra played in Gdansk, Kassel in Germany and La Roque d’Antheron in France as part of its current tour.

The tour ends with a concert at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm on Saturady, 23 August. (mk/pg)