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On the 2^nd of April, 2023 at 6.00 pm, performed by Camerata Silesia the Singers of the City of Katowice and the NOSPR instrumentalists conducted by Anna Szostak, we will hear Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem by Arvo Pärt, as well as Introductio ad Passionem Domini by Tomasz Orlow, a student of Julian Gembalski. The composer will also perform as an organist.

The Bach Passions undoubtedly paved the way for the next generations reaching for this genre. In the 20^th century, composers rediscovered their potential, which resulted in excellent works that we will hear during the April concert at NOSPR.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/zespol-spiewakow-miasta-katowice-camerata-silesia-anna-szost 

The Easter concert of the Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anna Duczmal-Mróz will take place on the 2^nd of April, 2023 at 18.00 in the Adam Mickiewicz University auditorium in Poznań. We will be able to hear the guitarist Marcin Kozioł, who together with the orchestra will premiere Suite concertante for guitar and string orchestra by Piotr Moss.

The work, written especially for this occasion, was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state special purpose fund, as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The programme will also include the following pieces: Prelude 8 The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Claude Debussy arranged by Jerzy Maksymiuk and Verklärte Nacht Op.4 by Arnold Schönberg. The programme of the concert will be discussed by a music journalist Marcin Majchrowski.

Ticket information: https://amadeus.pl/Re/event-02-04-2023-marcin-koziol-koncert-wielkanocny 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 31^st of March, 2023, this year's series of improvisation workshops ‘Tell me a fairy tale’, organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music and the Art Deco Group Music Agency begins. The first workshop will take place in the Kindergarten No. 183 in Warsaw's Praga Północ. and pianist Jarosław Siwiński and double bass player Małgorzata Kołcz.

Classes are aimed at children aged 3-8 and their parents. They combine graphically inspired improvisations - first literary and then musical. Children create their own stories based on the presented picture books. The improvised fairy tales are then ‘translated’ into musical language under the guidance of the teachers. Creative contact with literature and music, facilitated by fun-initiating graphics and inventing simple stories, introduces children to the world of sounds, based on their natural creativity.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Society of Friends of Łódź, Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, the Piccolo Theater in Łódź and Primary School No. 175 in Łódź announce the 28^th Showcase of Songs about Łódź 'Łódzkie Wings 2023' on the 600^th Birthday of Łódź. The competition auditions will take place on the 27^th and the 28^th of April, 2023 at the Piccolo Theatre. Applications with a complete set of attachments should be sent by the 31^st of March.

The aim of the Competition is to shape, develop and deepen ties with the 'Little Homeland' by popularizing songs about Łódź among children and youth. The competition is addressed to children and teenagers from Łódź and the surrounding area (Łódź Voivodeship).

Participation in the competition is open to soloists, ensembles (vocal, vocal-instrumental, vocal-movement ensembles), choirs from kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and participants of activities in out-of-school education facilities, including children and youth of national minorities.

Participants are obliged to prepare and present two songs in Polish (or the native language of the competition participant) at the competition audition. One of them has to be a piece about Łódź. The total duration of the performance may not exceed 10 minutes.

The organizers encourage you to compose new songs about Łódź, and to create new arrangements and arrangements of already existing songs about Łódź. Jubilee compositions related to the 600^th anniversary of granting Łódź city rights will be welcome.

Rules and regulations of the competition at the website of the Society of Friends of Łódź www.tplodzi.eu and https://sp175lodz.pl/ 

After almost two years, Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa's opera Wanda, based on the mystery play by Bard, returns to the concert circuit, but this time not to the Wawel courtyard, but to the stage of the Cracow Opera. The premiere of the new, extensive staging is scheduled for the 1^st of April, 2023 at 18.30.

On the stage of the Cracow institution, the work will be presented in a new staging, with different sets and costumes. The choreography has also been expanded. The elements of the stage version were worked on by the team responsible for the production of the Wawel premiere, including Michał Klauza (musical director), Waldemar Zawodziński (direction, scenography, multimedia), Maria Balcerek (costumes) and Janina Niesobska (choreography). Among performers there will be almost all artists who took part in the premiere performance in 2021 - the world-famous bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny will once again play the role of Grodny.

Ticket information: https://opera.krakow.pl/spektakle/wanda