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A concert of music by Prof. Lidia Zielińska and her pupils, which intiates the "Master and Students" series, will take place on May 17, 2018 at 7.00 pm at the Great Hall of the Zamek Culture Center in Poznań.

The "Master and Students" series will present works of Poznań composers associated with the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań and their students. The series aims to encourage listeners to capture the characteristic features of the latest works of Poznan composers, while emphasizing the unique Master-Student relationship.

The evening of May 17 will be devoted to one of the most-recognized Poznań composers, prof. dr hab. Lidia Zielińska and her students: dr Katarzyna Taborowska, Michał Janosz and Dominik Puk. The nearly one-hour concert will consist of four symphonic works by these artists, presenting the diversity of creative attitudes.The programme will feature two world premieres and one Polish premiere. These will be the following compositions: X3 for ensemble by Lidia Zielińska (2011) – Polish premiere, The blue oranges for extended piano and orchestra by Michał Janocha (2018), and Scratch for the orchestra by Katarzyna Taborowska-Kaszuba (2018)  – the world premieres. We will also hear stultifera navis for orchestra by Dominik Puk (2017, rev. 2018).

The concert will be performed by Trans-for-Matha Ensemble, co-created by students and graduates of the  I. J. Paderewski  Academy of Music in Poznań, under the direction of Michał Janocha. The soloist in Michał Janocha's The blue oranges will be pianist Llorenç Prats Boscà. Dr Małgorzata Pawłowska will say a few words about presented pieces during the concert.

Admission to the event is free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://ckzamek.pl 

On May 19, 2018, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra invites you to the Night of Museums. As every year, there are many attractions waiting for music lovers.

From 4.00 pm there will be workshops for three groups of children (3-5 years, 6-8 years, 9-12 years). In the Chamber Hall at 8.30 pm, children's recitals will be performed by students of Katowice music schools, who will present, among others, works by Polish composers of the 20-21st century: Little variations by Stanisław Moryto, Mazur by Emil Młynarski, Musical jokes, or three fugues on the popular melodies by Andrzej Henryk Bączyk, Lullaby and Hello Reksio by Zenon Kowalowski, and Burlesque by Romuald Twardowski.

At 10.00 pm, there will be a screening of the movie Awantura o Basię (1956) with music recorded by NOSPR (then WOSPR). The material comes from the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute. At midnight, children's music literature for piano will be interpreted by Alexander Humali. At 11.00 pm in the concert hall, there will be a concert "Night with Szymanowski" – recitals of young performers intertwined with colorful tales of Marcin Majchrowski about Karol Szymanowski illustrated with unique archival photographs. During the Night of Museums in the NOSPR foyer you will be able to see an exhibition of musical installations by Waldemar Węgrzyn and try playing different musical instruments.

Admission to all the events is free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Detailed programme at: http://www.nospr.org.pl

On June 3, 2018 at 6.00 pm in the Polish Radio Concert Studio in Katowice (29 Ligonia Street) a "Beauty and Perfection" concert will take place, performed by counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński and pianist Michał Biela.

In June, Jakub Józef Orliński and Michał Biel will perform in Poland twice: at the invitation of the Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music "Silesia" on June 3 in Katowice and June 8 in Warsaw, as part of the "Opera Academy Invites" series. Later, in less than a week, their concert will take place at London's Wigmore Hall, for which tickets have been sold out for a long time.

The impressive winning streak of these young artists has been going on for two years. They are laureates of the 9th Moniuszko Competition in Warsaw, where Jakub Józef Orliński won the second prize in the male voice category, and Michał Biel won the award for the outstanding young pianist. After graduating from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (J. J. Orliński) and the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy  (M. Biel), they improved their skills at the famous New York Juilliard School. The last series of Jakub Jan Orliński's spectacular successes include winning the Grand Prix 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and winning the Marcella Sembrich International Vocal Competition. Joint performances of these artists, who have performed, among others, in the famous Carnegie Hall and during the Festival in Aix-en-Provence, meet with great applause.

The program of the June concert in Katowice includes works by Georg Friedrich Händel, Henry Purcell, Franz Schubert, Reynald Hahn, as well as Polish composers: Kurpie Songs by Karol Szymanowski, Four Love Sonnets by Tadeusz Baird and Autumn from Haiku by Paweł Łukaszewski.

Free tickets are available at the IPiUM Silesia office (2 Sejmu Śląskiego Square, ground floor, room 20) or by phone 32/219 33 44 ext. 21.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The 21st Łódź Choir Festival "Cantio Lodziensis" will take place on November 17-18, 2018 in the Łódź House of Culture (18 Traugutta St.). The Festival has a form of competition, therefore the organizers invite amateur choirs and vocal ensembles to participate.

The aim of the Festival is to present the artistic achievements of choirs and vocal ensembles and to improve their performance level, popularize valuable Polish and foreign choral literature, as well as promote artistic achievements of the Łódź composing environment. The partner of the event is Polish Composers' Union.

A completed application form should be sent to the address of the organization office by 30 September 2018. Qualified choirs and vocal ensembles are obliged to prepare a competition program consisting of at least three selected pieces not performed by the choir during the previous Festival. The organizers of the Festival encourage to include in the repertoire a work of a contemporary composer from Łódź. Its performance will be honored by an additional award of the jury. Choirs and vocal ensembles can only apply in one category. Last year's 1st prize winners of the Festival can only perform outside the competition.

