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Cracow | Christmas concert at the Jesuits

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Christmas mean carols! It's hard to imagine this festive time without them. When they resound in a beautiful space, they gain their full expression. This will be the case on Boxing Day, the 26th of December, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Jesuit Basilica in Cracow, in Kopernika 26 street. Admission to the concert is free!

Polish and not only Christmas carols arranged by Nowowiejski and Skoczylas, as well as organ music for Christmas performed by artists: soprano Wiktoria Bisztyga and tenor Rafał Kobyliński SJ, with the participation of organ virtuoso Marek Stefański, will warm the hearts of all those who want to spend the Christmas evening with this music unique in its expression and magical atmosphere.

Jarosław Naliwajko SJ prefect of the Basilica will be the event's host.

Press release

More: http://arsproarte.pl/#/home/nad-krakowem-gwiazdka-swieci-swiateczny-koncert-u-jezuitow  

 

Zielona Góra | (Il tema) con variazioni – Koncert Finałowy 32. Festiwalu Smyczkowego

FZ 12 23Patronat medialny nad sezonem koncertowym 2023 / 2024 Filharmonii Zielonogórskiej sprawuje Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Zwieńczeniem 32. edycji Festiwalu Smyczkowego w Filharmonii Zielonogórskiej będzie koncert zatytułowany „(Il tema) con variazioni" 15 grudnia 2023 o godz. 19.00. Podczas wielkiego finału nie może zabraknąć arcydzieł muzyki wiolinistycznej, a także wielkiej literatury symfonicznej oraz utworu Patrona Filharmonii.

Wystąpią znakomici artyści, a wśród nich skrzypaczka Amelia Maszońska i pianistka Martyna Kubik, zaś Orkiestrę Filharmonii Zielonogórskiej poprowadzi bułgarski dyrygent Vladimir Kiradjiev, wykładowca Uniwersytetu Muzycznego w Wiedniu.

Read more: Zielona Góra | (Il tema) con variazioni – Koncert Finałowy 32. Festiwalu Smyczkowego

Warszawa | Bezpłatne warsztaty improwizacji „Czytanie dźwiękiem” dla wszystkich!

Czytanie Dźwiękiem warsztatyPatronat medialny nad projektem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Jak zacząć improwizować? Wystarczy wziąć udział w warsztatach „Czytanie dźwiękiem” organizowanych przez Polskie Towarzystwo Muzyki Współczesnej w ramach programu „Warszawa kreatywna", który jest współfinansowany przez m.st. Warszawę. Wszyscy, którzy lubią muzykować - młodzież (minimum 13 lat) i dorośli - mogą przyjść 16 grudnia 2023 roku o godz. 18:00 do Miejsca Aktywności Lokalnej na warszawskim Ursynowie przy ul. E. Lokajskiego 3. Tym razem warsztaty poprowadzą: Jarek Kordaczuk (monokton i sensory ruchu), Jarosław Siwiński (syntezator), Małgorzata Kołcz (kontrabas) i Grzegorz Ociepka (aktor). Wszyscy są mile widziani - amatorzy i profesjonaliści. Udział w warsztatach jest bezpłatny! Spotkajmy się!

Będzie świetnie, przyjemnie, NIE GŁOŚNO i oczywiście bardzo twórczo. Każdy z uczestników dostanie zadanie na miarę swoich chęci i możliwości.

Pierwsza część zajęć odbędzie się w kilkuosobowych grupach, w których można będzie poznać się i porozmawiać za pomocą dźwięków, „malować” dźwiękowe portrety i pejzaże. Podczas warsztatów poznamy, jak uprawiać aleatoryzm kontrolowany, sonoryzm i kolektywną improwizację.

Read more: Warszawa | Bezpłatne warsztaty improwizacji „Czytanie dźwiękiem” dla wszystkich!

Konkurs Kompozytorski na pieśń do słów Zbigniewa Herberta

KonkursHerberta 2023Patronat medialny nad Konkursem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Akademia Muzyczna im. Stanisława Moniuszki w Gdańsku ogłasza Konkurs Kompozytorski na pieśń do słów Zbigniewa Herberta. Konkurs przeznaczony jest dla studentów klas kompozycji oraz absolwentów, którzy ukończyli Wydział Dyrygentury, Kompozycji i Teorii Muzyki w gdańskiej Akademii po 30 września 2013 roku. Przedmiotem konkursu jest skomponowanie pieśni do słów Zbigniewa Herberta. przeznaczonej na sopran solo z towarzyszeniem fortepianu lub baryton solo z towarzyszeniem fortepianu. Termin nadsyłania partytur upływa 10 stycznia 2024 roku.

Czas trwania kompozycji: od 4 do 6 minut.

Każdy kompozytor może zgłosić dowolną liczbę prac. Utwory konkursowe należy zgłaszać anonimowo.

Zwycięska kompozycja zostanie prawykonana podczas uroczystego koncertu upamiętniającego 100. rocznicę urodzin poety. Ponadto, JM Rektor ufundował nagrodę główną w wysokości 1500 zł brutto dla zwycięscy konkursu.

