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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.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

More info: www.nospr.org.pl  

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 9th International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition will take place between the 12^th and 15^th of May 2022 at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. Admission to the auditions and the Laureates' Concert is free. All competition events will also be broadcast on the Academy’s YouTube channel.

The International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk is currently one of the largest and most noteworthy chamber music competitions in Poland. From the very beginning its organizer is the Department of Chamber Music at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. The competition is under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the International Society of Johannes Brahms in Hamburg.

Details of the Competition: https://acmf.amuz.gda.pl/icmc and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/brahms.competition.gdansk 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 11^th of May 2022 at 7.30 p.m. a concert of the organist Sławomir Kamiński will take place. The programme of the concert will include works by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Max Reger and Feliks Nowowiejski.

The concert will begin with Johannes Brahms' Prelude and Fugue in A minor, the result of the composer's studies of counterpoint and early music. It will precede the composition of Robert Schumann Mit innigem Ausdruck from the collection Sechs Stücke in kanonischer Form Op. 56.

A chorale from the Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le „Veni Creator” op. 4. of Maurice Duruflé will close the concert.

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/8913 

The programme of the 14th edition of the KODY Festival of Music Tradition and Avant-garde, which will be held on 11-15 May 2022, comprises of eleven concerts, including seven world premieres, one Polish premiere, workshops and an exhibition of music scores. The 14th KODY Festival will focus on the slogan 'Codes in a square. Multiplication'.

KODY is a meeting place for the interpenetration of the entire spectrum of musical traditions, schools, techniques - and most importantly - the past and the present. The result of these connections is new music. This year premieres of works by Jacek Sotomski, Piotr Damasiewicz, Sławomir Wojciechowski, Marta Śniada, Piotr Tabakiernik and Mats Gustafsson will take place.

Recognized artists from Poland and abroad will perform during the Festival, including Ernst Reijseger, Mats Gustafsson from ENSEMBLE E, Joanna Freszel, Szymon Bywalec, Ewa Liebchen, Adam Kośmieja, Mikołaj Pałosz. Emilia Sitarz, Maniucha Bikont, Maciej Frąckiewicz and Rafał Łuc.

Most of the events are free and tickets can be collected at the organizer's office and at evenea.pl.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the 'Music' programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Detailed programme: www.kody-festiwal.pl 

On the 11^th of May 2022 at 6.00 p.m. a monographic concert of the composer Alina Kubik will take place. The concert is organized as part of the 6th International Viola Forum in Aula Nova of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań.

Artists, mainly associated with the Poznań Academy, will perform five world premieres. The choral pieces to the words by Michał Wieczorek and Dominik Górny were written especially for the recently created Chamber Choir of the Lubrański Academy in Poznań, conducted by Kasjan Drogosz.

Works by Alina Kubik will be performed by, among others, Julia Mróz, Aleksandra Kamińska-Rykowska, Maria Rutkowska, Miłosz Lewandowski, Paulina Maciaszczyk, Wolfgang Maciaszczyk and Dominik Górny.
Dominik Górny's poetry devoted to Ignacy Jan Padrewski will also be performed during the event.

Detailed programme: https://amuz.edu.pl/event/vi-miedzynarodowe-forum-altowkowe-koncert-monograficzny-dr-aliny-kubik-11-05-2022/