Forum Musicum

An early music festival held in August, presenting period instruments and historical performance practices. The concerts introduce works from the times from the Middle Ages to Romanticism and present early music in a broader context – historical and social. The programme is enriched by dance performances. The Artistic Director of the festival is Tomasz Dobrzański.

The Raven and the Lion

Loud Music

Mini-Concerts in Public Spaces
09.08
Sat.
4:00 PM
Wrocław city space
17th-Century Violin Sonatas
Zbigniew Pilch / Marta Niedźwiecka
09.08
Sat.
8:00 PM
Wrocław, Town Hall, Principal Room
Alta Bellezza “The Phenomenon of Alta Cappella” – a meeting with the audience
Grzegorz Joachimiak
10.08
Sun.
12:00 PM
NFM, Chamber Hall
Concerto Scirocco: Sirens & Soldiers
Songs without Words from the 17th century Instrumental Repertoire
16.08
Sat.
8:00 PM
NFM, Red Hall
Mini-Concerts in Public Spaces
 
17.08
Sun.
4:00 PM
Wrocław city space
Dance party
Kapela Odloty
22.08
Fri.
8:00 PM
Wrocław, Old Refectory at the Dominican Monastery
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The Birth of Sonata

Ars contrapuncti diminuti

Filatura di Musica
23.08
Sat.
8:00 PM
Wrocław, Oratorium Marianum
The Art of Ornamental Counterpoint
Meet Marek Nahajowski and Filatura di Musica
24.08
Sun.
12:00 PM
NFM, Chamber Hall
Olga Humeńczuk
Director

Olga Humeńczuk is a manager with many years of experience in running a cultural institution and producing artistic events, as well as a certified cellist. As a coordinator of works related to the design and construction of the National Forum of Music – on the part of both the investor (City of Wrocław) and the organisation (NFM) – she worked with acoustic designers, architects, engineers and other investment partners. At the same time, she participated in the process of merging the Witold Lutosławski Philharmonic in Wrocław and the International Festival Wratislavia Cantans and creating the organizational structure and internal processes of the newly established institution: the Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music.

Tomasz Dobrzański / fot. Łukasz Rajchert
Tomasz Dobrzański / fot. Łukasz Rajchert
Tomasz Dobrzański
Artistic director of Forum Musicum

He graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the clarinet class of Prof Mieczysław Stachura. He studied recorder with Gabriel Garrido at the Early Music Centre at the Conservatoire Populaire in Geneva and with Michel Piguet in the Basel Schola Cantorum, where he also studied historical clarinet under the direction of Pierre-Andre Taillard. Tomasz Dobrzański is a multi-instrumentalist - he also plays medieval plucked instruments, as well as shawms, bagpipes and onehand flutes. In addition, he reconstructs old musical instruments himself and makes copies of them.Since 2000, he has been in charge of the Wrocław ensemble Ars Cantus, which has recorded numerous recordings of unknown music from Wrocław and Silesia. At the same time, he is involved in teaching and championing of early music. At the Wrocław Academy of Music and the Second Degree State Music School, he runs the recorder class.

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