The concert includes Weinberg’s Suite for Orchestra and the Violin Concerto Op. 67, and Andrzej Panufnik’s Sinfonia Sacra.
The Katowice Academy of Music Orchestra will perform, conducted by Wojciech Rodek.
The competition’s first round will begin on Monday, with 23 contestants from several European countries as well as Japan and South Korea vying for a top prize of EUR 10,000.
They have been selected from more than 50 candidates who had submitted their applications in the form of video recordings.
The competition is open to violinists under 30 and comprises two initial rounds and the finals.
The prizewinners will be announced on December 8, coinciding with the 105th anniversary of Weinberg’s birth.
The annual Weinberg International Violin Competition, which was launched in 2021, aims to promote the composer’s legacy.
Born in Warsaw in 1909, Mieczysław Weinberg was a Polish Jew who escaped the Nazis by fleeing into the Soviet Union.
In 1943, he settled in Moscow, where he worked as a composer and pianist.
In 1953, he was arrested as part of Josef Stalin’s anti-Semitic purges, but was released after the Soviet dictator’s death thanks to support from Dmitri Shostakovich, the well-known Russian composer and pianist.
Weinberg, otherwise known as Wajnberg, died in Moscow in 1996, leaving behind an output of more than 20 symphonies, 17 string quartets and six operas, as well as a wealth of chamber music for various instruments and songs.
The past two decades have seen a revival of interest in Weinberg’s music.
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