Krakow
Events in March.
/Further
below please find Krakow's selected events in April
and beyond/
This
month's concerts of music, festivals, opera, ballet,
spectacles, shows, and other events in Krakow.
Concerts
of classical music for tourists take place every day
in Kosciol Sw. Wojciecha church on the Rynek Glowny
central square and Kosciol Sw. Sw. Piotra i Pawla
church, 52 Grodzka street, at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
respectively.
March 6, Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic
orchestra and violinist Piotr Plawner perform Sofia
Gubaidulina’s Offertorium violin concerto and
Beethoven’s symphony no. 7 in A major in Filharmonia
concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Poland’s jazz quintet, Kattorna, plays in Harris
Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9
p.m.
Poland's Szymon Mika Trio plays jazz in Cieplarnia
club, 15 Bracka street, at 8 p.m. (free
admission).
Krakow's blues band, KGB, performs in Mile Stone club
(Hotel Qubus), 5 Nadwislanska street, at 8:30 p.m. (free admission).
Rock concert features Titus Tommy Gunn plus Witchking
as support in Loch Ness club, 15 Warszawska street, at
7 p.m.
Poland’s top hiphop brothers duo, Fisz and Emade,
perform in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Poland's two pop bands, Kawalek Kulki and Maki i
Chlopaki, perform in Forty Kleparz club, 2 Kamienna
street, at 7 p.m.
Two rock bands, Czech Republic's Pipe And Pints and Poland's
The Coiots perform in Face2Face club, 28 Paulinska street,
at 8 p.m.
Krakow's band, Simeon Lenoir & World Trans System,
performs world music in Stary Port
club, 27 Straszewskiego street and Jablonowskich
street, at 7:30 p.m. (free admission).
Poland's pop band, Letko, performs triphop in Miejsce
club, 1 Wegierska street, at 8 p.m. (free admission).
Poland's indie folk duo, Paula & Karol, perform
unplugged in Lokator club, 27 Krakowska street, at 9
p.m.
Poland's rock band, Latajace Talerze, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Russia’s band, Nayekovitchi, performs klezmer music
in Cheder Cafe, 36 Jozefa street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow's trio, Nazzar, performs music inspired by
traditional Jewish tunes in Galicia Museum, 18 Dajwor
street, at 7 p.m.
March 7, Sunday: Krakow’s Cistercian Basilica
Choir performs music by Lotti, Franck, Saint-Saens,
and Kodaly in Mogila Cistercian Basilica at 7 p.m. (free
admission).
Krakow Opera Company
produces Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Poland’s ensembles, Bornus Consort and Camerata
Vistula, plus soloist singers perform Stanislaw
Szczycinski’s St. John’s Passion in Tyniec Abbey,
37 Benedyktynska street, at 4:15 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Pawel Kubica plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Hotel Grand, 5 Slawkowska street and sw.
Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
USA's band, Hey! Tonal, performs jazzy post-rock music
in RE club, 4 Sw. Krzyza street, at 8
p.m.
Poland’s noted rock bands, Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa
and Hambawenah,
perform in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Poland’s bands Horrorscope, Collider, Saratum,
Dormant Ordeal, and Defus perform metal rock music in
Zascianek club, 4 Rostafinskiego street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow's Robert Kasprzycki Band performs pop rock in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Krakow's band, Simeon Lenoir & World Trans System,
performs world music in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28
Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Poland's rock band, BiFF, performs in Zaczek club, 3 Maja street, at 8
p.m.
Krakow’s pop singer Agnieszka Rosner-Zawilinska
gives recital in Dwor Czeczow culture center, 36 ks.
Popieluszki street, at 7 p.m.
March 8, Monday: Krakow’s soprano Izabela
Matula, pianists Pawel Motyczynski, Marcin Koziak, and
Piotr Kosinski, violinist Maria Slawek, cellist
Krzysztof Sadlowski, and Academy of Music Symphonic
Orchestra perform Chopin’s piano trio in g minor,
piano concerto no. 1 in e minor op. 11, and Rondo a la
Krakowiak in Krakow Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
7 p.m.
Krakow’s organist Andrzej Bialko plays Marcel
Dupre’s Le Chemin de la Croix op. 29 in Akademia
Muzyczna conservatoire, 43 Sw. Tomasza street at
Planty gardens, at 7 p.m. (free
admission).
Krakow’s violinist Aleksandra Szota, pianist
Malgorzata Westrych, and baritone Jan Migala perform
romantic music in Dworek Bialopradnicki culture
center, 2 Papiernicza street, at 6 p.m.
Latin jazz jam session takes place in Harris Piano
Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland’s veteran band, Tilt, performs punk rock in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
Ukraine’s Zoriana Grzybowska sings and plays bandura
in Dwor Czeczow culture center, 36 ks. Popieluszki
street, at 5 p.m.
Cracow Metro Band performs in Imbir
club, 35 Sw. Tomasza street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow's actress Anna Branny sings the Polish pop
songs of the 1960s in Teatr Bagatela theater, 6
Karmelicka street and Krupnicza street, at 7:15 p.m.
March 9, Tuesday: Krakow’s pianists Ewa
Bukojemska, Piotr Machnik, and Marcin Koziak plus Academy
of Music Symphonic Orchestra play Chopin’s
Variations no. 2, Fantasia on Polish Themes op. 13,
and piano concerto no. 1 in e minor op. 11 in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ in
Krakow Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Krakow's pianist Anna Boczar plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Dom Polonii, 14 Rynek Glowny square and
Grodzka street, at 7 p.m.
A Krakow pianist plays Chopin’s music for tourists
in Palac Pod Baranami, 27 Rynek Glowny central square,
at 7 p.m.
USA’s accomplished drummer Michael Zerang and his
trio play free jazz in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street
at Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
Krakow’s veteran jazzmen, Old Metropolitan Band,
perform Dixieland music in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28
Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Concert of alternative music features Konrad Geca in Eszeweria club, 9 Jozefa
street, at 8:30 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland's rock band, Blank Space, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Poland’s band, Spiral, performs rock music in
Zascianek club, 4 Rostafinskiego street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow's aspiring aktors sing Russian ballads by Bulat
Okujava and Vladimir Vysotsky plus French songs by
Jaques Brel in Srodmiejski Osrodek Kultury culture
center, 2 Mikolajska street at Maly Rynek square
(upstairs), at 7 p.m.
March 10, Wednesday: Krakow's pianist Joanna
Kukuczka plays music by Chopin and Paderewski in DK
Podgorze culture center, 18 Krasickiego street, at 6
p.m.
