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The International Festival of Contemporary Music and Visual Arts ‘Mózg Festival’ is a meeting of artists from all over the world creating in all areas of contemporary music, performance art, audio and video installations in which music plays an important role. This year's edition will take place on September 7-9, 2023 and is titled ‘Do not forget to keep your mind clear’. Free entrance!

The programme includes concerts by composer Piotr Peszat, pianist and composer Barbara Drążkowska Drazkov, improvisations by composers and instrumentalists Reinhold Friedel and Frank Gratkowski, Folded Maps of Time (FoMaTi) - an immersive audiovisual installation by Marek Chołoniewski, Chris Cutler and Piotr Madej, and a performance by composer Anna Jędrzejewska HYBRID for rapper , 4 performers and visualizations to D'Chaos' libretto, performed by artists of the Sztuka Ciała Foundation.

Festival website: https://festiwal.mozg.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Association of Young Artists of the Wejherowo Region and Art'n'Voices VocalEnsemble invite you to Wejherowo for the 3^rd edition of the music festival ArteFonie – ‘The ObservARTory’, which will take place from the 7^th to the 10^th of September 2023.

ArteFonie is a musical stop on the map of northern Poland. Its idea is to present a widespectrum of classical music, with a particular focus on new trends in this genre. This year's edition is titled ‘The ObservARTory’. The space of ArteFonie will become an observatory - a place where you will be able to see new, extraordinary phenomena on the canvas of contemporary art.

The festival will open on the 7^th of September with a concert by the group Kropki, performing alternative music. The artists will present an original blend of classical sounds based on acombination of piano and double bass with electronic accompaniment.

Detailed information available on the websites: www.artnvoices.art/festiwal-artefonie/, www.facebook.com/ArteFonie-103594345267981. 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

During the 58^th Wratislavia Cantans International Festival on September 7-17, 2023, oratorio and cantata music will be heard in the acoustically excellent halls of the National Forum of Music and in four cities of Lower Silesia. The title of this year's edition – ‘Mother Nature’ - was inspired by Haydn's Seasons.

During the inaugural concert, the Wrocław Philharmonic, the Polish National Youth Choir and soloists (soprano Iwona Hossa, tenor Paweł Skłuba and bass Jerzy Butryn) will perform Krzysztof Penderecki's Cosmogony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.

There will also be performances by Andreas Scholl, Tõnu Kaljuste from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Wayne Marshall, Alicia Amo and Musica Boscareccia, Accademia del Piacere, Giovanni Antonini from Il Giardino Armonico, European Union Baroque Orchestra, as well as NFM ensembles: Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, NFM Choir, NFM Boys Choir and NFM Girls Choir.

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/festiwale/wratislavia-cantans 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the occasion of the opening of the International Conference of Orchestras organized by the NFM, the multimedia performance Projection by Paweł Mykietyn will be presented in an extended version on the 6^th of September, 2023 at 20.00.

This event combines elements of music, theatre, visual arts and choreography. During the ‘to visit’ concert, the audience will wander around the NFM building, discovering successive parts of this live sound installation, an important element of which are the musicians' original costumes.

The premiere of the composition took place in September 2021 at the Szczecin Philharmonic. Now the Wrocław audience will hear it performed by the instrumentalists of the National Forum of Music.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10641 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

For the 7^th time, the Association of Polish Chamber Musicians invites you to Cracow’s musical salons: to large ballrooms and intimate interiors, and even to apartments! Free concerts popularizing chamber music of Polish composers will take place between September 5-28, 2023.

This year's edition will be unique not only because of the diverse repertoire, but also the performers and concert venues. This year duo Katarzyna Drogosz (piano) and Agnieszka Oszańca (cello), duo Bartosz Koziak (cello) together with Grzegorz Mania (piano), Michał Marcol (violin), Krzysztof Karpeta (cello), Monika Kruk (piano) , Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk (soprano), Anna Bernacka (mezzo-soprano), Jolanta Kowalska-Pawlikowska (soprano), Dominika Grzybacz (piano), and Polish Violin Duo (Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Łaguniak) in a quartet with Magdalena Bojanowicz (cello) and Piotr Różański (piano) will perform.

The concerts will take place at the Villa Decius Institute of Culture, the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University, the Museum of Cracow - Krzysztofory Palace and the Music Salon at Studencka street.

Free tickets are required for the concerts - https://app.evenea.pl/event/7ksm/