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The Polish Society of Contemporary Music invites children aged 3-8 with their parents to free improvisation workshops ‘Tell me a fairy tale’, which will take place on Saturday, the 23^rd of September, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. at the Local Activity Place in Włochy.

During the classes you will be able to learn more about contemporary music and hear, among others: what an octopus on a walk, frogs in a pond or tools in a workshop sound like. The workshops will be led by improvisers: multi-instrumentalist and composer Bartosz Smorągiewicz, double bassist Małgorzata Kołcz and composer and pianist Jarosław Siwiński.

Classes last approximately 90 minutes with a short break.

Participation in the workshops is free of charge - the number of places is limited, so prior registration of participants is required. Applications are accepted in two ways:

• via application form: https://forms.gle/rK4w6gnUiU5WX3Tz7 
• by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Details: www.ptmw.art.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Works by Baird, Kisielewski, Cynk, Mozart and Reinecke will inaugurate the 68^th artistic season of Tadeusz Baird Zielona Góra Philharmonic on the 23^rd of September, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. Szymon Mechliński and Joel van Lerber will perform together with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafał Kłoczko.

After the Little Overture by Stefan Kisielewski, Four Love Sonnets to the words of W. Shakespeare will be played - one of the most famous works by the patron of the Zielona Góra Philharmonic. During this year's inauguration, Szymon Mechliński will interpret Baird's masterpiece. He will also premiere Love Sonnets by Magdalena Cynk, commissioned especially for this occasion. In her work, Cynk refers to Baird's compositions and thus pays tribute to him: she uses Shakespearean texts translated by Maciej Słomczyński and uses them in an identical composition to Baird's.

Autumn in Cracow will resound with the sounds of experimental music, as every year! The 21^st Sacrum Profanum will take place on September 23–24 and November 9–12, 2023. The theme of this year's edition will be ‘Multiverse’.

Contemporary music is a heterogeneous field that constantly offers new aesthetic and conceptual spaces. The three main concerts of the festival will create appropriate connections between contemporary music and broadly understood alternative music.

This year, you will be able to immerse yourself endlessly in the minimalist music of Aleksandra Słyż, in a new composition written for Sinfonietta Cracovia. The orchestra will also perform works by the prominent Lithuanian composer Justė Janulytė and the first Polish minimalist Tomasz Sikorski (the 12^th of November this year is the 35^th anniversary of his death).

On the 21^st of September, composer, music theoretician and conductor Henryk Czyżewski, an ordinary member of the Polish Composers' Union since 1974, died in Lublin at the age of 86...

Henryk Czyżewski was a co-founder of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers’ Union; he also belonged to the Polish Society of Contemporary Music.

As a conductor, he led choirs in musical institutions and universities in the Tricity (PWSM, Medical Academy, University of Gdańsk, State Opera and Baltic Philharmonic, Musical Theater in Gdynia). He performed with the choir of the University of Gdańsk, of which he was the founder, for 13 years, winning a number of awards in Western Europe. He led the Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Municipal Cultural Center in Gdańsk (1971-72). He performed approximately 600 concerts in over 20 countries around the world.

12^th International Festival ‘Andrzej Nikodemowicz time and sound’, organized by the Henryk Wieniawski Music Society in Lublin, will take place on September 22 - October 22, 2023. During ten concerts, Polish music will be presented by recognized performers from Poland and abroad.

The opening and final concerts will take place at the Lublin Philharmonic. During the inauguration, the Lublin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, violinist Dominika Falger and pianist Piotr Sałajczyk, conducted by Daniel Mieczkowski, will perform. The festival will close with a concert of pianists Beata Bilińska and Filip Wojciechowski.

Chamber concerts will take place at the Crown Tribunal, Tadeusz Szeligowski Primary and Secondary Music Schools and the Karol Lipiński General Primary and Secondary Music School. Admission to the chamber concerts is free.

The Festival programme includes piano recitals by Anna Górecka and Piotr Banasik, a vocal recital by Ewa Biegas, a chamber concert on the occasion of the International Music Day, and a chamber concert by the Glière Quartet in Vienna. The concert on the 24^th of September with the participation of Cracow Duo - Kalinowski & Szlezer will also be dedicated to the 80^th anniversary of Krzysztof Meyer's birth.