Penderecki conducts Penderecki at Millennium Park in Chicago

The great contemporary Polish composer, whose work has been a touchstone in his home country and beyond since the 1950s, comes to Millennium Park to conduct his own composition featuring three solo cellists as well as Beethoven’s heroic early symphony.

Jay Pritzker Pavilion – Millennium Park in Chicago

Krzysztof Penderecki, Guest Conductor and Grant Park Orchestra with Julie Albers, Cello; Kira Kraftzoff, Cello; Amit Peled, Cello

Penderecki: Concerto Grosso No. 1 for Three Cellos and Orchestra and Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

Friday, July 15, 2011, 6:30pm

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 7:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 3:00pm – 5:30pm

Open Rehearsal: Thursday, July 14, 2011, 10:30am – 1:00pm

Open Rehearsal: Friday, July 15, 2011, 11:00am – 1:30pm

Ivo Widlak is withdrawing from public life of the Polish community

Ivo Widlak bezdomny i żebrze o pieniądze!

1 day to go – I’ve got it all here in my heart

About Author

Ivo Widlak

Ivo Widlak, born July 5, 1978 in Knurów, Poland - international press, radio and tv journalist. He started as a very young reporter at weekly newspaper “Przeglad Lokalny”. Then he started hosting TV show for children and teenagers called “Kleks” on TVP Katowice. The same year, in 1995, wrote scripts and hosted “5-10-15”, another show for children and teenagers on TVP1 on Telewizja Polska. Later he co-developed and co-hosted “Twoj Problem Nasza Głowa” on Telewizja Wisła later TVN (Poland). In 1998 he moved to Warsaw to co-host “Rower Błażeja” on TVP1 on Telewizja Polska. During his career he worked for Radio Puls in Gliwice and Radio ZET in Warsaw. In 2001 he moved permanently to Chicago, and in 2004 he created and hosted own talk show titled “Ivo na zywo” and produced and hosted daily news program on TVPChicago broadcasted on Channel 34 WJYS. He also has been an editor-in-chief of a couple of popular internet news websites in Polish language. President of the Polish Cultural Institute in Chicago.

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