MUSIC OF QUINCY JONES TO OPEN AND CLOSE SZCZECIN PHILHARMONIC 2018/2019 SEASON

Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra’s 2018/19 season will open and close with music from living legend of the music world, Quincy Jones.

2018 marks multiple important anniversaries: the Orchestra marks 70 years in the same year that mutual fans Quincy Jones and Krzysztof Penderecki celebrate their 85^th birthdays. To mark the occasion, the season opens on 19 October with a programme that includes the world premiere of Quincy Jones’s piece Cosmos written for the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and inspired by Penderecki.

​‘Even though we are the same age, he has been one of my biggest inspirations of all-time and it absolutely makes my soul smile to have been able to work on this piece. It was truly a full circle moment because I’ve looked up to him for many, many years, and having this opportunity was all of the inspiration I needed.’ Quincy Jones

This special inauguration to the season is bookended by a celebration of Quincy Jones’ ongoing global music impact in a concert on 27 May 2019 with Szczecin Philharmonic. Audiences can expect to be delighted by an orchestral programme that features arrangements of a wide range of Quincy’s musical life from big band to pop, Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson. They are joined by Jacob Collier, Alfredo Rodriguez and Eli Teplin — part of the new generation of artists that Quincy mentors and supports under the baton of Jules Buckley.

Both concerts are fitting tributes to the musical creativity and boundary-pushing curiosity of the Szczecin Philharmonic and Quincy Jones; we’re thrilled to be part of these anniversaries and the years to come.