During the summer, the musicians of the Kraków Philharmonic are not going to stay on Zwierzyniecka Street - they are going outside. Maybe they drew inspiration from Vienna, which had music played in court and municipal parks since the second half of the 18th century? This year's July instalment of the Philharmonic Music Summer chamber music series will feature classical ensembles (Antarja Quartet, Żeleński String Quartet) and more unusual ones - marimba with vibraphone and hang drum, the Sei Terre women’s vocal sextet, bagpipes and harp, brass quartet as well as wind quintet with a reader dudy szkockie z harfą, kwartet blaszany czy kwintet dęty i lektora (a must-hear version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf!). The concerts take place on Saturdays - in the gardens of the Austrian Consulate General (6.07, 13.07), then in the Palm House of the Jagiellonian University Botanical Garden until the end of the summer. Keep your concert tickets - you can tour the Garden on the same day!

6 July 2024, 7pm
Garden of the Consulate General of Austria
ANTARJA QUARTET:
Barbara Mglej – I violin
Maria Nowak – II violin
Magdalena Chmielowiec-Kozioł – viola
Martyna Sołtys – cello
Alexander Borodin String Quartet No. 2
Dana Wilson Hungarian Folk Songs
Astor Piazzolla Adios Nonino
Roberto di Marino Tango Trentino

13 July 2024, 6pm
Garden of the Consulate General of Austria
ŻELEŃSKI STRING QUARTET:
Jadwiga Bialic – violin
Katarzyna Jawor – violin
Anna Migdał-Chojecka – viola
Alicja Gach – cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine kleine nacht Musik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Rondo alla Turca
Antonín Dvořák – Humoreque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7
Johannes Brahms – Waltz, Op. 39 No. 15
Jules Massenet – Meditation
John Kander – New York, New York
Henry Mancini – Moon River
Andrew Lloyd Webber – All I Ask of You
Carlos Gardel – Por una cabeza
Scott Joplin – Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag
Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion, Libertango

20 July 2024, noon
Botanic Garden, Palm House
Tomasz Arnold – marimba
Rimba Duo: Aleksandra Wtorek, Karolina Tama – marimba, vibraphone
Maciej Hałoń – hang drum
Eric Sammut – Kameleon
Saúl Cosentino – La depre
Maciej Hałoń – Ad Astra
Keiko Abe – Wind in the Bamboo Grove
Emmanuel Séjourné – Calienta
Maciej Hałoń – Hang
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story, suite (arr. John Serry/Tomasz Arnold)
Ivan Trevino – Watercolor Sun

27 July 2024, noon
Botanic Garden, Palm House
SEI TERRE – female vocal sextet:
Katarzyna Guran
Joanna Stawarska
Anna Zawisza
Joanna Święszek-Przeliorz
Aleksandra Kalicka
Aleksandra Korzonek
Monika Płachta – piano
Grażyna Zubik – violin
Songs of Soul and Nature
Philip Glass – Metamorphosis I
Frank Ticheli – Earth Song
Morten Lauridsen – Dirait-on (words Rainer Maria Rilke)
Ola Gjeilo – Days of Beauty (words Emily Brontë)
Ola Gjeilo – The Rose (words Christina Rosetti)
Mikołaj Blajda – Improvisation No. 1 
Katarzyna Sałapa – Macierzanki (words Felicja Kruszewska)
Katarzyna Sałapa – Brzoskwinie (words Felicja Kruszewska)
Edward Elgar – Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
Eric Whitacre – Five Love Songs (words Hila Plitmann):

• Temuna
• Kala Kalla
• Larov
• Eyze Sheleg
• Rakut

3 August 2024, noon
Botanic Garden, Palm House
BRASS RIDERS:
Tomasz Stolarczyk – trombone
Andrzej Tkaczyk – trombone
Tomasz Gajewski – trombone
Jarosław Jastrzębski – tuba
World Film Music
Nino Rota – The Godfather / arr. T.Stolarczyk
John Barry –James Bond main theme / arr. B. Ryser
Carson Parks – Something Stupid / arr. T.Stolarczyk
Karel Svoboda – Maya the Honey Bee / arr. T.Stolarczyk
Hoyt Curtin – The Flinstones / arr. T.Stolarczyk
Hoyt Curtin – Smurfs / arr. T.Stolarczyk
John Powell – How to Train Your Dragon / arr. T.Stolarczyk
Lalo Schifrin – Mission Impossible / arr. T.Stolarczyk
Howard Shore – The Lord of the Rings / arr. T.Stolarczyk
Henry Mancini – The Pink Panther / arr. J. Krush
Klaus Badelt – Pirates of the Caribbean / arr. T.Stolarczyk
Ennio Morricone – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / arr. T.Stolarczyk

10 August 2024, noon
Botanic Garden, Palm House
Gabriela Prokocka-Danial – violin
Aleksandra Kmiotek – violin
Marek Ulański – viola
Dominika Szczypka – cello
Sylwia Buchalska-Augustyn – vocal
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimento in D major K. 136
Claude Debussy – Clair de lune
Antonio Vivaldi – Four Seasons “Summer”
Etta James, mus. Harry Warren, arr. Alex Phillips-Yates – At Last
Elvis Presley, H. Peretti, L. Creatore, G.D. Weiss – Can’t Help Falling in Love
Frank Sinatra, mus. B. Howard, arr. L.M. Lacanski – Fly Me to the Moon
Astor Piazzolla – Libertango
Henry Mancini, arr. Andrea Motas – Moon River
Harold Arlen, arr. Benedikt Brydern – Over the Rainbow
Cesaria Evora, mus. Carlos Almaran, arr. Bojana Jovanovic – Historia de amor
Astor Piazolla – Oblivion
Irving Berlin, arr. Bjorn Kleiman – Cheek to Cheek

17 August 2024, noon
Botanic Garden, Palm House
Irena Czubek-Davidson – harp
Lindsay Davidson – smallpipes, bagpipes
Paweł Wójtowicz – violin
Anna Wójtowicz – violin
Piotr Augustyn – viola
Krzysztof Wójtowicz – cello
Duszan Korczakowski – double bass
Lindsay Davidson – works for bagpipes, harp and string quintet:

• Suite Concertante
• Na Bodega
• Duncan Howie's
• Kawai Set
• Eightsome Reels
• Double Concerto Harp and Pipes
• Werewolf of Tulsa

24 August 2024, noon
Botanic Garden, Palm House
Natalia Jarząbek – flute
Paweł Nyklewicz – oboe
Michał Poniżnik – clarinet
Wojciech Turek – bassoon
Marek Gumiela – horn
Piotr Krasnowolski – word
Gioachino Rossini – The Barber of Seville (overture)
Denes Agay – 5 Easy Dances
Siergiej Prokofiew – Piotruś and Wolf (arr. for wind quintet and a reader J. Linckelmann)
Astor Piazzolla – Libertango

31 August 2024, noon
Botanic Garden, Palm House
Magdalena Di Blasi – flute
Michał Poniżnik – bass clarinet
Marek Gumiela – horn
Marta Czepielowska – viola
Błażej Michna – viola
Marta Nagawiecka – cello
1980’s and 1990’s TV Music
arr. Błażej Michna