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Festival of Science Day in Wrocław

The rectors of Wrocław and Opole universities invite you to the Festival of Science in Wrocław!

The main celebrations of the Festival of Science in Wrocław will begin on Friday, 14 November, at 4 p.m. in the Aula Leopoldina. During the ceremony, the presentation of the KRUWiO Award and the Mayor of Wrocław’s doctoral scholarships is planned. The following day, 15 November, a KRUWiO delegation will lay flowers at the Monument to the Martyrology of Lviv Professors and at the plaques commemorating the Kraków professors imprisoned in Wrocław in 1939.

Earlier, on Wednesday, 12 November, a special concert will be held to mark the Festival of Science in Wrocław, jointly hosted by the Mayor of Wrocław and the rectors of the universities of Wrocław and Opole. It will take place in the Main Hall of the National Forum of Music named after Witold Lutosławski in Wrocław, beginning at 7 p.m.

Programme

• Andrzej Panufnik – Bassoon Concerto for bassoon and chamber orchestra
• Wojciech Kilar – Krzesany, symphonic poem
• Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

Performers

• Katarzyna Zdybel-Nam – bassoon
• Omar Abdel Fattah – muezzin
• Paweł Szlachta – countertenor
• Mieczysław Gawroński – conductor
• Artur Wróbel – conductor

With soloists from the NFM Boys’ Choir, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, and combined academic choirs of Wrocław.

More information and a link to the broadcast can be found on the KRUWiO website.