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The International Opera Awards Gala - a great international celebration of opera - will be held in 2023 at the Grand Theater - National Opera. On this stage on the 9^th of November at 7 p.m. the "Opera Oscars" will be awarded, great and future stars, the most outstanding artists and leading critics will meet.

The prestigious International Opera Awards have been awarded since 2012 by the most important opera magazine in the world, "Opera". The winners will be awarded in 19 categories: the total prizes and scholarships will amount to over GBP 500,000.

Ticket information: https://teatrwielki.pl/repertuar/kalendarium/2023-2024/international-opera-awards-gala-wreczenia-nagrod/ 

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During a concert at NOSPR with an intriguing title "Music that satisfies. The Food of Love and Moz-ART" on the 9^th of November, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., works by Andrzej Dziadek and Adrian Robak will be premiered.

Katowice and Upper Silesia became an important composers' center in the second half of the 20^th entury. Prof Andrzej Dziadek, currently professor of composition at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, comes from the Music Academy in Katowice. During the November concert, his latest Sonata for cello and piano will be performed for the first time.

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The curator of the third part of the 1^st Warsaw Experiment Studio is Anna Jędrzejewska, who invited Sofia Borges and Katarzyna Markowska to cooperate and experiment. We will learn about their approach to improvisation at Hashtag Lab on the 8^th of November, 2023 at 7.30 p.m.

Jak podkreśla Anna Jędrzejewska, "Jako kuratorka chcę zapraszać artystki zainteresowane demontowaniem wizji muzyki absolutnej, co rozumiem jako poszukiwanie otwartego paradygmatu wartości. Teorie dotyczące procesu tworzenia się wiązań, teoria aktora-sieci Latoura, rezonują z formułą performatywną, techniką improwizacji i przetwarzaniem elektronicznym dźwięku".

In the "Pulse of Life" project, the artists are located at two symmetrical ends of the room with the figure of the performer in the center. The process of obtaining sounds from movement action and improvisation based on this pattern are the main axis of the new interdisciplinary work.

Project website: www.wse.mozg.pl 

The Silesian Tribune of Composers 2023 Festival, organized by the Katowice branch of the Polish Composers' Union, will take place from the 8^th of November to the 8^th of December. Four concerts and ten premieres of works by Polish artists will take place at the Academy of Music in Katowice.

The festival will open with a concert of octophonic electronic music, during which Freescape by Krzysztof Gawlas, Sensory Etude No. 5 by Tomasz Bauć, AARS (Alternative Acoustic Reality Showroom) by Stanisław Leśniewski and Gębowzory by Kamil Pędziwiatr will be performed for the first time in Poland.

The pianist Gabriela Szendzielorz-Jungiewicz, who will premiere Bartosz Witkowski's ...sea has... and Kamil Polak's Purity of Landscape, and the cellist Piotr Gach, who will present Wojciech Michno's Suite of Autumn Reflections for the first time, were invited to participate in a double recital on the 16^th of November.

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The International Polish Music Competition has only had three editions, but it is slowly gaining the status of one of the largest events of this type in the country. Reverie Piano Duo - winners of the 3^rd edition - will perform at NOSPR on the 7^th of November, 2023 at 7.30 p.m.

Silver medalists of the music games in the chamber ensemble category will come to NOSPR. Rozalia Kierc and Maria Moliszewska have been creating Reverie Piano Duo since 2020. The ensemble initially studied with Stefan Wojtas, and currently cooperates with Bartłomiej Wezner at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. In search of an original artistic vision, the pianists passionately explore unconventional repertoire for two pianos and four hands. They delighted the audience, the jury and the Competition commentators with their sensitivity, natural playing, almost jazz-like swing and a mischievous twinkle in their eyes.