Read more: Konkurs Kompozytorski na pieśń do słów Zbigniewa Herberta

Warsaw | „Audio Stage" 2023 - premieres and meetings with authors

Audio Stage w WarszawieMedia patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish Society for Contemporary Music invites you to an exciting evening that will combine contemporary music, theater and dance, the "Audio Stage"! The premieres of Bartosz Kowalski's preludes and audioscene monodramas by Żaneta Rydzewska, Rafał Ryterski and Sławomir Wojciechowski will take place on the 19th of December, 2023 at 6 p.m. at the Laboratory of the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2 Jazdów Street). Admission is free.

"Audio Stage" is dedicated to the performing arts. Musical and theatrical forms - monodramas and preludes to them, which are created within its framework - function as items of theatrical repertoire and as elements of musical events. Composers specializing in experimental music are invited to participate in “Audio Stage” and prepare works in collaboration with actors, mimes and dancers.

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Wrocław | Energy of the violin in NFM

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

NFM 17 12 23Twenty-year-old violinist Wojciech Niedziółka, still a student at the Academy of Music in Łódź, was last year the only Pole who qualified for the second stage of the International Henryk WIeniawski Violin Competition. During his recital at the National Forum of Music on the 17th of December, 2023 at 12.30 he will combine traditional 19th-century virtuoso repertoire with an impressionistic piece by Krzysztof Penderecki, which is about a hundred years younger than the other works. He will be accompanied at the piano by Michał Franc, well-known to the NFM audience, who also accompanied the young musician during the Poznań competition.

Niedziółka will have many opportunities to show his skills during the performance of Krzysztof Penderecki's Cadenza. The programme of the performance includes Variations Op. 15 by Wieniawski a work writtenby him when he was only nineteen.

We will also hear compositions by Ernest Chausson, Johannes Brahms and Pablo Sarasate.

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10245 

Warsaw | „Video scores" by Anna Jędrzejewska

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

VideoPartytury 16 12 23On the 16th of December, 2023 at 6.15 p.m., at the Quality Studio in Konwiktorska 7 street in Warsaw, there will be an open recording session of children's songs "Video score" by Anna Jędrzejewska, performed by students of music schools from Warsaw. Admission is free!

The educational project "Video scores" - a series of miniatures for children - was carried out as part of an artistic scholarship from the Śródmieście District of the Capital City of Warsaw. The series of works for children are film animations that suggestively and intuitively direct people to more abstract music and teach them to listen to atonal musical textures. Work on reading video scores, conversations with children, sensitivity to sonorism and abstract thinking in performance and creative practice are, according to the composer, the most interesting forms of developing the interests of young artists.

The recording session will feature: Wojtek Grzelak (cello), Oliwia Drejewicz (double bass), Tomek Rudolf (piano), Leon Boursin (trumpet). Kamil Kowalski (graphic layout) and Małgorzata Kaznowska-Filipek (animation) will also take part in the event.

Read more: Warsaw | „Video scores" by Anna Jędrzejewska

Archiving works of Bogusław Schaeffer as part of the 'Digital Culture': score video

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The AUREA PORTA Foundation of Friends of the Arts, which promotes Polish contemporary art, is expanding the Repository of the Works of Bogusław Schaeffer. In 2023, the resource was expanded to include score video (synchronization of recordings and notations): www.boguslawschaeffer.pl/pl/video. Schaeffer's musical notation, often abandoning the symbolism ("code") of traditional notation, pictures (and does not merely "encode") the sound form of works, so following it may be attractive to all those who want to admire the abstract beauty of these graphic non-notes.

The expansion of the Repository is aimed at re-introducing works that are outstanding on a global scale, and often forgotten, into the cultural circulation. The project, which has been developed for a decade and a half, includes the archiving of paper materials (music notes, texts and graphics, manuscripts and facsimiles from the creator's private archive) and their digitization.

Katarzyna Socha, Aurea Porta

Read more: Archiving works of Bogusław Schaeffer as part of the 'Digital Culture': score video

8th Piano Competition for Children and Youth in March 2024 in Nakło!

KonkursBlechacza 24Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 8th Piano Competition for Children and Youth under the Honorary Patronage of Rafał Blechacz will be held on the 16th of March, 2024 at the Nakło Cultural Center. Students of first degree music schools will be able to take part in it. The organizers provide prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place and distinctions in each group, as well as a special prize for the best performance of a Fryderyk Chopin piece. The deadline for submitting applications is the 25th of February, 2024.

Over the past years, over 250 participants from various parts of Poland took part in the Nakło Piano Competition. This year the competition will be held in three age groups:

  •     Group I: classes I - II
  •     Group II: classes III - IV
  •     Group III: classes V - VI
Read more: 8th Piano Competition for Children and Youth in March 2024 in Nakło!