Jazz concert features 4A'Heads Quartet in Piec'Art club,
12 Szewska street, at 8:30 p.m.
Poland’s noted jazz pop vocalist Grazyna Lobaszewska
performs with Ajagore band in Harris Piano Jazz Bar,
28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Krakow's band, CroDad, performs funky jazz rock in
Drukarnia club, 1 Nadwislanska street, at 8 p.m.
Poland's rock band, Bongo Jerusalem, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Krakow's actress Anna Branny sings the Polish pop
songs of the 1960s in Teatr Bagatela theater, 6
Karmelicka street and Krupnicza street, at 5:30 p.m.
March 11, Thursday: Cracow Philharmonic
orchestra and Poland’s pianist Joanna Marcinkowska
play Chopin’s mazurkas in D major op. 33 no. 2 and
in C major op. 67 no. 3, nocturne in A sharp major op.
32 no. 2, and Fantasia in A major op. 13 in Filharmonia
concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Krakow’s Capella Cracoviensis chamber orchestra,
Academy of Music choir, and soloist singers perform
Franck’s Seven Word of Christ on the Cross plus five
other pieces of church music in Kosiol Sw. Jozefa
church, Rynek Podgorski square, at 7:15 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Pawel Kubica plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Hotel Grand, 5 Slawkowska street and sw.
Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
Japan’s Tokyo’s trio, Mouse on the Keys, perform
funky jazz rock in RE club, 4 Sw. Krzyza street, at 7 p.m.
Poland’s trio, Tymon Tymanski Jazz Experience, plays
unplugged in Zaczek club, 3 Maja street, at 8
p.m.
Jazz concert features 4A'Heads Quartet in Piec'Art club,
12 Szewska street, at 8:30 p.m.
Krakow's jazz quintet, Energy Drink, performs in
Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square),
at 9 p.m.
USA's indie rock band, Tito & Tarantula, perform in Rotunda club, 1 Oleandry
street, at 8 p.m.
Germany’s veteran punk rock band, Die Schwarzen
Schafe, plus Poland’s Codex Alimentarius perform in
Kawiarnia Naukowa club, 29 Jakuba street, at 7 p.m.
Concert of alternative music for guitar and percussion
instruments features Adam Hliniak, Michal Krygowski,
and Karol Wilkoszewski in Eszeweria club, 9 Jozefa
street, at 8:30 p.m. (free
admission).
Krakow's band, New Tango Bridge, performs jazzy tango
nueva in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 9 p.m.
Poland's rock band, Ocean, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Krakow's actress Anna Branny sings the Polish pop
songs of the 1960s in Teatr Bagatela theater, 6
Karmelicka street and Krupnicza street, at 5:30
p.m.
Krakow’s new rock band, Chlopacy, performs in Forty
Kleparz club, 2 Kamienna street, at 8 p.m.
Poland’s rock band, Nipu, performs in Gwarek club,
17 Reymonta street, at 8:30 p.m. (free
admission).
March 12, Friday:
Cracow Philharmonic orchestra and Poland’s
pianist Joanna Marcinkowska play Chopin’s mazurkas
in D major op. 33 no. 2 and in C major op. 67 no. 3,
nocturne in A sharp major op. 32 no. 2, and Fantasia in
A major op. 13 in Filharmonia concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 6
p.m.
Krakow's pianist Anna Boczar plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Dom Polonii, 14 Rynek Glowny square and
Grodzka street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's Niezgoda Acoustic Band plays jazz in
Cieplarnia club, 15 Bracka street, at 8 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland’s top rock band, Myslovitz,
performs in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Poland's top reggae band, Vavamuffin, performs in Rotunda club, 1 Oleandry
street, at 8 p.m.
Contemporary Noise Quintet performs in RE club, 4 Sw. Krzyza street, at 8
p.m.
Poland's Kajetan Drozd Acoustic Trio performs blues in Zaczek club, 3 Maja street, at 8
p.m.
Poland's blues band, Soul Finger, performs in Harris
Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9
p.m.
Poland's rock bands Corruption, Lostbone, and Purple
Haze perform metal music in Zascianek club, 4 Rostafinskiego street, at
7 p.m.
Krakow's pop singer Janusz Radek performs his show,
Queen of Night, in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 7 p.m.
Poland's rock band, Detox, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Krakow's actress Anna Branny sings the Polish pop
songs of the 1960s in Teatr Bagatela theater, 6
Karmelicka street and Krupnicza street, at 5:30 p.m.
March 13, Saturday: Vienna’s Goldberg Trio
render Mendelssohn’s piano trio in d minorop. 49,
Shostakovich's piano trio in C major op. 8, and
Schubert’s trio in B major in Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Germany’s Arirang-Quintet and Krakow Reed Trio
perform contemporary classical music by Polish abd
German composers in Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow’s pianist Jakub Dera plays music by Schubert,
Debussy, and Chopin in Muzeum Wyspianskiego museum, 5
Szczepanska street, at 4 p.m. (free admission).
Krakow Opera Company
produces Krzysztof Penderecki’s ‘Devils of
Loudun’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Poland's vocalist Ula Lazar and a jazz quintet, Move
On, perform in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Poland's jazz ensemble, ASAVIT, plays in Cieplarnia
club, 15 Bracka street, at 8 p.m. (free
admission).
Noted rock band, Hunter,
perform in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Poland’s Aleksandra Wysocka performs Ukrainian
folk songs and Russian ballads in Klub Kultury Wola,
215 Krolowej Jadwigi street, at 6 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland's rock bands Degradacja, ELOE, and Ostatnia
Minuta perform in
Kawiarnia Naukowa club, 29 Jakuba street, at 8 p.m.
Poland's rock band, Little Creatures, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Krakow's trio, Nazzar, performs music inspired by
traditional Jewish tunes in Galicia Museum, 18 Dajwor
street, at 7 p.m.
UK's acts Push and Bad Company plus an array of
Poland's DJs spin in Rotunda club, 1 Oleandry
street, at 9 p.m.
March 14, Sunday: UK’s Cambridge’s
chamber orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, with violinist
Jacqueline Shave, violist Clare Finnimore, cellist
Caroline Dearnley, and oboist Nicholas Daniel perform
Franz Schubert’s string trio in B major D 471,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Adagio for English horn
and strings KV 580, Ulrich Kreppein’s new work
(premiere), Mozart’s oboe quartet in F major KV 370,
and Franz Schumann’s Mondnacht in Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at noon.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Krzysztof Penderecki’s ‘Devils of
Loudun’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Krakow's pianist Pawel Kubica plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Hotel Grand, 5 Slawkowska street and sw.
Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's top singer-songwriter Grzegorz Turnau
performs in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Poland's blues trio, Acoustic Band Hard Times,
performs in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Phantom rock band performs in Jazz Rock Cafe, 12
Slawkowska street, at
8 p.m.
March 15, Monday:
Krakow's trio of singer Konrad Borek, violist Urszula
Lechowicz, and pianist Jacek Serafin perform
traditional Yiddish songs in Srodmiejski Osrodek
Kultury culture center, 2 Mikolajska street at Maly
Rynek square (upstairs), at 7 p.m.
Blues jam session takes place in Harris Piano Jazz
Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m. (free
admission).
March 16, Tuesday: A
Krakow pianist plays Chopin’s music for tourists in
Palac Pod Baranami, 27 Rynek Glowny central square, at
7 p.m.
Krakow
Opera Ballet dance Igor Stravinsky's ballet, 'Soldier's
Tale' in
Krakow Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Anna Boczar plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Dom Polonii, 14 Rynek Glowny square and
Grodzka street, at 7 p.m.
Poland's Brightside Quartet plays jazz in Harris Piano
Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Concert of alternative music features Poland's act, X-NaVI:et,
in Eszeweria club, 9 Jozefa
street, at 8:30 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland's rock band ReForma, performs
in Zascianek club, 4 Rostafinskiego street, at 8
p.m. (free
admission).
March 17, Wednesday: Poland’s male soprano
Dariusz Paradowski and pianist Michael Wladkowski
perform music by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven,
Karlowicz, Obradors, and Richard Strauss in the
Jagiellonian University’s Collegium Novum, 24
Golebia street at Planty gardens, at 7:30 p.m.
Krakow’s pianist Bozena Maciejowska-Banaszkiewicz
gives recital in Dworek Bialopradnicki culture center,
2 Papiernicza street, at 6 p.m. (free
admission).
Krakow
Opera Ballet dance Igor Stravinsky's ballet, 'Soldier's
Tale' in
Krakow Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
Krakow's soprano Aleksandra Sotnicka and tenor Dariusz
Palonek sings popular operetta arias and duets in DK
Podgorze culture center, 18 Krasickiego street, at 6
p.m.
USA’s saxophonist Dave Rempis and drummer Tim Daisy
plus Poland’s clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel and
Ukraine’s bassist Mark Tokar, i.e. Four quartet,
play free jazz in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
Poland's ensemble, Kaboka. performs jazz in Piec'Art club,
12 Szewska street, at 8:30 p.m.
Concert of alternative music features Mexico's Rodrigo
Sigal in Eszeweria club, 9 Jozefa
street, at 8:30 p.m. (free
admission).
Fusion jazz jam takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar,
28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland's rock bands Woody Alien and Uda, perform in
Kawiarnia Naukowa club, 29 Jakuba street, at 8 p.m.
March 18, Thursday: Canada's noted pianist
Louis Lortie plays Chopin's etudes in Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street
and Straszewskiego street, at 7:30 p.m.
Krakow’s guitarist Pawel Kwasny and Academy of
Music Chamber Orchestra play Heitor Villa Lobos’
guitar concerto in Aula Florianka, 8 Basztowa street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Pawel Kubica plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Hotel Grand, 5 Slawkowska street and sw.
Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
Poland’s young jazz diva Aga Zaryan sings in
Kijow.Centrum playhouse, 34 Krasinskiego street, at
7:30 p.m.
Poland's ensemble, Kaboka. performs jazz in Piec'Art club,
12 Szewska street, at 8:30 p.m.
Poland's band, Nie-Bo, performs jazzy music in Harris
Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9
p.m.
Poland's band, Digit All Love, performs electronic
triphop in Kinoteatr Uciecha playhouse, 16 Starowislna
street, at 8 p.m.
Poland's blues band, Soul Finger, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Russia’s singer-guitarist Evgen Malinovskiy performs
Russian ballads in Dworek Bialopradnicki culture
center, 2 Papiernicza street, at 6 p.m.
Polnad's alt pop band, Lala I Jevo Komanda, performs in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
March 19, Friday:
Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra plus Poland’s
soprano Kamila Kulakowska, alto Ewa Marciniec, tenor
Peter Gronlund, and baritone Jaroslaw Brek perform
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion BWV 244
in Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street
and Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow’s Perfugium Early Music Ensemble peforms
church music of the 16th to the 18th century in
Kosciol OO. Bernardynow church, 2 Bernardynska street,
at 7:15 p.m.
Krakow’s pianist Adam Dobrowolski plays music by
Chopin, Bach, and Schumann in Malwa club, 6 Dobrego
Pasterza street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Anna Boczar plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Dom Polonii, 14 Rynek Glowny square and
Grodzka street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's Niezgoda Acoustic Band plays jazz in
Cieplarnia club, 15 Bracka street, at 8 p.m. (free
admission).
USA’s Seattle’s singer-songwriter Jesy Fortino
performs with her band, Tiny Vipers, supported by
Crystal Hell Pool, in Forty Kleparz club, 2 Kamienna
street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow's mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Slota Marciniec
sings in Dwor Czeczow culture center, 36 ks.
Popieluszki street, at 10 a.m.
Poland’s noted rock band, Lao Che, performs in
Studio club, 4 Budryka street, at 8 p.m.
Poland's accomplished reggae band, Paprika Korps, plus
Per-Wers and Poludnica perform in Zaczek club, 3 Maja street, at 8
p.m.
Poland's blues band, Skazani, performs in Harris Piano
Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Poland's jazz rock band, Nie-Bo, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
March 20, Saturday:
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra plus Poland’s
soprano Kamila Kulakowska, alto Ewa Marciniec, tenor
Peter Gronlund, and baritone Jaroslaw Brek perform
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion BWV 244
in Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street
and Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Poland’s trio of jazzmen, The Lirium Tremens, play free jazz in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
Poland's Mikolaj Budniak Quintet plays jazz in Harris
Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9
p.m.
Poland’s noted jazzman Mikolaj Trzaska plays
solo in Cheder Cafe, 36 Jozefa street, at 8 p.m.
Poland's Adam Nowicki Band plays jazz in Cieplarnia
club, 15 Bracka street, at 8 p.m. (free
admission).
Germany’s noted rock band, Mad Sin, performs
psychobilly in Kwadrat club, 1 Skarzynskiego street,
at 7 p.m.
Mexico’s Rodrigo Sigal performs electronic music in
Bunkier Sztuki gallery, 3 Plac Szczepanski at Planty
gardens.
An array of Poland’s noted rock bands performs metal
music in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 3 p.m.
