From 3rd to 6th June, Krzysztof Penderecki will be the guest of honour of the Polish Consulate in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Together with the Kharkiv Philharmonic, the Consulate prepared a gala concert built of maestro Penderecki’s works. This is the first visit of the composer to Kharkiv. Besides the concert, in which he will conduct the performance of one of the pieces, he will meet the students of the Kharkiv Conservatory, and lay flowers before the monument to Polish officers – victims of the Katyń Crime in the Cemetery of Victims to Totalitarianism in Kharkiv–Piatykhatky.