Easter 2023
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
The Palace in Rybna invites you to the Piano Courses organized as part of the ‘Master and Students’ masterclasses. The event will take place from the 28th of April to the 3rd of May, 2023 and is intended for students of music schools of 1st and 2nd degrees as well as for university students. The course programme includes individual lessons, chamber music and sight-reading classes, as well as lectures. The pedagogues of this year's edition are: Agnieszka Kopińska, Anna Czaicka-Jaklewicz, Szczepan Kończal, Łukasz Trepczyński, Maciej Słapiński, and Mateusz Meisner. The registration is open until the 14th of April, 2023, the number of places is limited.
The Piano Courses prepare for competitions and entrance exams to music schools of 2nd degree and higher education institutions. They are aimed at anyone who wants to develop their skills in playing the piano. Participants of the courses also have the opportunity to participate in the final concert (from which they will receive a professional audio recording) and will be provided with accommodation and meals.
Detailed information about the courses can be found on the Palace in Rybna website https://palacwrybnej.pl/kursy-pianistyczne-28-04-pt-3-05-sr/, as well as on the Facebook page - www.facebook.com/pianistycznerybna.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
We would like to invite composers from all over the world to participate in the 3rd edition of the international composition competition 'art and violence'.
The initiator and organizer of the competition is the Cracow-based 2Act Foundation. Together with the project partners - Capella Cracoviensis, the Association of Authors ZAiKS and the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC we would like to encourage composers to create an original work for harpsichord and electronics, referring in its idea to the relationship between art and different forms of violence.
The jury members in the 2023 edition are composers:
Marco Stroppa, Magdalena Długosz, Karol Nepelski and the secretary of the competition Jarosław Płonka.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
NOSPR, conducted by its artistic director Lawrence Foster will present works by Fryderyk Chopin and Krzysztof Penderecki on the 6th of April, 2023 at 7.30 pm. The pianist Szymon Nehring will perform as a soloist.
Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 and Symphony No. 4 'Adagio' by Krzysztof Penderecki will be performed.
Before the concert at 18.30, in the chamber hall there will be a meeting with Róża Światczyńska, who will discuss the pieces performed that evening. The entrance to the lecture is free of charge, the subscription card or a concert ticket entitles you to participate in the lecture.
Additional information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/artysci/szymon-nehring
The National Institute of Music and Dance opens recruitment for the Publishing Programme. The scientific, popular science and popularizing editions devoted to dance will be co-financed. The programme is addressed to publishing houses and authors cooperating with them. The deadline for submitting applications is the 24th of April, 2023. The budget of the programme in the 2023 edition is PLN 60,000 gross. Applications must be submitted only electronically using the Witkac system.
The deadline for selecting applications by the evaluation committee and the deadline for publishing the list of projects approved for implementation on the Institute's website is the 15th of May, 2023. Applicants of these projects will be informed about the positive decision by e-mail to the e-mail address provided in the application.
The Publishing Programme co-finances projects consisting of scientific and popular science publications (first editions of Polish-language publications or the first editions of translations into Polish) in the field of dance and popularization editions, including: doctoral and master's theses, post-conference volumes, biographies, monographs, volumes collective, occasional albums, special issues of periodicals and others related to dance. The programme is addressed to publishing houses and authors cooperating with them - researchers, theoreticians, authors of popular science publications.
Rules and regulations - on the website: https://nimit.pl/aktualnosci/program-wydawniczy-2023-rusza-nabor-wnioskow/
The Capella Bydgostiensis Chamber Orchestra and the Academic Choir of the UKW in Bydgoszcz, conducted by Benedykt Odya, will premiere Piotr Komorowski's Stabat Mater on the 5th of April, 2023 at 19.00 at the Pomeranian Philharmonic. The composition was commissioned by the conductor, a professor at the Kazimierz Wielki University.
As Piotr Komorowski, president of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Branch of the Polish Composers' Union, points out: ‘I hope that music can give poetry an additional emotional dimension, enrich it with a space that we can fill with our own thoughts, experiences and feelings. I tried to make the musical language I use personal, modern, and at the same time not lose connection with the great tradition of music in all its richness from the Middle Ages to the present day. I would like the music I composed to speak directly to the hearts of the listeners, to touch those deeply hidden strings of our soul, the existence of which we are sometimes not even aware of.’
There will also be Passion songs arranged by Daniel Pradella.
More: https://filharmonia.bydgoszcz.pl/kalendarz/koncert-w-wielka-srode/
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Instruments with an unusual timbre – marimbas – accompany the baritone Marcin Bronikowski, who performs Gabriel Collet's songs to Adam Mickiewicz's sonnets. His poetry in a new version will be heard during the concert premiere of the album Mickiewicz for three voices at the Grand Theatre Teatr - Polish National Opera on the 4th of April, 2023 at 18.00.
Percussionist and composer Gabriel Collet, born in France, has been active in Poland since 2005. He is a holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship and the winner of the 1st prize at the International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in Cracow. Together with Elwira Ślązak, he creates the marimbaphone duo Axoum Duo, which we will hear during the concert.
The cycle of 11 songs for baritone and two marimbas to selected sonnets by Adam Mickiewicz was dedicated by Gabriel Collet to the baritone Marcin Bronikowski, with whom he has been collaborating since 2008.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Press release
Tickets: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/koncert-uczestnikow-programu-akademia-nospr-4
On the 30th of March, 2023, Mirosław Perz, an outstanding musicologist and educator, an expert in early Polish music, a member of the Polish Composers' Union, chairman of the Musicologists' Section in 1981-1983 and 1991-1993, passed away in Warsaw...
He was a great figure of the Polish musicological community in the field of early Polish music. Among his many scientific achievements is the discovery of the oldest monuments of Polish music in the monastery Sanctuary of St. Kinga in Stary Sącz, marked with the legendary StS signature, and the first monographic edition on Mikołaj Gomółka with a historical interpretation of the Melody for the Polish Psalter. With his scientific consultation, Capella Bydgostiensis, under the direction of Włodzimierz Szymański, made the first recording of all preserved works by Mikołaj from Radom.
We are left with an extraordinary series of broadcasts Two Hundred Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach made by him in Programme 2 of the Polish Radio. An excellent academic lecturer, beloved by students, director of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw. An active member of the Polish Composers' Union, chairman of the Musicologists' Section, in 2013 he was awarded the title of Honorary Member. He will remain in his works, on the pages of the encyclopedia and in our memory.
May he rest in peace...