Poland's rock band, Detox, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Krakow’s young singer-songwriter Edward Zawilinski
gives recital in Loch Camelot, 17 Sw. Tomasza street,
at 8 p.m.
Krakow's trio, Nazzar, performs music inspired by
traditional Jewish tunes in Galicia Museum, 18 Dajwor
street, at 7 p.m.
March 21, Sunday:
Poland’s violinists Maria Machowska and Agata Szymczewska,
violist Artur Rozmyslowicz, cellist Rafal Kwiatkowski, and
pianist Janusz Olejniczak render Frederic Chopin’s piano
concerto in f minor arranged for a quintet and Robert
Schumann’s piano quintet in E sharp major opus 44in the Filharmonia Krakowska hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Flutist Wilbert Hazelzet and harpsichordist Jacques Ogg play
J.S. Bach’s sonatas in A major BWV 1032, in G major BWV 525,
and in h minor BWV 1030, W.F. Bach’s sonata in e minor, and
C.P.E. Bach’s Duetto in D major Wq. 83 - in Aula Florianka,
8 Basztowa street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow’s violist Robert Kabara, guitarist Michal Nagy, and
oboist Arkadiusz Krupa play music by Schubert and Baroque
composers in the Jagiellonian University’s Collegium Novum,
24 Golebia street at Planty gardens.
Krakow’s Perfugium Early Music Ensemble peforms church music
of the 16th to the 18th century in Kosciol Sw. Marka church,
Slawkowska street and Sw. Marka street, at 5 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Krakow's pianist Pawel Kubica plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Hotel Grand, 5 Slawkowska street and sw.
Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
Brazil’s Wilsona Sukorskiego performs electronic
music in Bunkier Sztuki gallery, 3 Plac Szczepanski at
Planty gardens.
Poland's Agnieszka Grochowicz Quintet performs jazz in
Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square),
at 9 p.m.
Poland's accomplished rocker Muniek Staszczyk performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Poland’s rock band, Coma,
performs in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Rock concert features Poland's bands Zielone Zabki,
Stroke, ADHD, Syndrom, and Ptasia Grypa in Imbir
club, 35 Sw. Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
Poland’s singer-songwiriter Mariusz Lubomski gives
recital in Forty Kleparz club, 2 Kamienna street, at 8
p.m.
Poland’s rock band, Przasniczki, performs in Carpe
Diem club, 33 Florianska street and Sw. Marka street,
at 8 p.m.
March 22, Monday: Krakow’s violinist Zbigniew
Pilch and harpsichordist Elzbieta Stefanska render
J.S. Bach’s sonata no. 1 in h minor, toccata and
fugue in e minor in transcription for solo violin,
sonata no. 3 in E major, sonata no. 1 in g minor for
solo violin, and sonata no. 4 in c minor - in Aula
Florianka, 8 Basztowa street, at 7 p.m.
Jazz jam takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28
Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland’s pop acts Natalia
Kukulska, Katarzyna Jamroz, Anna Sokolowska, and
Mariusz Jasko sing Polish songs in Teatr Groteska
playhouse, 2. Skarbowa street, at 7 p.m.
March 23, Tuesday: Concert of classical music
features Couperin’s Le Parnasse ou L'Apothéose de
Corelli for two harpsichords, Dieupart’s Sixieme
Suitte in f, Weckmann’s Toccata vel praeludium in d,
Bach’s sonata in G major for two harpsichords, and
Couperin’s Les Nations: Premier Ordre de trios - in
Aula Florianka, 8 Basztowa street, at 5 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland’s Szczawnica Chamber Choir and Krakow’s
organist Arkadiusz Bialic perform old Polish music,
contemporary church music, early organ music, and
Mendelssohn’s music in Kosciol Sw. Barbary, Plac
Mariacki (behind St. Mary’s Basilica at central
square), at 4:45 p.m.
Concert of classical music features Bach’s toccatas,
fantasias, and fugues in Aula Florianka, 8 Basztowa
street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Anna Boczar plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Dom Polonii, 14 Rynek Glowny square and
Grodzka street, at 7 p.m.
A Krakow pianist plays
Chopin’s music for tourists in Palac Pod Baranami,
27 Rynek Glowny central square, at 7 p.m.
Poland's jazz quintet, Ventura, plays fusion music in
Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square),
at 9 p.m.
Jazz concert features Poland’s trio, Pawel
Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Band plus saxophonist Grzech
Piotrowski, in Piec'Art club, 12 Szewska street, at
8:30 p.m.
Concert of alternative music features Lukasz Kozak and
Slawek Maler in Eszeweria club, 9 Jozefa
street, at 8:30 p.m. (free
admission).
March 24, Wednesday:
Germany’s harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim plays
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier
vol. I in the Wawel Royal Castle’s Sala Senatorska
hall at 7:30 p.m.
Poland’s violinist Anna Sliwa, cellist Teresa
Kaminska, and harpsichordist Andrzej Zawisza play
Bach’s sonata no. 2 in A major, sonata in G major,
sonata in f moinor BWV 1018, sonata in e minor na
skrzypce, and sonata no. 6 in G major for violin and
harpsichord - in Aula Florianka, 8 Basztowa street, at
7 p.m.
Krakow Opera company produces its show, I Sing the
Rhyme of Love, in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
Krakow’s soprano Ewa Warta-Smietana plus pianists Krystyna Man Li
Szczepanska and Malgorzata Westrych perform Chopin’s
music in Srodmiejski Osrodek Kultury culture center, 2
Mikolajska street at Maly Rynek square (upstairs), at
6 p.m.
Poland's Pezda Trio performs jazz in Piec'Art club,
12 Szewska street, at 8:30 p.m.
Latin jazz jam takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand
Square), at 9 p.m. (free admission).
Canada’s avant pop trio, No Kids, performs in Alchemia club, 5 Estery
street at Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m., followed by the
USA’s band Chain And The Gang at 9 p.m., and Phil
Elverum with his band, Mount Eerie, at 10:30 p.m.
Krakow's Artur Lukiewicz i Krzysztof Hliniak perform boss nova and other
Latin tunes in DK Podgorze culture center, 18
Krasickiego street, at 6 p.m.
March 25, Thursday: Concert Our Chopin Affair
features Portugal's stellar fado singer Misia in Krakow
Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 7:30 p.m.
Flutist Peter Holtslag and violinist Zbigniew Pilch
plus Krakow’s Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra
render Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude BWV 1105, Kunst der
Fuge: Contrapunctus IV, Contrapunctus XV - Wenn wir in
hoechsten Noeten sein, concerto in E major, and
concerto in d minor - in Aula Florianka, 8 Basztowa
street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Young Philharmonics youth orchestra, Cracow
Papal University Women Choir, soprano Joanna Stawarska,
and countertenor Piotr Kuczek perform Pergolessi’s
Stabat Mater in Kosciol Sw. Judy Tadeusza at 6:45 p.m.
