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Krasnystaw | "In the circle of Mariusz Dubaj": concert on the 65th birthday of the composer

Dubaj 12 3 24Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Krasnystaw Regional Museum and the Lublin Branch of the Polish Composers' Union would like to invite you to an author's meeting and piano recital by Prof. Mariusz Dubaj on the 12th of March, 2024, at 4 p.m., on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The programme of the concert "In the circle of Mariusz Dubaj" will include works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Frederic Chopin, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Wojciech Kilar and the Jubilate author's Jubilee Composition X on the occasion of the 630th anniversary of Krasnystaw. Admission is free!

The Krasnystaw-born composer, music theorist, pianist, pedagogue and organizer of musical life serves as president of the Lublin Branch of the Polish Composers' Union. He is the winner of many awards in composition competitions at home and abroad, as well as honors (including "Golden Carp" Krasnystaw 2000, Medal for Merit to Culture "Gloria Artis" 2015). His works have been performed at many concerts and festivals (in Poland, Italy, Germany, England, France, Greece, Holland, Japan, Portugal, Hungary, Ukraine and the United States), recorded for albums (including DUX, King Records in Japan), for radio and television, and published in print (by PWM, Polihymnia).

The meeting with Mariusz Dubaj will be hosted by Dr. Ewa M. Zarzycka.

Additional information: https://www.muzeumkrasnystaw.pl/aktualnosci/n,353563,recital-fortepianowy-prof-mariusza-dubaja.html# 

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Honorary Award of the Polish Composers' Union for merits in the promotion of Polish Music 2024

Szczecinska Ewa

The Presidium of the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union, at its meeting on the 6th of March, 2024, awarded this year's Honorary Award of the Polish Composers' Union for merits in the promotion of Polish contemporary music to Ewa Szczecińska - for persistent and competent activity promoting the works of Polish contemporary composers on Polish Radio. The "Nowa Polska" series, devoted to the youngest generation of Polish composers, deserves special mention.

Ewa Szczecińska studied musicology at the University of Warsaw. She hosts the programmes "Nowa Polska" and "Nocna Strefa" on the Programme 2 of the Polish Radio. She specializes in the latest music, but also devotes a lot of attention to the music of earlier eras, taking part in the programmes "Muzyczny Trybunał Dwójki" and "Płytomania". She publishes articles in "Ruch Muzyczny", "Tygodnik Powszechny", "Glissando" and in Internet portals.

She has created an archive of the latest Polish musical work, in all its diversity of aesthetic choices, techniques and styles, which is difficult to overestimate, and which is constantly being expanded.

The award ceremony is scheduled for the 67th International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn" on the 25th of September 2024.

Congratulations!

5th edition of the "With Classics through Poland" project

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The National Institute of Music and Dance, thanks to the "With Classics through Poland" project, has been providing the inhabitants of small towns, towns and villages throughout Poland with classical music concerts performed by recognized artists for 5 years. Admission to the concerts is free.

448 concerts have already been organized with the participation of 337 artists in 327 towns, reaching almost 40,000 listeners in fourteen regions of Poland, including: in eastern Podlasie or in the distant Bieszczady Mountains. It is always an extraordinary experience for the invited artists, performing for an audience that is attending a classical music concert for the first time.

This year, the Polish Music Management invited such artists as Piotr Paleczny, Janusz Olejniczak, Ewa Pobłocka, Rafał Blechacz, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Waldemar Malicki, Agata Szymczewska, Olga Pasiecznik, Janusz Wawrowski, Paweł Gusnar, Julia Kociuban, Anna Radziejewska, Robert Gierlach, Aldona Barnik, Aleksander Dębicz, Mateusz Krzyżowski, Wrocław Baroque Ensemble and others.

About the project: https://nimit.pl/dzialalnosc/z-klasyka-przez-polske/ 

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Katowice | NOSPR Orchestra Academy & Vincent Kozlovsky

Orkiestra Akademii NOSPR & Vincent Kozlovsky / Suita tanecznaMedia patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The new NOSPR organ is the largest such instrument in the region! On the 11th of March, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. it will part of a concert of young musicians of the NOSPR Academy in a piece that would be perfect as the soundtrack to a sci-fi movie or an epic computer game.

Hailed as ecstatic and saturated with contradictions, the Concerto in G minor for organ, timpani and strings is one of Poulenc's most outstanding works. The young musicians of the NOSPR Academy, conducted by Vincent Kozlovsky, will also reach for Béla Bartók's Dance Suite, which already during the composer's lifetime became a symbol of thoroughly modern music and immediately found its way into the repertoire of many orchestras.

Alexandra Kozowicz

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/scena-mlodych-orkiestra-akademii-nospr-and-vincent-kozlovsky 

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Warsaw | Lenten concert "Carmina Dolorosa": premiere performance of work by Katarzyna Brochocka

Carmina Dolorosa - koncert wielkopostnyMedia patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Lenten concert entitled "Carmina Dolorosa" ("Sorrowful Songs") will feature songs understood literally and symbolically, as an instrumental meditation on the texts.

