The concert will round off the first day of the 29th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which Łódź is hosting on December 1 and 2.
The programme of the concert includes works by Polish composers Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko, Henryk Wieniawski and Krzysztof Penderecki, as well as music by Ukrainian composers Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825) and Myroslav Skoryk (1938-2020).
The orchestra will be led by French conductor Remy Ballot.
A Vienna resident for the past two decades, Ballot regularly works with the city’s philharmonic orchestra and the famous Vienna Opera.
Young Polish virtuoso Wojciech Niedziółka will be the soloist in Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2.
Niedziółka was the best Polish participant at this year’s International Wieniawski Competition in Poznań, western Poland.
Ukraine's Slobozhansky Youth Academic Symphony Orchestra has been temporarily based in Poland since May, giving concerts and developing its skills under a programme sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, with support from the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.
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