Tender Strings | Presidential Concert

The annual January concert to which we invite you together with the President of Szczecin has already become a tradition. This year, during the presidential concert at the Philharmonic in Szczecin, "Tender Strings" will be heard. The project, which had its concert premiere in the golden hall, won the recognition of critics and music lovers, undoubtedly becoming one of the most important and most extraordinary artistic events of the last year.

The "Tender Strings" project is a collection of Fryderyk Chopin's works selected by Natalia Kukulska in consultation with the best Polish arrangers. They became the material of new studies. The resulting versions are symphonic works with a complex character in terms of the means and instrumentation used. But that's not all. The compositions also received completely new text layers. Natalia Kukulska and the acclaimed authors Kayah, Mela Koteluk, Gaba Kulka, Natalia Grosiak and Bovska are responsible for the lyrical side of the works. Each of the five arrangers developed two pieces – we are talking about outstanding personalities: Adam Sztaba, Krzysztof Herdzin, Nikola Kołodziejczyk, Paweł Tomaszewski and Jan Smoczyński.

As the Artist herself says: We touch the music of Fryderyk Chopin. Incredibly artful and monumental music. It certainly takes courage, but if you put your whole heart and professionalism into music and meet people with such sensitivity and talents as my guests, it can result in something beautiful, new, and at the same time reminding us about the size of the original.

For decades, the works of Fryderyk Chopin have been elaborated by artists of all musical genres, starting with the classics, through jazz, and ending with pop music. It is so because Chopin, in his work, expresses most profoundly what is Polish and uses an excellent musical language, which is still close to people all over the world today.