On the 10th of March, 2024 at 6 p.m., the Church of Creative Communities in Warsaw (Plac Teatralny 18) will host the premiere of Psalms and Songs of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh by Katarzyna Brochocka. Free entrance!

On one hand, Katarzyna Brochocka's compositions allude to the centuries, old history of works of a penitential and ascetic character. On the other hand, they introduce a new quality and a fresh perspective of a young but already recognised composer, living in our times and currently working in Warsaw. Brochocka's works are characterised by an expressive musical language, an extraordinary 'theatricality' of means of expression, which the artist combines with respect for the tradition and forms of previous eras.

The concert will feature two world premieres: Psalm 32 for bass voice and double bass and 'Songs of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh' for piano solo - a cycle of meditations on texts from the book of the prophet Isaiah. Psalms 16 and 131 in a new Latin version will also be heard in public for the first time. The repertoire will also include 'Soliloquia' for solo bass, a kind of 'songs without words' based on selected pericopes from the New Testament.

The piano for the concert is provided by KAWAI.

More: https://www.facebook.com/o.to.jaFundacja 

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Warsaw | Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, George Tchitchinadze and Krzysztof Jakowicz

Warszawa | Polska Orkiestra Sinfonia Iuventus, George Tchitchinadze i Krzysztof JakowiczMedia patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The upcoming concert of Sinfonia Iuventus will take place at the Polish History Museum on the 9th of March, 2024 at 7.00 p.m. The orchestra will be conducted by George Tchitchinadze - professor at the Tbilisi State Conservatory. The solo part will be performed by the legendary Krzysztof Jakowicz, one of the greatest Polish violinists, whose artistic and pedagogical achievements are widely known and admired.

The concert will open with the concert overture Calm See and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, followed by Karol Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1. The event will end with the last of the four symphonies by Johannes Brahms, full of melancholy.

Ticket information: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/mendelssohn-szymanowski-brahms-2/ 

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Opole | Międzynarodowy Dzień Kobiet 2024 w Filharmonii Opolskiej: Celina i Malwina Kotz

Międzynarodowy Dzień Kobiet 2024 w Filharmonii OpolskiejPatronat medialny nad sezonem koncertowym 2023 / 2024 Filharmonii Opolskiej im. Józefa Elsnera sprawuje Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Z okazji Międzynarodowego Dnia Kobiet 8 marca 2024 roku o godz. 19.00 w Filharmonii Opolskiej wystąpią w roli solistek skrzypaczki Celina i Malwina Kotz. Będzie im towarzyszyła Orkiestra Filharmonii Opolskiej pod batutą Piotra Mazurka.

Rozpocznie koncert Uwertura na orkiestrę symfoniczną Grażyny Bacewicz. Można odczytać tę partyturę jako „iskrzącą się życiem, pędzącą jak na skrzydłach temperamentu rytmicznego” (Stefan Kisielewski). Prawykonanie dzieła odbyło się 1 września 1945 roku podczas zorganizowanego tuż po wojnie Festiwalu Polskiej Muzyki Współczesnej w Krakowie.

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Katowice | International Women's day "Portrait of a lady"

Katowice | Międzynarodowy Dzień Kobiet: „Portret damy"Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

March 8, International Women's Day, will be celebrated at the Silesian Philharmonic in an atmosphere of awe at the beauty of music. The Silesian Chamber Orchestra, together with Łukasz Szubski, has prepared a unique programme for this evening, filled entirely with works dedicated to ladies. Shen Yiwen - winner of the Vienna International Conducting Competition "Wiener Schule" 2023 - will be behind the conductor's desk.

Thus, we will hear the Bagatelle "For Eliza" and the most famous - the first - movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, Robert Schumann's Dream, Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder-Walzer, Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor, which he dedicated to his sister Ludwika, Antonín Dvořák's Two Waltzes, and Wojciech Kilar's music for the film Portrait of a Lady.
Pianist Łukasz Szubski will perform as soloist.

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Kraśnik, Niedrzwica Duża, Rybczewice | „With Classics through Poland": Szymon Nehring, Jakub Jakowicz, Marcin Zdunik

Kraśnik, Niedrzwica Duża, Rybczewice | „Z klasyką przez Polskę": Szymon Nehring, Jakub Jakowicz, Marcin ZdunikA variety of young Polish virtuosos - pianist Szymon Nehring, violinist Jakub Jakowicz and cellist Marcin Zdunik - thanks to the "With Classics through Poland" programme, will perform on the 8th of March, 2024 at the Center for Culture and Promotion in Kraśnik, and on the 9th of March at the Municipal Center for Culture, Sports and Recreation in Niedrzwica Duża and on the 10th of March at Dwór in Rybczewice. Admission to the concerts is free!

The series of concerts "With classics through Poland", organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance and financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, is addressed to smaller towns throughout Poland, where direct contact with great, wonderful music and recognized artists is difficult.

More: https://nimit.pl/ 

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