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Moldavian violinist Alexandra Conunova as well as the overture and two symphonies will be the highlights of the Opole Philharmonic's "Star Zone" concert series. On the 13^th of May 2022 at 19.00 the Opole Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Michał Klauza will perform works by Andrzej Panufnik, Édouard Lalo and Ludwig van Beethoven.

‘The idea of composing the Heroic Overture, with a triumphant ending, came to my mind in September 1939, when the first attack of the Nazi invaders on Warsaw met with the heroic resistance of the Polish nation’ recalled Andrzej Panufnik years later. In the early 1950s the theme abandoned years before returned to the composer. A few minutes long Heroic Overture was performed for the first time by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Witold Rowicki.

Édouard Lalo wrote his Spanish Symphony with its first performer, the Spanish violin virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate in mind. The work is, in fact, a concert symphony. Beethoven's famous ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3 will be presented in the final part of the concert.

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The third concert of the 2022 concert series ‘Stars with Sinfonietta’ will be the performance of the Orchestra conducted by Lee Reynolds on the 13^th of May 2022 at 19.30 at the Karol Szymanowski Cracow Philharmonic with Ben Goldscheider playing horn as a soloist.

After Ramón Ortze Quero and Josep Vicenta, Sinfonietta Cracovia invites another recognized artist. Lee Reynolds is a winner of the Sky Arts Awards working with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as well as with such renowned orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

The concert’s repertoire will combine various images of the 20th century music namely Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10 by Benjamin Britten, Malcolm Arnold's French Horn Concerto No. 2 and Richard Strauss's Metamorphoses.

The concert was prepared as part of the ‘Musical Bridges’ project connecting Cracow cultural institutions.

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The conference inaugurating the project ‘Polish Music Since 1900. Research Network' will be held online on the 6^th of June 2022 from 6:00 PM. The discussion with the participation of scientists from around the world will be devoted to the study of Polish music from 1900 to the present day.

The organizers announce an online poster session. Proposed topics: music in Poland; Polish musical performance; Polish musicians abroad; music cultures related to Poland; and any other issues that may broaden the view on Polish music.

The conference and discussions will be chaired by James Savage-Hanford, Andrea Bohlman, Beata Bolesławska and Stephen Downes.

Participation is free of charge. You can submit topics for the conference until the end of the month by sending an email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. In response, conference and discussion participants will receive a link to the meeting (Zoom).

You can also follow the group's activities on Twitter (@ PolMus1900).

The Board of the Polish Composers' Union awarded this year's ZKP Honorary Award to Jerzy Maksymiuk for the promotion of Polish music and ZKP Award in the field of music education to Małgorzata Kołcz.

Maestro Jerzy Maksymiuk received the Honorary Award ‘for his tireless, passionate and committed work for the benefit of Polish music’.

The seventh ever Polish Composers' Union Award in the field of music education was awarded to Małgorzata Kołcz ‘for her extraordinary creativity and commitment in shaping the attitudes of future recipients of high culture’.

The award ceremony is planned during the 65th ‘Warsaw Autumn’ International Festival of Contemporary Music at the Szymanowski Hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music on the 21^st of September at Okólnik 2 street.

Between the 12^th and the 20^th of May 2022 Katowice will host the Katowice Kultura Natura Festival, focused this year on the theme of travel.

Music that accompanies distant expeditions will be performed, inspired by the diversity and magnificence of the world. The program will include, among others Symphony No. 9 in E minor ‘From the new world’ by Antonín Dvořák conducted by Marin Alsop, well known to the audience of the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra and Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms performed by Frank Peter Zimmermann. The program will also include Grażyna Bacewicz's Overture for the orchestra. Music of the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus and Songs of Exile, Songs of wisdom by the Armenian Naghash Ensemble will be presented.

Tickets for both symphonic concerts of the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra and for the concerts of the Nagash Ensemble and Whirling Dervishes from Damascus are now available for sale.

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