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Between February 18 - June 11, 2023 NOSPR will host ‘Organ Nights and Mornings’ series, in which Julian Gembalski, the author of the concept of the new NOSPR organ, and the graduates of music academies will participate.

On three mornings, the 5^th of March, the 28^th of May and the 11^th of June, organist Julian Gembalski will show you what is really hidden in an organ cabinet, what a windchest actually is, how water organs work and why you need as many as a million parts, to build such an instrument.

On the 18^th of February, the artists will juxtapose the imagination-stimulating, mythological, metaphysical and sensual images of French artists, and on the 1^st of April - the craziest, surprising and contradictory musical fragments, such as... Waltz on four legs, or referring to the legendary rivalry between Bach and Handel, improvised Dinner for four arms and legs performed by Daniel Strządała and Michał Botor.

The Polish Society for Contemporary Music, as every year, organizes the National Jury of the World Music Days 2023, which this time will be held in South Africa from November 24 to December 3. The deadline for submitting applications to PTMW is March 15, 2023. The deadline for submitting individual applications (directly to the Festival Organizers) is March 24.

The National Jury will select six works recommended by the Polish Section of ISCM for the ISCM World New Music Days festival. The Regulations are addressed to all Polish composers and to foreign composers living in Poland.

In accordance with the guidelines of the festival organizer's regulations, it is recommended that the duration of the submitted compositions be consistent with the duration assigned to each of the 16 categories. Works shorter than 10 minutes are preferred. Compositions written after 2018 are prioritized.

The compositions selected by the National Jury of each ISCM section will then be judged by an international jury in South Africa.

All information available on the website: https://ptmw.art.pl/iscm-world-new-music-days-2023/

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 18^th of February, 2023 at 19.00 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will perform compositions by legends of Polish music. The soloist of the evening will be the saxophonist Henryk Miśkiewicz, who will perform a piece by Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. The second part will feature the multicolored Symphony No. 1 by Henryk Wars. Sinfonia Iuventus will be conducted by Zbigniew Graca.

Altissimonica by Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski had its premiere in 2000, and was performed by the artist to whom it was dedicated: Henryk Miśkiewicz. And in 2004, the work was released on a well-received album of the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Graca.

Henryk Wars is remembered primarily as one of the precursors of Polish jazz and a master of song. Less is remembered about the ‘serious’ face of Wars. His monumental, colourful, four-part Symphony No. 1 (1949), close to the post-romantic tradition, delights with its changing moods, combining subtle lyricism with rhapsodic and dramatic elements.

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/wroblewski-wars/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Enter the game and take part in Game Music Fest 2023, a festival organized by the Silesian Philharmonic, which will take place in Katowice on February 17-18. The festival is dedicated to music in video games. It will begin with the Game Music Concert in Spodek, a composers' competition, and will end with a series of events at the Silesian Philharmonic, including a discussion panel with game music authors, a hologram concert, a VR and AR zone, and a networking zone.

The whole event will be opened by Game Music Concert in Spodek, performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmonic conducted by František Macek. It will be a real spectacle, enriched with animations and visualizations prepared by artists from the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences of the University of Silesia, as well as a dance show by the Seimuse group and cosplay shows.

The Game Music Fest also includes the Game Music Contest. The task of the competition is to compose a music logotype for the entire festival.

Press release

Detailed programme: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/game-music-fest/ 

The meeting of the Jury of the 6th Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Young Composers was held on the 15^th of February 2023. 34 scores from 12 countries (China, the Czech Republic, France, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Italy) were submitted to the Competition.

The Jury decided to award the Main Prize – 1,000 USD – to the composition titled: Earnendel for 7 Instruments (emblem: CM1004) by Junghoon Nam from South Korea.

Moreover, the Jury decided to grant 3 honourable distinctions to the compositions titled:

Star Atlas I – the Big Dipper No.5 – ‘Lian Zhen’ by Meng Sicong from China (emblem: (⊙﹏⊙),

Meteor Sink Into The Sea by Lixing Ding from China/Germany (emblem: D.),

Dance of Water by Xiaowen Lei from China (emblem: ).

The official reading of the protocol and the premiere of the composition granted the Main Prize will take place on the 15^th of April 2023, during the concert within the 35^th Cracow International Festival of Composers.