(free admission).
Krakow's cellist Tomasz Strahl, accordionist Klaudiusz
Baran, saxophonist Barlomiej Dus, and Fresco Sonare
Youth Chamber Orchestra render Maciej Malecki's Hymnus
for saxophone and strings, Samuel Barber's Adagio, and
Sofia Gubaidulina's Seven Last Words of Christ on the
Cross - in Kosciol Sw. Katarzyny church, Skaleczna
street and Augustianska street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Pawel Kubica plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Hotel Grand, 5 Slawkowska street and sw.
Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
Poland's jazz quartet, Jazzpospolita, plays in Harris
Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9
p.m.
Poland’s duo of saxophonist Mikolaj Trzaska and
guitarist Raphael Roginski play free jazz in Alchemia
club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
Poland's jazz ensemble, Kolorofon, performs in
Drukarnia club, 1 Nadwislanska street, at 8 p.m.
UK’s rising indie rock band, The Subways, performs
in Loch Ness club, 15 Warszawska street, at 8
p.m.
UK's noted rocker Eric Bell, formerly Thin Lizzy, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Poland’s accomplished singer-songwriter Piotr
Bukartyk performs in Gwarek club, 17 Reymonta street,
at 8 p.m.
March 26, Friday:
Poland’s flutist Tomasz Pawel Potaczek, violinist
Agnieszka Krawczyk, Mateusz Kowalski playing viola da
gamba, and harpsichordists Beata Hortynska, Mariko
Kato, and Marta Klimczyk plus Krakow’s Academy of
Music Baroque Orchestra render Bach’s concerto in C
major for two harpsichords, concerto in e minor for
flute and violin, Brandenburg concerto no. 5, and
harpsichord concerto in D major - in Aula Florianka, 8
Basztowa street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Amsterdam’s company of players, Iminami, performs
its electronic show in Akademia Muzyczna
conservatoire, 43 Sw. Tomasza street at Planty
gardens, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's pianist Anna Boczar plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Dom Polonii, 14 Rynek Glowny square and
Grodzka street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow's Niezgoda Acoustic Band plays jazz in
Cieplarnia club, 15 Bracka street, at 8 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland’s Robert Klepacz Trio performs Jobim’s
bossa novas in Klub Kultury Wola, 215 Krolowej Jadwigi
street, at 6 p.m. (free admission).
Krakow's band, Que passa, performs jazzy Latin tunes
in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand
Square), at 9 p.m.
Poland’s ensemble, Male Instrumenty, performs its
queer music in Bunkier Sztuki gallery, 3 Plac
Szczepanski at Planty gardens.
Poland’s noted hiphop acts, OSTR and LDZ, plus the
USA's Cadillac Dale perform in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Germany's rock band, Planet, supported by Transola,
perform in
Kawiarnia Naukowa club, 29 Jakuba street, at 8 p.m.
Rock concert features Rocket Mary in Imbir
club, 35 Sw. Tomasza street, at 6 p.m.
Poland's rock band, Latajace Talerze, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Poland’s pop band, Niemoc, performs in Srodmiejski
Osrodek Kultury culture center, 2 Mikolajska street at
Maly Rynek square (upstairs), at 6 p.m.
March 27, Saturday:
Germany’s noted clavichord player Bernhard Klapprott
renders Bach’s Inventio 1-15 BWV 772-786, and
Sinfonia 1-15 BWV 787-801 in Aula Florianka, 8
Basztowa street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir plus the
UK’s mezzo-soprano Marjorie Elinor Dix, tenor Thomas
Mohr, and bass-baritone John Cheek perform Richard
Wagner’s 2nd act of opera Parsifal in
Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Amsterdam’s company of players, Iminami, performs
its electronic show in Akademia Muzyczna
conservatoire, 43 Sw. Tomasza street at Planty
gardens, at 7 p.m.
France’s noted guitarist Nguyem Le plus Poland’s
drummer Jacek Kochan and his ensemble play new jazz in
Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square, at
8 p.m.
Poland's Ryszard Swiech Trio plays jazz in Cieplarnia
club, 15 Bracka street, at 8 p.m. (free
admission).
Poland's jazz trio, Yankel Band, plays in Harris Piano
Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Jazz concert features Poland’s vocalist Ewa Uryga in
Coltrane club, 4 Plac Biskupi square, at 8 p.m.
USA's indie rock band, Talibam!, supported by Kristen,
performs in RE club, 4 Sw. Krzyza street, at 8
p.m.
Poland’s rock band, Strachy Na Lachy,
performs in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Poland's veteran rock band, TSA, performs
in Loch Ness club, 15 Warszawska street, at 8
p.m.
Poland's rock band, present Perfect, performs in Lizard King
club, 11a Sw. Tomasza street, at 9 p.m.
Krakow’s pop singer Jaga Wronska performs Lent songs
in Loch Camelot, 17 Sw. Tomasza street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow's trio, Nazzar, performs music inspired by
traditional Jewish tunes in Galicia Museum, 18 Dajwor
street, at 7 p.m.
March 28, Sunday:
Krakow’s Cappella Cracoviensis orchestra and
choir with the UK’s conductor Andrew Parrott plus
tenor Marc Molomot perform Bach’s St. John’s Passion in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow’s Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra with
young soloist singers perform Bach’s cantatas BWV
127, BWV 103, BWV 51, Brandenburg concerto no. 4, and
Furchte dich nich, ich bin bei dir BWV 228 - in Aula
Florianka, 8 Basztowa street, at 5 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Krakow's pianist Pawel Kubica plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Hotel Grand, 5 Slawkowska street and sw.
Tomasza street, at 7 p.m.
Poland's Malgorzata Markowska Band performs jazz in
Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square),
at 9 p.m.
New York’s noted indie rock band, Pterodactyl,
performs in Forty Kleparz club, 2 Kamienna street, at
8 p.m.
Poland’s noted blues band, Nocna Zmiana Bluesa,
performs in Studio club, 2 Budryka street, from 8 p.m.
Ireland’s famed company of dancers, Gaelforce Dance,
performs its show of Celtic tunes in the Jagiellonian
University’s Auditorium Maximum, 35 Krupnicza
street, at 7 p.m.
Poland’s pop act Marta Honzatko performs in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
Krakow's soprano Ewa Diczuk-Koziol plus pianists Maria
Guzik and flutist Filip Slowiak perform Polish Lent
music in Dwor Czeczow culture center, 36 ks.