Warsaw | 1st Warsaw Experiment Studio: final concert

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Warszawskie studio eksperymentu - odsłona grudniowaThe final concert of the 1st Warsaw Experiment Studio with the participation of the legendary tubist Zdzisław Piernik and double bassist Sławek Janicki, the originator of the project, will take place on the 13th of December, 2023 at 20:00 in Hashtag Lab.

The artists will perform Bogusław Schaeffer's Project. There will also be a premiere of the last multidisciplinary work this season, Sonokinetic Cosmodernism, by Qba Janicki and Rafał Ryterski.

Mózg Foudation – Foundation of Contemporary Music and Interdisciplinary Forms is the event's organizer.

Website of the project: www.wse.mozg.pl 

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Wrocław | Premiere performances of works by Hanna Kulenty, Don Davis and Marcin Markowicz at NFM

NFM 7 12 23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 7th of December 2023 at 7 p.m. the Lutosławski Quartet will premiere three quartets at the NFM!

The first of them will be the presentation of the youthful String Quartet No. 1 "A song for string quartet" by Hanna Kulenty, which this world-famous composer decided to make available to performers forty years after it was written. The second one is the 3rd String Quartet "Screaming Into The Void", composed by Don Davis especially for the Wrocław ensemble, and in the finale we will hear the world premiere of the 6th String Quartet by Marcin Markowicz, second violinist of the Lutosławski Quartet.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10237 

Read more: Wrocław | Premiere performances of works by Hanna Kulenty, Don Davis and Marcin Markowicz at NFM

Katowice | Premiere performance of 'Concerto per mezzo' by Aleksander Nowak

FS 15 12 23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 15th of December, 2023 at 19.00 Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Antonín Dvořák and Johannes Brahms related to traditional dance melodies. What's more, together with the recognized pianist Piotr Sałajczyk, the Philharmonic will premiere Aleksander Nowak's Piano Concerto.

In recent years, the composer has been most eager to explore the area of ​​opera and musical drama, but he also often uses concert forms of various types and sizes written for outstanding soloists. This time we will hear Concerto per mezzo for piano and orchestra, commissioned by the Silesian Philharmonic.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/tance-szymanowski-dvorak-brahms-salajczyk-shemet/ 

Read more: Katowice | Premiere performance of 'Concerto per mezzo' by Aleksander Nowak

Katowice | „Stage of the Young": NOSPR Academy and RSPO Academy

NOSPR 11 12 23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The fruitful cooperation of NOSPR, Konserthuset Stockholm and the Polish Institute in Stockholm should be celebrated with dance and a bang, especially since the grand finale falls on the celebration of the 110th anniversary of Witold Lutosławski's birth. On the 11th of December, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. at the NOSPR premises, participants of the NOSPR Academy and RSPO Academy, united in one ensemble, will play, among others: arrangements of 10 Polish dances by the birthday boy and Albert Schnelzer's Apollonian Dances.

The ensemble conducted by Zofia Kiniorska will also perform Brass Quintet by Grażyna Bacewicz and Children of the Fire by Gabriella Smith.

Free tickets available on the website: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/scena-mlodych-akademia-nospr-i-rspo-academy 

Read more: Katowice | „Stage of the Young": NOSPR Academy and RSPO Academy

"Creative Warsaw": "Dominobajki" in Gocław

Dominobajki 9 12 23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 9th of December, 2023 at 11:00 at the Gocław Cultural Terminal (Jan Nowak Jeziorański 24 street) there will be another interactive concert for children (6-12 years old) and parents, "Dominobajka", organized by the Polish Society of Contemporary Music. Admission is free!

We will hear "Dominobajki" by Jarosław Siwiński for piano, drums, showman and children's audience. The piece consists of 15 abstract, fairy-tale elements that appeal to children's imagination, such as Athanasius the Knight, Silver Nuts, Space Rocket, Door, Chase, etc., from which concert participants compose their own micro-stories. Then the musicians play these stories, performing appropriate fragments in the order determined by the children.

Performers: Jarosław Siwiński (piano), Leszek Lorent (drums), Małgorzata Kołcz (audience guide).

Free tickets can be downloaded at https://biletyna.pl/koncert/DOMINOBAJKI-koncert-muzyki-wspolczesnej-dla-dzieci  lor at the tocket office of thr Culture Terminal.

Małgorzata Kołcz

More about the event: https://fb.me/e/gfDvPuVXp 

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Warsaw | Smyki i pierniki

HashtagLab 9 12 23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 9th of December, 2023 at 10.00, 12.00 and 14.00 Hashtag Lab invites you to a pre-Christmas, intergenerational concert for the whole family as part of the "ĄsąBąble" series. Performed by the Hashtag Ensemble, we will hear improvisations on songs about winter and songs dedicated to this festive period.

The musicians from Hashtag Ensemble will "wrap gifts in sounds" to give us more fun discovering. The sounds will contain melodies that bring us goodness and peace this December - such as the carol from Pēteris Vasks' String Quartet No. 3.

Ticket information: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/smyki-i-pierniki/ 

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