In Absentia

We invite you to a con­cert by the duo Kwiatkows­ka x Pałosz, who will present a pro­gramme for vio­lin and cello.

Kwiatkows­ka x Pałosz are two musi­cians who feel and under­stand sounds and the world in their own indi­vid­ual ways. The artists have for many years been real­is­ing their dreams togeth­er, explor­ing the world of new and newest music.

They write about the In Absen­tia pro­gramme them­selves: “We chose pieces that speak of var­i­ous emo­tion­al states in a very beau­ti­ful, ten­der, at times shat­ter­ing way. In work­ing on them we were accom­pa­nied by equal­ly strong emo­tions, though of a dif­fer­ent kind. Search­ing, get­ting lost, moments of doubt and fatigue. The pro­gramme we will present at Hash­tag Lab emerged from a long process of matur­ing and search­ing. We first played Adieu m’amour by Spahlinger eight years ago — it was a beau­ti­ful and ter­ri­fy­ing expe­ri­ence. The nota­tion of Adieu is treach­er­ous; we had to keep sur­pass­ing our­selves anew. Since then we have per­formed this piece sev­er­al times, and each time it is for us an excep­tion­al expe­ri­ence of being in music togeth­er. Last year we came across Fozie Majd — an Iran­ian com­pos­er, eighty years old, cut off from the world, liv­ing in the moun­tains, writ­ing trance-like, obses­sive pieces inspired by Per­sian cul­ture. Mikołaj has just made the dis­cov­ery of a lit­tle-known, rarely per­formed yet fas­ci­nat­ing duo for vio­lin and cel­lo by Onute Narbu­taite, June 1981 — and we knew that a com­plete con­cert pro­gramme had been born.”

Pro­gramme:

Onute Narbu­taite — June Music (Move­ments: Sky, Sea, Rain, Night, Earth) (1981)

Fozie Majd Faraghi (In absen­tia; 2017)

Math­ias Spahlinger Adieu m‘amour (1982–1983)

Per­form­ers:

Ania Kwiatkows­ka vio­lin Mikołaj Pałosz cello

Pro­duc­tion:

Ania Kwiatkows­ka pro­gramme con­cept and text Lil­ian­na Krych, Daria Saw­czuk pro­duc­tion Alek­san­dra Ołdak visu­al iden­ti­ty Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw. The media patron of Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is POLMIC​.PL.

Tickets

40 PLN