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Polish Composers’ Union in partnership with Berg Orchestra, Waves Bratislava and UMZE Association invite composers from the Visegrad Group countries to collaborate on the ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for sustainability’ project. Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2023.

The call is open to composers up to 35 years of age representing the Visegrad Group countries (citizens of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, living in the country and abroad).

The new works for chamber music ensemble of 7 up to 10 instruments (to be chosen from ‘Fl Ob Cl Bn / Cor Tpt Tbn / Perc/ Vn Vla Vc Cb / Elec’) will be commissioned from selected composers. Expected length of approximately 15-20 minutes, scores and parts of composition to be submitted by 31 March 2024.

The composers will be invited to take part in a series of workshops with music and ecology experts, they will visit concert sites in all partner countries and meet with local ensembles’ representatives. The new works will premiere in summer 2024.

Commission fee: 4000,00 EUR

World-famous artists - Urszula Kryger and Łukasz Kuropaczewski – as part of the National Institute of Music and Dance programme ‘With classics through Poland’, will perform for the first time at the Białowieża Cultural Center (May 4, 2023 at 6.00 pm), at the Agricultural Museum of Krzysztof Kluk in Ciechanowiec (May 5 at 14.00) and in the former synagogue in Siemiatycze (May 6 at 19.00).

During the upcoming concerts in eastern Poland, the professors will present Aleksander Tansman's Suite in Modo Polonico and works by Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Rodrigo, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Manuel de Falla.

Details: https://nimit.pl/ 

The historic piano, which was owned by the composer Joanna Bruzdowicz-Tittel, a great promoter of Polish culture, was donated by her heirs to the House of Creative Work in Radziejowice.

From the sunny south of France, an instrument from the Warsaw piano factory Jan Kerntopf i Syn, signed in 1901, came to a Polish cultural institution. The handover of the instrument took place with the participation of the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lyon, Hubert Czerniak.

Photo: from the materials of the House of Creative Work in Radziejowice.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the ‘Institutions of the future - cooperation between NOSPR and Konserthuset Stockholm’ on the 1^st of May, 2023 at 19.00 in this well-known concert hall, young virtuosos, participants of the NOSPR Academy and the Academy of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm will perform at another joint concert music by two Polish composers: Henryk Górecki and Andrzej Panufnik, combined with the famous Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler in a chamber version and a piece by Swedish Andrea Tarrodi based on Ukrainian and Swedish folk melodies.

Talented artists meet for the third time in less than a year as part of the "Institutions of the Future 2023" project co-financed by the 'Inspiring Culture' programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

This time it is a charity concert for Ukraine conducted by a Polish conductor - Vincent Kozlovsky. The soloists will be the Polish pianist Tymoteusz Bies, the Swedish-Ukrainian pianist Natalia Pasiecznik and the Polish-Ukrainian soprano Olga Pasiecznik. The concert is part of the European Festival 'Ukrainian Spring', organized by the network of European National Cultural Institutes of the European Union (EUNIC), of which the Polish Institute in Stockholm is a member, in cooperation with the European Commission.

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More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/piesni-z-nieba-koncert-dla-ukrainy 

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Scientific and Artistic Circle of Composition and Music Theory of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław invites you to the 9th Student Scientific Conference ‘Ambiguity of sound’, which will be held on May 9-10, 2023. This year's edition will take place in a hybrid formula: participants will be able to present their papers both in the AMKL building and remotely via the Microsoft Teams platform. In the case of participation as a speaker, applications for the Conference should be submitted by the 10^th of April. In the case of participation as a listener, the deadline for submitting applications is the 30^th of April. 

The theme of this year's edition - which is to inspire our participants - is ‘Between madness and logic’: the organizers propose to look at the sound in terms of language, culture, technology, acoustics or psychology. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this research project, it is addressed both to students of music theory and musicology, as well as students of other academic disciplines who are interested in the above-mentioned topics. The special guest of the 9th edition will be Dr Marcin Konik from the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute in Warsaw. Traditionally, the event will be accompanied by a Composer's Concert, during which the compositions by students of AMKL will be presented.