Silesian Guitar Octet
Silesian Guitar Octet is the only performing octet in the world that has a stable structure. The Octet consists of professors, graduates, and students of Musical Academy in Katowice, Poland. The octet. The musical group was created in 2001 by Franciszek Wieczorek. In the beginning, there was an idea to put together as many guitars as possible and at the same time not to create a guitar orchestra. Originally, each of the guitarists should have his or her own part. Later on, the number of guitarists has become eight. The group received first prize at the international  festival INTER ARTIA (Greece) 2008. The Silesian Guitar Octet has recorded for BBC WORLDS television and Polish Radio. The first album of the group, entitled "OCT.OPUS", was nominated to win the Polish music award FRYDERYKI in 2009. The second album of the group, "The XXth Century", was released in January 2011. The Silesian Guitar Octet has appeared in numerous concerts in Poland as well as in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Austria, Greece, Italy and in the UK. Repertoire. There are very few pieces which are originally written for an octet. Because of this, Franciszek Wieczorek has had  to carry out the transcription of many beautiful pearls for the orchestra music. The group's core repertoire consists of works by J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, P.I. Tchaikovsky, E. Grieg, M. Ravel, J. Turina, G. Gershwin, A. Khachaturian, L. Bernstein, L. Brouwer, R. Dyens and many others.