The Polish music community award gala will be broadcast on 14 November 2021 at 7.00 p.m. on TVP Kultura, TVP Kultura 2 and on the YouTube channel of the National Institute of Music and Dance. Outstanding musicians will perform works by famous Polish composers, including Wojciech Młynarski, Jerzy "Duduś" Matuszkiewicz and Wojciech Karolak.

The awards will be presented in four categories: Honorary Award, Discovery of the Year, Personality of the Year and Event of the Year. The financial awards were sponsored by the ZAiKS Authors' Association and the STOART Union of Performing Artists.

“For the second time in the eleven-year history of the Coryphaeus of Polish Music awards, we invite you to the gala in front of TV screens and computers. This year we will present a kind of kaleidoscope of classical and jazz music in new performances and arrangements, ”says Katarzyna Meissner, director of the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The programme of the event under the musical direction Paweł Tomaszewski will include works by great artists who passed away years ago and those whom we lost recently, interpreted by exceptional artists, repeatedly awarded by the National Institute of Music and Dance. To commemorate Wojciech Karolak, Maciej Sikała on saxophone, Paweł Tomaszewski on Hammond organ, Robert Kubiszyn on double bass and Paweł Dobrowolski on percussion will recall the repertoire of the legendary trio Time Killers. Alicja Szemplińska will remind the figures of Jerzy "Duduś" Matuszkiewicz and Wojciech Młynarski with her interpretation of the hit song Jeszcze w zielone gramy.

The programme will also include chamber music. The Polish Violin Duo, winners of the 1st International Polish Music Competition, will present Michał Spisak's Suite for two violins. The flautist Marianna Żołnacz, winner of the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award 2017, will perform Tadeusz Baird's Colas Breugnon suite with the Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra under the baton of Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, a participant of the Conductor-in-Residence programme run by NIMiT. To mark the 70th birthday of Andrzej Krzanowski, the accordionist Marcin Wyrostek will present a new arrangement of the composer's Highlander Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information about the award: www.koryfeusz.org.pl 

Link to the online broadcast on TVP Kultura 2: https://kultura2.tvp.pl/