We have the pleasure to welcome you at one of the concerts organised as part of the first tour of the PROBALTICA Festival around the Baltic countries. The tour is to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the artistic career of the chamber ensemble MultiCamerata. The great concert tour of all Baltic countries was inaugurated on October 14, 2001 in Toruń, which is the home of the ensemble MultiCamerata and the PROBALTICA Festival. The tour is organised under the auspices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and the Mayor of the City of Toruń. This venture is also possible thanks to the co-operation of the Polish embassies, Polish Culture Institutes and other cultural institutions as well as artists from the Baltic countries. In order to highlight the co-operation of various groups from the Baltic countries the MultiCamerata will always perform with an ensemble or a soloist from the country of the concert venue playing both music composed in Poland and other Baltic countries. The tour also wishes to inaugurate yearly concerts and exhibitions to be held as part of the PROBALTICA in 10 Baltic countries.
 The ensemble MultiCamerata started its official career in 1991 with a cycle called the „Sunday Palace Concerts" held in the newly restored Dąmbski Palace in Toruń. Since then the ensemble has given over 400 concerts both in Poland and abroad. In Poland we have performed at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the National Philharmonic, the Adam Mickiewicz Hall and the Grand Theatre in Poznań, the Pomeranian Princes’s Castle in Szczecin and many other places. The MultiCamerata has also given concerts in many cities in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Holland, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Great Britain and the Vatican.
  In 1993, in order to pay tribute to Toruń’s most prominent citizen, Nicholas Copernicus and to commemorate the 520th anniversary of his birth, the 450th anniversary of his death and the publication of the first edition of „De Revolutionibus", the MultiCamerata organised a great concert tour called „Hommage ŕ Copernic" around the places where the great astronomer had lived in Italy and Poland.
 The MultiCamerata co-operates on a regular basis with the French group OPUS 16 and the Swedish Gotlands Blasarkvintet. Our ensemble has already recorded six CDs and has made numerous TV and radio recordings.
 In 1999, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frederic Chopin’s death, the MultiCamerata has organised a European concert tour around France, Spain, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Together with pianists from the visited countries, our ensemble performed the great composer’s compositions.
 The MultiCamerata is the founder and organiser of the PROBALTICA Music and Art Festival of the Baltic Countries. The main aim of the festival is to initiate co-operation, especially in the field of music and fine arts, as well as to present the cultural heritage of all the 10 participating Baltic countries. The encounter with the culture of these neighbouring and yet unknown countries will hopefully lead to a better understanding and co-operation in the integrating Europe. Since 1994 eminent soloists, chamber ensembles, choirs, symphony orchestras and artists from 10 Baltic countries have tried to create a universal language of artistic expression which transcends borders and language differences. The concerts have been held in Toruń, which is the main venue of the festival but also in Grudziądz, Gdańsk and Warsaw,
 During the eight editions of the festival we have had the pleasure to welcome over 2,500 artists, including nearly 100 professional groups, choirs and orchestras. The PROBALTICA has also welcomed outstanding composers of contemporary music, e.g. Bronius Kutavicius from Lithuania, Kalevi Aho from Finland, Andrzej Koszewski from Poland and Krzysztof Penderecki, who is a regular guest of the festival.
 The PROBALTICA Festival is organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and the Ambassadors of the Baltic Countries in Poland as well as the Ambassador of the European Union.
 
 

Multicamerata
tournee PROBALTICA '01 | concerts of tournee:  | Helsinki 31 Oct.   | Copenhagen 3 Dec.

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