Popieluszki street, at 7 p.m.
March 29, Monday:
Italy’s sopranos Maria Grazia Schiavo
and Patrizia Bovi, alto Romina Basso, tenor Pino de
Vittorio, and Capella della Pieta de' Turchini
ensemble with conductor Antonio Florio perform Intorno
Allo’s Stabat in Kosciol Sw. Katarzyny church,
Augustianska street and Skaleczna street, at 8
p.m.
Jazz jam takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28
Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m. (free
admission).
March 30, Tuesday:
UK’s soprano Claire Booth, mezzo-soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, tenor David Alegret, soprano Ina
Kancheva, counter-tenor Jordi Domenach, baritone
Miguel Sola, and Italy’s Accademia Bizantina
ensemble with conductor Stefano Montanari render
Antonio Caldara’s Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Krakow's pianist Anna Boczar plays Chopin's music for
tourists in Dom Polonii, 14 Rynek Glowny square and
Grodzka street, at 7 p.m.
A Krakow pianist plays Chopin’s music for tourists
in Palac Pod Baranami, 27 Rynek Glowny central square,
at 7 p.m.
Poland's jazz rock band, CroDad & 100 Years,
performs in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28 Rynek Glowny
(Grand Square), at 9 p.m.
Germany's rock band, RPWL, performs in Rotunda club, 1 Oleandry
street, at 9 p.m.
An array of Krakow’s pop acts performs songs by
Basia Stepniak-Wilk and Olek Brzezinski in Teatr
Groteska playhouse, 2 Skarbowa street, at 7 p.m.
March 31, Wednesday:
Spain’s sopranos Montserrat Figueras and Adriana
Fernandez, France’s counter-tenors Pascal Bertin and
David Sagastume, tenors Lluís Vilamajo and Francesco
Garrigosa, baritone Furio Zanasi, bass Daniele
Carnovich, and La Capella Reial de Catalunya and
Hesperion XXI ensembles with conductor Jordi Savall
plus Hiroyuki Koinuma playing shinobue and nokan,
Yukio Tanaka playing chant and biwa, Ichiro Seki
playing shakuhachi, Masako Hirao playing viola da
gamba basse, Prabhu Edouard playing tablas, and Ken
Zuckerman playing dhotar and sarod perform La Ruta de
Oriente in Kosciol Sw. Katarzyny church, Augustianska
street and Skaleczna street, at 8 p.m.
Poland's trio, TTS, performs jazz in Piec'Art club,
12 Szewska street, at 8:30 p.m.
Poland’s Wojciech Mazolewski Quintet plays free jazz in Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at
Plac Nowy square, at 8 p.m.
Jazz jam takes place in Harris Piano Jazz Bar, 28
Rynek Glowny (Grand Square), at 9 p.m. (free
admission).
Sweden’s noted rock band, Katatonia, performs
progressive metal music in Rotunda club, 1 Oleandry
street, at 8 p.m.
April events in Krakow.
Krakow's
Easter festival of classical music, Misteria Paschalia,
takes place from March 29th through April
5th.
April
1st, Thursday: Italy’s Venice’s early music
ensemble, La Venexiana, with conductor Claudio Cavina
perform Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri in
Kosciol Franciszkanow church, Franciszkanska street at
Planty gardens, at 10 p.m.
April 2nd,
Friday: Sopranos Joanna Lunn and Judith Gauthier,
mezzo-soprano Delphine Galou, counter-tenor Owen
Willetts, tenors Markus Brutscher and Nicholas Mulroy,
basses Christian Immler and Benoit Arnoult, and
France’s Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble ensemble
with conductor Marc Minkowski render Johann Sebastian
Bach’s St. John’s Passion in Filharmonia Krakowska
concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 8 p.m.
April 3rd,
Saturday: France’s counter-tenor Philippe
Jaroussky and L'Arpeggiata ensemble with conductor
Christina Pluhar perform Audi Coelum / Teatro d'Amore
in the Wieliczka Salt Mine’s underground St Kinga's
Chapel at 8 p.m.
April 4th,
Sunday: Italy’s sopranos Maria Espada and
Roberta Invernizzi, alto Marina De Liso, tenor Jeremy
Ovenden, bass Luca Pisaroni, and Il Giardino Armonico
ensemble with conductor Giovanni Antonini perform
George Frideric Handel’s La Resurrezione in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 8 p.m.
April 5th, Monday: France’s mezzo-soprano Vivica
Genaux and Europa Galante ensemble with conductor
Fabio Biondi perform Antonio Vivaldi’s Arie e
concerti II in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 8
p.m.
Traditional Emaus fair takes place alongside
Kosciuszki street next to St. Norbert's convent.
April 6th, Tuesday: Traditional Rekawka fair takes
place near Kopiec Kraka ancient
mound in the Podgorze
district.
April
7th, Wednesday:
Krakow’s soprano Marta Boberska, trumpeter
Waclaw Mulak, cellist Jacek Kociuban, and
harpsichordist Andrzej Zawisza perform Damian
Stachowicz’s Veni Consolator, Georg Friedrich
Handel’s Let The Bright Seraphim and Eternal
source, and Alessandro Scarlatti’s Si suoni
la tromba (In terra la Guerra, Con voce festiva,
Rompe sprezza, Mio tesoro per te mor) in the Wawel
Royal Castle’s Sala Senatorska at 7:30 p.m.
Krakow Opera company produces its show, I Sing the
Rhyme of Love, in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
April 9th, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra with Ukraine’s conductor Vladimir Sirenko
and violinist Dima Tkachenko render Carl Nielsen’s
violin concerto op. 33 and Jean Sibelius’ symphony
no. 2 in D major op. 43 in Filharmonia Krakowska
concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Poland’s reggae acts Bob One, Junior Stress, Masala
Soundsystem, and EastWest Rockers perform in Kwadrat
club, 1 Skarzynskiego street, at 7 p.m.
April 10th,
Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra with
Ukraine’s conductor Vladimir Sirenko and violinist
Dima Tkachenko render Carl Nielsen’s violin concerto
op. 33 and Jean Sibelius’ symphony no. 2 in D major
op. 43 in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 6
p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Poland’s reggae acts Jamal Soundsystem, Abradab
& Gutek, Mr King Lover & Brojah, and Izrael
perform in Kwadrat club, 1 Skarzynskiego street, at 7
p.m.
