Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, who adore communing with Art!
Dear artistically talented Youth!

I cordially invite you to participate in the first GRZEGORZ OLKIEWICZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL which will take place from 6 to 13 August 2023 in the picturesque towns of  Pielgrzymowice, Pawłowice and Pszczyna in Upper Silesia, POLAND
Beautiful concerts, a vernissage and an exhibition of the outstanding Polish Painter EDWARD KOSTKA, lessons with Masters of playing the flute, violin, cello, double bass, piano and organ, instrumental theatre, chamber music classes, making music together in the orchestra of Participants and Teachers and evening meetings over dinner or bonfire in the company of outstanding Artists from Poland, France, the Czech Republic, the USA, China and Turkey, whom we invited to participate in this year's event, unique in its diversity, and the Patronage of the Great Artist and Extraordinary Human  who was an outstanding Polish flute virtuoso, an excellent teacher and conductor, as well as the Author of many arrangements of pieces for flute for PWM Edition – GRZEGORZ OLKIEWICZ (born in 1959 in Katowice, died in 2021 in Wrocław) will make the last days of August leave a lasting mark in Your hearts, and I am convinced that you will miss it until the next meeting in August 2024. The program of the Festival is extremely rich in musical events that you will not find at other festivals and music courses throughout Europe. There is no exaggeration in this.
I cordially invite you!
Come, it is going to be fantastic!!!

Irena Olkiewicz
President of the Polish Society of the Double Bassists
Artistic Director of the Grzegorz Olkiewicz International Music Festival