‘Music on the Heights’ Festivals ends in Zakopane
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
10.09.2016 12:37
The Royal String Quartet, one of Poland’s leading chamber ensembles, performs pieces by Bach, Beethoven and Shostakovich on Saturday in the final concert of the international ‘Music on the Heights’ festival.
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Organised by the Mieczysław Karłowicz Association in Zakopane, the festival has been held every year in that Tatra mountain resort in southern Poland since 2009.
Featured artists this year have included Ukrainian-born Polish soprano Olga Pasichnyk, Israeli clarinetist Shirley Brill and Israeli pianist Jonathan Aner.
The programme of the week-long event comprised workshops for young Polish musicians and meetings with members of the audience in a wooden villa, built in the highland style at the end of the 19th century.
The festival’s name refers both to the Tatra mountains and to the high quality of music performed.
In previous years the event has attracted international stars such as the Kronos Quartet, The King’s Singers, the Musagète Apollon Quartet and Sharon Kam (mk/pk)