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The Hashtag Ensemble's first year of repertoire activities on its own stage at the Hashtag Lab Social Cultural Institution will culminate in a concert titled "Genre Roulette" on the 7^th of December, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. It is also the conclusion of Matthew Shlomowitz's composer residency with the Hashtag Ensemble, so the ensemble will premiere a new arrangement of his composition Glücklich, Glücklich, Freude, Freude that evening, together with soloist Mark Knoop, a recognized British pianist. The concert is part of cooperation with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Since its inception, Hashtag Lab has been an open stage, offering artistic interpretations of various genres at the highest level, presenting programmes without repertoire compromises - "Genre Roulette."

Ticket information: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/genre-roulette/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 7^th of December 2023 at 7 p.m. the Lutosławski Quartet will premiere three quartets at the NFM!

The first of them will be the presentation of the youthful String Quartet No. 1 "A song for string quartet" by Hanna Kulenty, which this world-famous composer decided to make available to performers forty years after it was written. The second one is the 3^rd String Quartet "Screaming Into The Void", composed by Don Davis especially for the Wrocław ensemble, and in the finale we will hear the world premiere of the 6^th String Quartet by Marcin Markowicz, second violinist of the Lutosławski Quartet.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10237 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Two great artists from the Polish school of composition wrote chamber music with passion. The 3^rd String Quartets by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki, who would celebrate their 90^th birthday in 2023, will be presented at NOSPR on the 7^th of December at 19.30 by Beata Orzutek (violin), Aleksander Daszkiewicz (violin), Martyna Dziechciarz (viola) and Natalia Kurzac-Kotula (cello).

Vladimir Khlebnikov's quatrain ending with the words "When people die - they sing songs" became the motto of Górecki's Third Quartet "...songs sing", directing attention to ultimate matters. After the premiere of the work, Bohdan Pociej in "Tygodnik Powszechny" called it a "Quartet of mourning songs".

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/gorecki-and-penderecki 

On the 5^th of December, 2023, the New Music Center and the Laboratory of Anthropology of Musical Culture of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (head: Dr. Leszek Lorent) are organizing a conference, exhibition and concert at the University dedicated to the work of Albert Ginastera on the 40^th anniversary of his death.

During the concert at 8 p.m., Ginastera's monumental work Cantata para America magica for percussion orchestra, 2 pianos, celesta and dramatic soprano solo (Diana Gemborys) to the words of pre-Columbian texts in Nahuatl will be performed in the concert hall of the FCUM.

World premiere of Krzysztof Kicior's work ... so to speak for drums and live electronics will also take place.

All events are held under the patronage of the Embassy of Argentina in Warsaw.

Details: https://chopin.edu.pl/szczegoly-wydarzenia/950_konferencja-naukowa-alberto-ginastera-40-rocznica-smierci 

On the 30^th of November, in Poznań, at the age of 77, Dr. Barbara Zakrzewska passed away. She was a composer, music librarian, musicologist, doctor of humanities in the field of history (she obtained her doctoral degree after defending a thesis written under the supervision of Prof. Z. Grot), scholarship holder of foreign studies and research programmes, long-time Polish activist in the USA, author of 65 compositions, over 80 publications, including eight books, privately the eldest daughter of the late Prof. Zbigniew Zakrzewski (an outstanding economist and author of books about Poznań).

Funeral of the late Dr. Barbara Zakrzewska will take place on the 11^th of December at 11.50 at the Junikowo Cemetery in Poznań. Holy Mass will be held on the same day, at 2.00 p.m. in the church of Jan Kanty at Grunwald in Poznań.

May she rest in peace.