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The 2022/2023 artistic season of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will end with a concert on the 10^th of June at 19.00 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio. It will be a unique concert of 20^th and 21^st century music inspired by the works of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The conductor and soloist will be Stefan Plewniak, a versatile artist known as baroque and contemporary violinist, conductor and music producer.

Ottorino Respighi's Trittico botticelliano is an evocation of three famous paintings by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli from the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Maurice Ravel, writing the piano cycle of six miniatures Le Tombeau de Couperin, referred to the concept of the Baroque suite. In Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed, Max Richter reached for the well-known programme cycle of four concertos by the Italian Baroque master and showed it in a completely new light, using well-known motifs (according to Richter, his version contains about 1/4 of Vivaldi's original material) processed and embedded in new contexts. Zuzanna Całka, who plays the synthesizer, will also perform as a soloist in this piece.

Ticket information: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/respighi-ravel-richter-zakonczenie-sezonu-artystycznego-2022-2023/ 

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On the 10^th of June, 2023 at 11.00 at the Sto Pociech Foundation at Freta 20/24A street in Warsaw the final of this year's improvisation workshops for children ‘Tell me a fairy tale’ will take place. During the classes you will be able to learn more about contemporary music and improvisation.

Classes are dedicated to children aged 3-8 and their parents. They last about 90 minutes with a short break. The workshops will be conducted by jazz vocalist and music therapist Iza Kowalewska, multi-instrumentalist Bartosz Smorągiewicz and composer and pianist Jarosław Siwiński.

Participation in the workshops is free of charge - the number of places is limited, therefore prior registration of participants is required.

Applications are accepted in two ways:

• via online form: https://forms.gle/pVGojdEbqYDoLExV9 
• 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

Jerzy Maksymiuk is one of the most outstanding Polish conductors. In the programme of the artist's concert with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic on the 9^th of June, 2023 at 19.00 in the National Forum of Music there are three works. The author of the first of them is the conductor himself, the second is one of the most acclaimed piano concertos of the 20^th century, and the third - a composition by the British artist - is one of the most mysterious works in the history of music.

Vers per archi is a composition by Jerzy Maksymiuk from 2015. We will also hear Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. The solo part will be performed by Janusz Olejniczak. The last piece will be the ‘Enigma’ Variations Op. 36 by Edward Elgar.

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More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9330 

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The 1^st National Saxophone Competition ‘Con spirito’ for students of primary and secondary music schools will take place in Włocławek on June 9-14, 2023. This year's edition is planned in the online formula (sending of the recordings). The deadline for submitting applications is the 7^th of June.

2 pieces of different character should be performed (one of them should present technical values).

There are financial and material prizes for the winners, including a special prize for the performance of a work by a Polish composer of the 20^th-21^st century, funded by the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC.

Rules and regulations available on the website https://www.aulos.org.pl/con-spirito 

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On July 3-9, 2023, the 2^nd Instrumental Masterclasses "Enchanted Virtuoso" will take place in Dobczyce. They are intended for children (from the age of 8) and youth of art schools of the 1st and 2nd degree and students of music academies. This year, the courses will be conducted by such artists as Łukasz Błaszczyk, Monika Szweda (violin), Grzegorz Frankowski (double bass), Agata Igras (flute), Tomasz Polak (clarinet), Gajusz Kęska (piano) and Konrad Mastyło (ensemble workshops). The deadline for submitting applications is the 27^th of June.

During the courses, lecturers will conduct 5 lessons (45 minutes) for each student. Each participant has the opportunity to work with an accompanist (2 x 20 min.).

At the end of the courses, there will be a concert of lecturers and participants (July 8), the programme of which consists of the works of Polish artists. The Polish premiere of Miłosz Magin's Concerto No. 2 for piano, string orchestra and timpani will take place: Gajusz Kęska will perform as the soloist, while Marek Hampel will conduct. During the concert, students selected by the course teachers will have the opportunity to present a piece from their repertoire with the Orchestra of the Cracow Cultural Syndicate.

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://szkolamuzyczna.dobczyce.pl/stowarzyszenie/kursy-mistrzowskie