On 26-27 March 2018, the Choral Studies and Artistic Education Department at the UFMC organizes the National Scientific and Artistic Conference "Choral music – achievements, perspectives: choral music of the 20th and 21st century".

During the conference, research devoted to contemporary choral music, as well as festival and competition initiatives related to contemporary choral music will be presented. Speakers will discuss ways of developing choral music and current compositional trends in the 20th and 21st centuries. Papers on contemporary composing techniques and performance practice will be delivered. There will also be a discussion between artists and practitioners on the issue of ​​performing choral music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The organizers invited conductors, choirmasters, musicologists and theoreticians interested in choral music and its artistic and didactic values. The participants will discuss, among others, performance issues of Szymon Godziemba-Trytek's composition, choral texture in the works of Paweł Łukowiec, choral works of Aleksander Szeligowski and composers of the XX-XXI century connected with Cieszyn Silesia. Papers will also be given by composers: Miłosz Bembinow – Choral music as a showcase of Polish culture abroad, Marek Raczyński – Where music is born – the composer's cooperation with the conductor, Marcin Łukaszewski – Wojciech Łukaszewski's choral art, Szymon Godziemba-Trytek Karawaki symbolism in the song "Crux Christi salva nose" of Szymon Godziemba-Trytek.

The conference will take place in the didactic building of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music at the Instrumental and Pedagogical Faculty in Białystok (5 Kawaleryjska St.). The scientific manager of the event is dr hab. Anna Olszewska, prof. UMFC.

As part of the Conference, there will be a concert of the Female Choir of the I. Paderewski Music Schools Complex in Bialystok "Schola Cantorum Bialostociensis" under the direction of Anna Olszewska.

Media Patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.