Now in its 15th year, the Chopin and His Europe festival showcases Chopin’s music in a broad European context. It also promotes other Polish composers whose music is deemed as deserving a wider exposure.
In an interview with Radio Poland, Piotr Wojciechowski, press spokesman for the Warsaw-based National Chopin Institute, says this year’s festival devotes a great deal of attention to the father of Polish national opera, Stanisław Moniuszko, who was born 200 years ago, and to Polish-Japanese musical links 100 years since the two countries established political relations.