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The National Institute of Music and Dance, in cooperation with the Warsaw Philharmonic, announces recruitment for the fifth edition of the Polish Music Scene artistic programme, taking place in the artistic season 2023/24. The deadline for submitting applications is the 31^st of March, 2023 inclusive (until 23:59). The budget of the 2023/2024 edition of the Polish Music Scene programme is PLN 240,000.

The application form should be submitted in the electronic version only with all required attachments, at the same time providing a link to the place where the required audio-video material is posted.

The list of projects that will receive funding in the competition will be announced on the website of the National Institute of Music and Dance by the 10^th of May, 2023. Successful applicants will be informed by official letter.

If the full pool of funds allocated for the edition of the programme in the 2023/2024 season is not exhausted, the Director of the National Institute of Music and Dance may announce a second round of applications at a later date.

Regulations available on the website: https://nimit.pl/aktualnosci/scena-muzyki-polskiej-sezon-2023-24-startuje-nabor-wnioskow/ 

Yearbooks published by the Section of Musicologists of the Polish Composers' Union have been released: "Polish Rocznik Muzykologiczny" 2022 – ‘Women and Music’ - and ‘Musicology Today’ 2022. Both are now available online: https://www.polskirocznikmuzykologiczny.pl/wydanenumery.php and https://sciendo.com/journal/MUSO.

The Polish Musical Yearbook is published in online and printed versions (PWM Kraków, the magazine can be ordered at the publishing house's online bookstore). The online version is also available on the scientific platform https://sciendo.com/journal/PRM. The 2022 yearbook contains 12 articles. The first two are published in English. These are texts by Annegret Fauser (USA) about Wanda Landowska and by Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska about Nadia Boulanger in the light of the writings of Zygmunt Mycielski. The remaining articles were published in Polish (with English summaries). These are texts by Izabela Zymer about Zofia Lissa and Włodzimierz Iwannik, Anna Nowak about Hanna Kulenty, Iwona Świdnicka and Marta Dziewanowska-Pachowska - both about Lidia Zielińska, Barbara Literska about Katarzyna Kwiecińska-Długosz, and Joanna Schiller-Rydzewska about women in the musical culture of Gdańsk based on the collections of the local library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Stefan Drajewski on Polish female ballet composers, Aleksandra Kleinrok on 19th-century Warsaw music salons, Tomasz Górny on Sara Levy, and - as a free topic - an in-depth study by Edward Boniecki on Karol Szymanowski's Litany.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Songs of the 19^th and 20^th centuries will resound in a 14^th-century tenement house in Wrocław-currently the elegant Art Hotel Wrocław-during the concert on the 5^th of March, 2023 at 18.00 as part of the 2^nd International 'Brzmienie Fest' Festival . Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wachowska and the artistic director of the Festival, pianist Iwona Sukienik will perform.

In this historic place in the heart of the city, we will hear works by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko, Karol Szymanowski and Stanisław Niewiadomski. There will also be an accent from the South and wonderful Gypsy melodies by Antonin Dvořák. The concert will be conducted by Grzegorz Bugaj.

The leitmotif of all events within the 2^nd Festival, organized by the Culture of Sound Foundation, is the music of Polish and foreign composers of the 19^th, 20^th and 21^st centuries in arrangements for various instrumental ensembles.

Admission free - booking in advance is required!

SEE: Event on Facebook.

More information about performers, the full programme of the concert and the next events of the Festival at: www.kulturabrzmienia.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Music of the Books of Jacob is a project commissioned by the Festival of Four Cultures in Łódź, inspired by the monumental work of Olga Tokarczuk. Works included in the programme of the concert at the National Forum of Music on the 5^th of March, 2023 at 18.00, create a coherent mosaic of various elements - apart from classical music, we will also hear compositions drawing on Polish, Jewish, Turkish-Balkan, Moldavian and Ukrainian music.

The composer and soprano Agata Zubel will appear on stage together with Mateusz Szemraj and Hubert Zemler, as well as the Bastarda Trio and the Lutosławski Quartet, one of the ensembles of the National Forum of Music.

Press release

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9307 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Women's Month at the Tadeusz Baird Zielona Góra Philharmonic will abound in as many as three symphonic concerts, a piano recital, an oratorio concert and educational concerts, which will take place on March 3-31, 2023.

During the inaugurating concert, the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Joanna Natalia Ślusarczyk, and the French horn player Michał Szczerba will perform as a soloist. We will hear the Concerto in Green by Zielona Góra composer Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, which was commissioned by the Zielona Góra Philharmonic and will be performed for the first time this evening. The composition was written for the Gdańsk horn player Michał Szczerba, who was its originator. We will also hear works by Debussy, Bizet and the Overture in the old style of the patron of the Philharmonic.

Participation in the following concerts was announced by, among others, conductors Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny and Ewa Strusińska, singers Dagmara Rybak, Solomia Pavlenko and Justyna Khil, pianist Aleksandra Świgut, violinists Katarzyna Górska, Zuzanna Włodarczyk, violist Natalia Rychlik and the Wrocław Women's Choir.

Detailed programme: http://filharmoniazg.pl/