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We are sad to announce that on the 16^th of March, 2023, Alina Sawicka-Baird passed away at the age of 93.

She was a symbolic figure for the Polish Composers' Union and she bound her whole life with it. From 1953, she worked for the Union, first as a spokesperson, then as office director. Here she met her husband Tadeusz Baird, one of the greatest Polish composers of the 20^th century. She had her friends in the composing and musicological circles associated with the Polish Composers' Union, and she also made friends with outstanding musicians-performers across the Polish Composers' Union. After formally leaving her job, she kept in touch with the Union, took part in our general meetings, concerts and festivals. For years, she funded the main prize of the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers. She was the alpha and omega in the field of union history, often solving issues about which written sources remained silent. We always acted with the awareness of her closer or further presence. It will be harder for us without her.

May she rest in peace!

Polish Composer's Union

Patronat medialny nad wydarzeniem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Daniela Cardim i Edward Clug – ikony światowej współczesnej choreografii, po raz pierwszy w Polsce, wraz z tancerzami Teatru Wielkiego w Poznaniu przedstawią swoje wizje Stabat Mater Karola Szymanowskiego i Giovanniego Battisty Pergolesiego 29 i 30 marca 2023 o godz. 19.00.

W interpretacjach choreograficznych znajdziemy bogate spectrum emocji – od cierpienia i żałoby, po afirmację życia, od wstrzymującego oddech poczucia straty, po akceptację tego, co przynosi los. Dwie części spektaklu tworzą historię o kobiecie-matce. Synergia dźwięku i ruchu, wielowymiarowość przekazu, doskonała interpretacja tancerzy Baletu Teatru Wielkiego w Poznaniu - Stabat Mater Danieli Cardim i Edwarda Cluga to spektakl na dzisiejsze czasy.

Informacja prasowa organizatorów

Więcej: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/stabat-mater-wieczor-baletowy-cardimclug 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The AULOS Foundation invites you to participate in the 1^st National Instrumental Competition for students of primary and secondary music schools ‘Virtuoso!’, which will take place online on April 17-30, 2023. The deadline for submitting applications is the 5^th of April.

This year's edition is planned online, consisting in delivering recordings. The competition aims to popularize classical music, promoting young artists, creating space for students to present their own artistic personality and raising the level of teaching.

Participants must record two works different in style.

Various age groups apply.

Participants will be assessed by the Jury appointed by the Organizer of the Competition, which will include Polish and foreign lecturers of music universities, instrumentalists, conductors. The jury will select the winners in each category, in each age group.

There are prizes for the winners, including a special prize for the performance of a work by a Polish composer of the 20^th-21^st century, funded by the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC.

Details and rules and regulations available on the website: www.aulos.org.pl/virtuoso 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Polish Chamber Musicians' Association invites you to the 3^rd Easter Chamber Music Festival, which this time will take place at the Palace in Stary Kisielin - Zielona Góra Cultural Center on March 26 - April 4, 2023. The programme of each concert will include Polish music - romantic and the latest. Admission to the events is free.

During this year's edition, performances of artists associated with Zielona Góra are planned, as well as concerts of recognized Polish instrumentalists, including Jakub Jakowicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Marcin Zdunik, Grzegorz Mani. The piano duo Krzysztof Książek and Agnieszka Zahaczewska-Książek, winners of the International Competition of Polish Music, organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance, will perform works by M. Moszkowski, J. Zarębski and S. Rachmaninov. During the concert on the 26^th of March, we will hear Marcin Zdunik's latest Piano Quartet, which was composed as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

From the 26^th of March to the 7^th of April, 2023, the 27^th edition of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival will take place in Warsaw. During the 13 festival days, we will listen to 10 symphonic and 5 chamber concerts, during which many recognized soloists, conductors and ensembles invited by Elżbieta Penderecka , the general director of the Festival, will perform.

The program of concerts was built around the motto of this year's edition – ‘Beethoven - between East and West’, highlighting the problem of the coexistence of cultures of the East and the West in music. In addition to the works of the master from Bonn, we will hear works by, among others, Fryderyk Chopin, Henryk Wieniawski, Witold Lutosławski and Mieczysław Wajnberg. The programme will also include the Polish premiere of the Violin Concerto ‘Genesis’ by Toshio Hosokawa.

The programme of the Festival particularly emphasizes the works of Krzysztof Penderecki, whose 90^th birthday falls this year. On the 29^th of March the third anniversary of Krzysztof Penderecki's death will be celebrated with a chamber concert of his works (the concert will be recorded by TVP Kultura).

Press release

Detailed programme: www.beethoven.org.pl