Full Pass: 26.06-05.07.2026 – 29th Chamber Music Festival EVENINGS IN THE ARSENAL by Jan Staniendy

Early summer is the perfect time for open-air concerts. For the twenty-ninth time, we are delighted to invite you to the next Chamber Music Festival "Evenings in the Arsenal" by Jan Staniendy. As every year at the turn of June and July, amid greenery and birdsong, on the beautiful courtyard of the historic Wrocław Arsenal, chamber music in various styles and from different eras will resound, performed by outstanding soloists accompanied by the Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra.

This year the festival runs from June 26 to July 5 and includes eight concerts. We have a rich, diverse programme featuring music from the Baroque to the most contemporary, and alongside classical concerts, symphonies, serenades and quartets, there will also be songs and jazz standards performed by star artists.

The Festival's inaugural concert with the Wratislavia Orchestra takes place on Friday, June 26. The programme features 4 serenades: Mozart's (the famous "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"), Tchaikovsky's, Suk's and Barber's. The combination of serenades with open-air music-making is the quintessence of the festival, merging the original origins of the genre with the space of the Arsenal courtyard.

The soloist of the next orchestral concert (Friday, July 3) will be David Khrikuli (Georgia), finalist of the XIX International Chopin Piano Competition in 2025 – he will perform the solo part in Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto in F minor op. 21 (version for piano and string orchestra). Additionally, the programme will feature works exclusively by Polish composers (including: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Mikołaj Piotr Górecki), including the world premiere of a work commissioned by the Festival – "Serenata disinvolta" for string orchestra by Ignacy Zalewski.

During the Festival's final concert (Sunday, July 5), the Wratislavia Orchestra will present a programme beloved by audiences, composed of Baroque works: concertos by Vivaldi, Bach and Telemann performed by soloists of the Wratislavia Orchestra.