April 11th, Sunday:
Concert Chopin in Blue features Poland's
noted jazz pianists Joachim Mencel, Wojciech Groborz,
and Leszek Zadlo among others in Akademia Muzyczna
conservatoire, 43 Sw. Tomasza street at Planty
gardens, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
April 14th, Wedesday: Krakow Opera Company
produces Viktor Ullmann’s ‘The Emperor of
Atlantis’ and David Eddleman’s ‘Kolot min
HaShoah’ sung in German and Yiddish (with Polish
subtitles) in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
April 15th, Thursday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Poland’s mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Suska
perform Georges Bizet’s suite from opera Carmen plus
Manuel de Falla’s music from ballets El amor
brujo and The Three-Cornered Hat in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
April 16th, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Poland’s mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Suska
perform Georges Bizet’s suite from opera Carmen plus
Manuel de Falla’s music from ballets El amor
brujo and The Three-Cornered Hat in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Jazz concert features Poland’s saxophonist Piotr
Baron in Coltrane club, 4 Plac Biskupi square, at 8
p.m.
April 17th, Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic Choir
sings Ariel Ramirez’s Misa Criolla in Filharmonia
concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Mozart’s ‘Don Giovani’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
April 18th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company
produces Mozart’s ‘Don Giovani’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
April 20th, Tuesday:
Krakow Opera company produces its show, I Sing the
Rhyme of Love, in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
April 21st, Wednesday: China’s violist Wei
Zhang, Poland’s violist Blazej Michna, cellist
Franciszek Pall, and pianist Magdalena Kantor-Michna
play Richard Strauss’s sonata for cello and piano in
F major op. 6, Cesar Franck’s sonata for viola and
piano in A major, Arnold Bax’s sonata for viola and
piano, and Aleksander Tansman’s Suite-Divertissement
fro violin, viola, cello, and piano in Filharmonia
concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera company produces its show, I Sing the
Rhyme of Love, in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
April 23rd, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra with France’s conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud
and violinist Olivier Charlier play Paul Dukas’
symphonic suite La Péri, Edouard Lalo’s
Spanish symphony op.21, and Cesar Franck’s symphony
in d minor in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 7
p.m.
April 24th, Saturdday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra with France’s conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud
and violinist Olivier Charlier play Paul Dukas’
symphonic suite La Péri, Edouard Lalo’s
Spanish symphony op.21, and Cesar Franck’s symphony
in d minor in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 6
p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Charles Gounod’s ‘Faust’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
April 25th, Sunday: UK’s Cambridge’s
chamber orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, violinist
Jacqueline Shave, violist Martin Outram, and pianist
Gwilym Simcock play Gwilym Simcock’s new work
(premiere), Olivier Messiaen’s Louange l’Éternité
de Jésus, and Maurice Ravel’s piano trio in a
minor in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at
noon.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Charles Gounod’s ‘Faust’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
April 30th, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra render Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Grand
Partite KV 361 and Joseph Haydn’s symphony in C
major no. 90 in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 7
p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Gioacchino Rossini’s ‘Cinderella’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Krakow
events planned for May.
May
2nd, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company
produces Gioacchino Rossini’s ‘Cinderella’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
May 4th,
Tuesday: Krakow Opera Company
produces Gioacchino Rossini’s ‘Cinderella’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
11 a.m.
May
5th, Wednesday: Poland’s soprano Karolina
Brachman and Parnassoss quintet performs medieval
music Salve Regina and the Baroque variations on it in
the Wawel Royal Castle’s Sala Senatorska at 7:30
p.m.
Krakow Opera company produces its show, I Sing the
Rhyme of Love, in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
May 6th, Thursday: Krakow Opera company produces its show, I Sing the
Rhyme of Love, in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
May 7th, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra
and Choir with conductor Antoni Wit, soprano
Christiane Libor, mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Holysz,
tenor Tomasz Rak, and bass Wojciech Gierlach render
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Opferlied op. 121b and
cantata for the death of Emperor Joseph II plus
Richard Strauss’ Wanderers Sturmlied op. 14 and Four
Last Songs, in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 7
p.m.
Concert of operatic music takes place in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
May 8th, Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Choir with conductor Antoni Wit, soprano
Christiane Libor, mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Holysz,
tenor Tomasz Rak, and bass Wojciech Gierlach render
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Opferlied op. 121b and
cantata for the death of Emperor Joseph II plus
Richard Strauss’ Wanderers Sturmlied op. 14 and Four
Last Songs, in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 6
p.m.
Concert of operatic music takes place in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
May 11th, Tuesday:
Krakow
Opera Ballet dance Igor Stravinsky's ballet, 'Soldier's
Tale' in
Krakow Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
May 12th, Wednesday:
Krakow
Opera Ballet dance Igor Stravinsky's ballet, 'Soldier's
Tale' in
Krakow Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
May 14th, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra
and Poland’s violinist Mariusz Patyra play John
Adams’ violin concerto and Leonard Bernstein’s
West Side Story suite in Filharmonia Krakowska concert
hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego
street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30 p.m.
May 15th, Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Poland’s violinist Mariusz Patyra play
John Adams’ violin concerto and Leonard
Bernstein’s West Side Story suite in Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30 p.m.
May 16th, Sunday: Pianist Olga Kern plays
Haydn’s sonata in C major Hob. XVI:50, Chopin’s
sonata no. 2 in b minor op. 35, Rachmaninoff’s
sonata no. 2 in b minor op. 36, and Liszts rhapsody
no. 2 in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 6
p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30 p.m.
May 19th, Wednesday: Italy's Il Giardino
Armonico ensemble with conductor Giovanni Antonini,
counter-alto Sonia Prina, and soprano Roberta
Invernizzi and alto Veronica Cangemi perform a concert
version of Vivaldi’s opera, Ottone in Villa, in
Teatr Slowackiego theater, 1 Plac Sw. Ducha square and
Szpitalna street, at 8 p.m.
Poland’s clarinetist
Krzysztof Zbijowski, violinist Kuba Jakowicz, cellist
Karol Marianowski, and pianist Maciej Grzybowski play
Polish contemporary classical music, i.e. Pawel
Mykietyn’s Choc dolecial Dedal, Andrzej
Czajkowski’s Trio Notturno, and Marek Stachowski’s
Time Mirrors in the Jagiellonian University’s
Collegium Novum, 24 Golebia street at Planty gardens,
at 7:30 p.m.
May 21st, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra
and Poland’s violinist Marta Lelek render William
Walton’s violin concerto and Edward Elgar’s Enigma
Variations in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 7
p.m.
May 22nd, Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Poland’s violinist Marta Lelek render
William Walton’s violin concerto and Edward
Elgar’s Enigma Variations in Filharmonia Krakowska
concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Peter Tchaikovsky's opera, 'The Queen of
Spades', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30
p.m.
