Bank Millennium becomes Main Sponsor of Gdańsk Music Festival

We have been a sponsor of cultural events for more than 25 years. What makes this particular event unique is first of all the quality, which has been high ever since its first edition. This is why the list of sponsors could not but include Bank Millennium – a bank particularly committed to supporting good cultural events. The power of this project is its diversity, not only in terms of repertoire but also the locations of the encounters with classical music. In this way the audience are in for a very special aesthetic experience - Iwona Jarzębska, Director of the Public Relations Department in Bank Millennium said.

From the very outset Gdańsk Music Festival has been focused on diversity. On the one hand presenting world class artists; on the other hand promoting talented young people who have the opportunity to appear alongside them. It is similar with the repertoire. Recognised and popular masterpieces of world musical literature are presented beside forgotten though magnificent pieces of early music or latest proposals from modern composers, often being performed for the first time ever - Konrad Mielnik, Director of Festival said.

Gdańsk Music Festival has been taking place since 2008. The formula of the Festival is open and shaped with every new edition by the personality and charisma of the Resident Artist – a person setting the artistic standard of the festival. In 2016 this function is being performed by Maxim Vengerov – an eminent violinist, conductor and teacher who will deliver a mastery course in Gdańsk and will add glory to the Final Gala by giving a concert of music by Henryk Wieniawski and Karol Szymanowski. The stars of the festival include Georgijs Osokins – pianist and finalist of last year’s International F. Chopin Competition in Warsaw; Nelson Goerner – pianist and juror of the Chopin competition; Paul Esswood – English conductor and countertenor, specialist in early music; or Agnieszka Duczmal’s renowned AMADEUS Orchestra.

During the Festival above all music by Polish composers will be presented, with the lead motif being “Polish Concerto” while concerts will particularly focus on string instruments in all configurations.

The Inaugurating Concert of the Festival, with performance by Nelson Goerner and the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Wojciech Rajski, also sponsored by Bank Millennium, will be held on 9 April in the Concert Hall of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk.