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Family concert ‘Music of Mr. Szymanowski’ at NOSPR on the 8^th of October, 2023 at 16.00 is a kind of afterparty - right after the Karol Szymanowski Competition - based on stories about his patron, around the memories of his friends and family. A musical story about Karol Szymanowski for the youngest will be performed by Sławomira Wilga and Tymoteusz Bies.

Children will hear fascinating music, which is attracting more and more attention and admiration all over the world, in the interpretations of the winners of the first prizes of the 1st Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition in Katowice.

Additional information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/koncert-familijny 

The AUKSO Orchestra invites you to its next Auksodrone Festival: on October 6–8, 2023, Tychy will host concerts and world premieres, events as part of the JAZZ+ and AD LIBITUM series, as well as a DJ set and meetings with artists.

The concert on the 7^th of October will be devoted to the work of Zygmunt Krauze, who celebrates his 85^th birthday this year. The programme includes, among others: solo piano works performed by the composer, as well as chamber and orchestral pieces with the participation of musicians of the AUKSO orchestra.

The co-organizers of auxodrone are Programme 2 of the Polish Radio and the Polish Music Publishing House. The curator of the festival is Filip Berkowicz.

More at: www.auksodrone.com 

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As part of the project of Dr. Aleeksandra Hałat, lecturer at the University of Silesia, ‘American Dream - Polish artists overseas’, five concerts will be held in Poland from the 6^th of October to the 2^nd of December, 2023.

The project aims to promote little-known works by Polish immigrant composers who composed in the United States in the 20^th century, such as Karol Rathaus, Michał Kondracki, Feliks Łabuński, Tadeusz Kassern. During the concerts, works by Jerzy Fitelberg, unknown in Poland, will also be presented, which Aleksandra Hałat obtained during a library search as part of the NIMiT 2023 scholarship. The manuscripts of these works for violin and piano and for voice and piano are not available in any of the Polish libraries.

Concerts with the participation of Roksana Wardenga, Piotr Lato, Marcin Hałat and Aleksandra Hałat will take place in the Palace Complex in Koszęcin, the Palace in Rybna, the Castle Museum in Pszczyna, the ‘Galicja’ Jewish Museum in Krakow and the Town Hall in Nowy Sącz.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Grand Theater in Poznań returns to its premises after over two years of stage modernization. The new 2023/2024 season will open not with just one performance, but with a festival under the patronage of Stanisław Moniuszko.

The 1st Moniuszko Festival, which will take place on October 6-19, 2023, is a new proposition for opera lovers. The first edition of the Festival refers not only to the patron of the Pegasus Building, but also to the history of the stage where national operas were performed at important moments.

The first edition of the Moniuszko Festival will undoubtedly be diverse.

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On the 6^th of October, 2023 at 7.00 p.m. Symphony Orchestra of Zielona Góra Philharmonic conducted by Piotr Mazurek will perform together with trumpet soloists Jacques Kuba Séguin - a Polish-Canadian musician and radio presenter - and Paweł Hulisz, who will play the natural trumpet.

We will hear the Overture to opera L'isola disabitata and Concerto in E flat major for trumpet by Joseph Haydn, the Little Suite by Witold Lutosławski and Parfum No. 3 by Sėguin himself. The trumpeter received ‘Jazz Discovery of the Year’ award in the 2012/2013 Canadian Radio and Television season. In his songs, he intertwines inspirations with European jazz, classical music and world music; he also cooperates with the film industry.