May 23rd, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company
produces Peter Tchaikovsky's opera, 'The Queen of
Spades', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30
p.m.
May 27th, Thursday: Cracow Philharmonic Choir
sings Robert Schumann’s Four Songs op.141 (An die
Sterne, Ungewisses Licht, Zuversicht, Talismane),
Maciej Malecki’s Wiej wichrze zimowy and Ulanska
fantazja, James Erb’s Shenandoah, Mark Hayes’ Home
on the Range, Leroy Yarbough’s Amazing Grace, Songs
of Asia and The Pacific (Japan’s Chiran-bushi,
Indonesia’s Soleram, Philippine’s Osi Osi, and
Australia’s Waltzing Matilda in Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces premiere of its show, 'The Secrets of the
Forest Book', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30
p.m.
May 28th, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Poland’s outstanding young pianist Rafal Blechacz play
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski’s overture to opera Monbar
op. 30, Franciszek Mirecki’s symphony in c minor,
and Fryderyk Chopin’s piano concerto no. 2 in f
minor op. 21 in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 7
p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces its show, 'The Secrets of the Forest Book', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30
p.m.
Jazz concert features Poland’s Piotr Wojtasik in
Coltrane club, 4 Plac Biskupi square, at 8 p.m.
May 29th, Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and pianist Ingolf Wunder play Ignacy Feliks
Dobrzynski’s overture to opera Monbar op. 30,
Franciszek Mirecki’s symphony in c minor, and
Fryderyk Chopin’s piano concerto in e minor op. 11
in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces its show, 'The Secrets of the Forest Book', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
noon.
Krakow
Opera Ballet dance their spectacle, 'The Glances'
with music by Gounod and Ravel in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
May 30th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company
produces its show, 'The Secrets of the Forest Book', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
noon.
Krakow
Opera Ballet dance their spectacle, 'The Glances'
with music by Gounod and Ravel in Opera
House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 p.m.
Events
expected in Krakow in June.
June
4th, Friday: Russia’s pianist and Cracow
Philharmonic Orchestra with the UK’s conductor
Hobart Earle render Alexander Borodin’s Polovtzan
Dances, Sergei Prokofiev’s piano concerto no. 3 in C
major op. 26, and Igor Stravinsky’s Fire Bird (the
1919 version) in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1
Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, at 7
p.m.
June 5th, Saturday:
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Russia’s pianist and Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra with the UK’s conductor Hobart Earle play
Alexander Borodin’s Polovtzan Dances, Sergei
Prokofiev’s piano concerto no. 3 in C major op. 26,
and Igor Stravinsky’s Fire Bird (the 1919 version)
in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
June 6th, Sunday:
Krakow Opera Company
produces Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
June 10th, Thursday: Traditional
Lajkonik pageant proceeds from St.
Norbert's convent at 88 Kosciuszki street
down Zwierzyniecka street to Rynek
Glowny central square.
June 11th, Friday:
Concert of classical music features Cracow
Philharmonic Orchestra and Krakow's young soloists in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
June 12th, Saturday: Krakow Opera Company
produces Stanislaw Moniuszko’s ‘The Haunted
Manor’, the Polish national opera, in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Poland’s pianist Joanna
Marcinkowska, violinist Wieslaw Kwasny, and Cracow
Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir perform Antonio
Vivaldi’s concerto no. 2 in g minor op. 8 Summer (L'Estate)
RV 315, Frederic Chopin’s Fantasia in A major on
Polish themes op. 13, Alexander Borodin’s Polovtzan
Dances, and Georges Bizet’s Carmen opera first suite
in Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 5 p.m.
June 13th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company
produces Stanislaw Moniuszko’s ‘The Haunted
Manor’, the Polish national opera, in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
June 15th, Tuesday:
Krakow Opera Company
produces its show, 'The Secrets of the Forest Book', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
11 a.m.
June 16th, Wednesday:
Krakow Opera Company
produces its show, 'The Secrets of the Forest Book', in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
11 a.m.
June 18th, Friday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Choir plus alto Marjana Lipovsek render
Gustav Mahler’s symphony no. 3 in d minor in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 7 p.m.
Jazz concert features Poland’s pianist Adam
Pieronczyk in Coltrane club, 4 Plac Biskupi square, at
8 p.m.
June 19th, Saturday: Cracow Philharmonic
Orchestra and Choir plus alto Marjana Lipovsek render
Gustav Mahler’s symphony no. 3 in d minor in
Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka
street and Straszewskiego street, at 6 p.m.
Krakow Opera Company
produces Johann Strauss’ operetta, ‘Der
Zigeunerbaron’
in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at
6:30
p.m.
Events
in Krakow anticipated in July.
July
3rd, Saturday: Poland's pianist Aleksander
Gawryluk and Aukso chamber orchestra play Chopin's
music next to the Wawel
Royal Castle at 8 p.m.
July 22nd, Thursday: Concert of classical music
features violinists Johann Johannsson and Robert
Kabara in the Jagiellonian University’s Auditorium
Maximum, 35 Krupnicza street.
Events
expected in Krakow in August.
33rd
Music in
Old Krakow festival of classical music
takes place from August 15th to August with daily
concerts in the city's old churches and other
venues.
Coke
Live Music Festival features international array of
rock bands and pop acts August 20th-21st at Polish
Aviation Museum, 39 Jana Pawla II avenue.
August
18th, Wednesday: USA's stellar jazz vocalist Bobby
McFerrin and Germany's NDR Big Band perform Chopin's
music.
Some
Worthwhile
Temporary Exhibitions in Krakow
Home
for Art Lover. Artistic Culture of the Bohemia and
Moravia 1870-1930. Czech art and design of the
fin de siecle. Also prints by Alfons Mucha, Gustav
Klimt, and Egon Schiele. Miedzynarodowe
Centrum Kultury at 25 Rynek Glowny central square
from February 2nd through April 25th.
Sarmatism.
A Dream of Power. Portraits of Poland's nobility
from the 16th to the 19th centuries plus old Polish
weapons, period costumes and jewelry, prints, etc.
Stanislaw Wyspianski Museum in Szolayski House (a
branch of the National
Museum in Krakow)
at 11 Szczepanska Street and Plac Szczepanski square,
through May 30th.
Japanese
Woodcuts: Images of Armed Men. Traditional
Japanese color engravings showing samurai and other
warriors. Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and
Technology at 26 Konopnickiej street through May
2nd.
Islam.
Orientation. Ornament. Lavishly decorated items
from the Arab Middle East and north Africa.
Ethnographic Museum at 1 Plac Wolnica square through
March 28th.
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