The performances will be judged by a jury composed of specialists – musicians and choirmasters. On November 17, the conductors' meeting will take place with members of the Festival jury and representatives of the Łódź composers community. The theme of the meeting will be repertoire proposals and workshop issues regarding the performance of contemporary choral music. Participants will receive prizes and awards in individual categories, as well as an award for the best performance of a contemporary composer's piece. The best choir of the Festival will be awarded the Grand Prix. As part of the festival, the organizers provide additional non-competitive concerts for the participating choirs in Łódź and in the Łódź region.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Regulations and the Application Form can be found at: http://www.ldk.lodz.pl 

This time, our musical guide will be Kryštof Mařatka – an internationally acclaimed Prague composer, conductor, pianist and director. During the concert, the orchestra will perform his works In Front Of The Hungry Cage (based on the aphorisms of Franz Kafka) for piano and reciter, and Astrophonia for viola, piano and string orchestra. The soloists will be Karine Lethiec (viola) and Piotr Sałajczyk (piano).

The evening will feature the world premiere of Sinfonietta No. 2 "Polonia" – hommage à Wojciech Kilar by Maciej Bałenkowski, the composer-in-residence of Sinfonietta Cracovia and the laureate of the 1st International Composers' Competition "Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta" organized by the orchestra. The performance of Maciej Bałenkowski's work is co-financed as part of the Institute of Music and Dance programme  'Composer-in-residence'.

A few days later, on May 31 at 4.00 pm at the MANGGHA Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, there will be a presentation of a new version of Bałenkowski's composition Farewell for string orchestra, also with the participation of Sinfonietta Cracovia.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information about the event at:  http://sinfonietta.pl/koncerty/

A concert of the New Music Orchestra "Bird sky over the lake" will take place on May 27, 2018 at 6.00 pm in the Katowice headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. 

The ensemble will present works by Olivier Messiaen and his students: Tristan Murail and Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil. The programme will feature compositions inpired by nature: Oiseaux exotiques for piano and chamber orchestra by Olivier Messiaen,  ...como el sol e la mar ... (Summer) for flute and chamber orchestra by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, and Le lac for chamber orchestra by Tristan Murail.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at:  http://www.nospr.org.pl

A concert of the 15th Summer Politics Gardens in Elbląg, with the participation of Krzysztof Herdzin, Krakow Reed Trio and Elbląg Chamber Orchestra, will take place on June 8, 2018 at 7.00 pm, in the main hall of the Cyprian Norwid Elbląg Library.

Apparently, you do not enter the same river twice, but fortunately this rule does not apply to the Elbląg Chamber Orchestra and Krzysztof Herdzin. EOK and one of the most versatile Polish musicians will once again join forces – this time to show the timeless beauty of native melodies. They will be joined by the Krakow Reed Trio.

The programme will include such works as Three Crowns – a poem devoted to the mountains and a kind of musical tribute to Wojciech Kilar, Concertino for reed trio and strings, Chopiniana Con Delizia for piano and strings, and Suite on Polish themes, in which Krzysztof Herdzin refers to traditional Polish melodies – polka, olender, mazurek, zbójnicki, polonez and krakowiak.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: http://www.eok.elblag.eu

The broadcast of the comic ballet Coppélia with Léo Delibes' music live from Moscow is approaching. Viewers in 20 cinemas will watch the spectacle on June 10, 2018 and later retransmitions are planned in many other venues. Praha Cinema invites you to the broadcast on June 10 at 5.00 pm.

The Bolshoi’s unique version of Coppélia exhibits a fascinating reconstruction of the original 19th century choreography of this ebullient comedy involving a feisty heroine, a boyish fiancee with a wandering eye, and an old dollmaker. The company’s stunning corps de ballet shines in the divertissements and famous “dance of the hours,” and its principals abound in youthful energy and irresistible humor in this effervescent production.

Synopsis: Swanhilda notices her fiancee Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two sweethearts, Coppelia is not what she seems and Swanhilda decides to teach Franz a lesson…

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

List of cinemas, screening dates and casting available here.

Additional information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl 

The concert of laureates of the Antoni Cofalik National Violin and Viola Competition for Primary Music Schools' Students will take place on June 9, 2018 at 6.00 pm in the Concert Hall in Sułkowice.

The aim of the competition is to develop children's musical talent, present their artistic achievements, promote the most talented students, improve methodological and pedagogical skills of teachers and popularize the work of Professor Antoni Cofalik, an outstanding pedagogue and composer of numerous works for children and youth.

Open auditions will be held on June 8-9, 2018 in the Concert Hall located in the ZSZiO hall of residence in Sułkowice (1 Maja 66 St.). The compulsory program of the Competition includes works from collections by Antoni Cofalik: At the zoo, At the circus and Aviary.

The concert of laureates will take place in the Sułkowice Concert Hall. All participants of the Competition will receive commemorative diplomas, and the winners will also receive prizes. For the best participant of the Competition a special prize of Professor Antoni Cofalik will be handed out.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.