For over seventy years Henryk Wieniawski has lent his name to international violin competitions. The year 2011 will see the fourteenth edition of the event held in Poznan.

Expected to turn up are young virtuosos of a new generation, ones already brought up in the globalized world: oftentimes born in one country, living in still another, and daily exposed to the influence of varied cultures. What unites them, however, is music, and, as always, the urge to challenge their peers’ talents, technical skills and artistic imagination. For the venue of this confrontation they chose Poznan–the town that can boast the oldest violin competition in the world.

And although in its fourteenth edition we would like to meet the programme expectations of the candidates and – an extremely important element of the whole undertaking – the competition audiences, not even for a brief moment have we forgotten that the reputation of the Wieniawski competition lies in its history, of which the laureates and jury members constitute a significant part.

International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition is a founder-member of the Committee of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

Agata Szymczewska, winner of the Competition in 2006, partner to Krystian Zimerman in Grażyna Bacewicz’ Quintets recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon, as well as two-time winner of the "Fryderyk" Prize, is going to open the 14th edition of Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. She will play the Violin Concerto No. 2 Op. 61 by Karol Szymanowski; the soloist will be accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Pablo Gonzales who is associated with the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra. Furthermore, the concert will feature such masterpieces, as Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy, and Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64 by Tchaikovsky.

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