In recent years, Polish conductor Joanna Natalia Ślusarczyk’s career has merited close attention. In 2019, as proof of her very special qualities, she was chosen for the Mentoring Programme with composer Peter Eötvös. For this concert, in addition to more familiar pieces by Saint-Saëns, Debussy and Borodin, she will introduce works by one of her most notable contemporaries, the Overture for Orchestra by Grazyna Bacewicz, written in 1943 during the German occupation of Poland.