The itinerary included five more concerts in venues across Florida, in Palm Beach, Daytona Beach, Orlando, Naples, and Sarasota.
The repertoire consisted of Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E-minor performed by Canada’s Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, the winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw; the overture to the opera Paria by Stanisław Moniuszko; and symphonies by Brahms and Grieg.
The orchestra was conducted by its music director Andrzej Boreyko. All the concerts opened with the Ukrainian national anthem.
Andrzej Boreyko (centre) and members of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Photo: Leszek Szymański/PAP
Andrzej Boreyko. Photo: Jakub Kukla/PR2
It was the Warsaw Philharmonic's 154th foreign tour in its 120-year history. It was organized by the Warsaw-based Adam Mickiewicz Institute, together with the Polish Institute in New York, the Chopin Foundation of the United States, and the American Institute of Polish Culture in Miami.
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