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On the 2^nd of May 2022 during a gala at the Warsaw Philharmonic five finalists of this year's edition of the Young Musician of the Year competition organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, TVP Kultura and the National Institute of Music and Dance presented themselves. The winner will represent Poland in July at the jubilee 20th Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Montpellier, France.

The event is a nationwide competition organized every two years and its aim is to promote the best young classical musicians. It is a major media event that promotes the most talented students of secondary music schools and encourages young people to improve their musical skills.

Between the 6^th and 7^th of May 2022 in the Church of St. Catherine in Gdańsk the Laboratory of New Sacred Music Festival 2022 organized by the Polish Chamber Choir will take place. Thanks to the ‘Composing Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance, a piece Regina Coeli of Aleksandra Chmielewska will be performed for the first time.

On the first day of the Festival Stanisław Moryto's Carmina Crucis to the words of 14 poems by Ernest Bryl from the Golgota Jasnogórska volume will be performed. In the first part of the concert on the 7^th of May, the Polish Chamber Choir conducted by Jan Łukaszewski will perform a selection of a cappella pieces by Andrzej Koszewski, who will be celebrating his 100th birthday this year. In the second part of the concert a piece Regina Coeli by Aleksandra Chmielewska for choir, two violins, viola, percussion and oboe will be performed. The piece was commissioned by the Festival.

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On the 6^th of May 2022 at 7.00 p.m. the Metropolis Piano Quartet will perform at the Opole Philharmonic.

Four friends associated with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice and the Academy of Music in Katowice have been linked by their love of chamber music and the need to take up new, artistic challenges. In their interpretation, we will hear works by Alexander Tansman and Johannes Brahms.

Suite-Divertissement for piano quartet of Aleksander Tansman and his Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 2 will be performed at the concert.

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The next three concerts from the series ‘With classics through Poland’ will be held on the 6^th of May at 6.00 p.m. at the Zbigniew Herbert Municipal Cultural Center in Pabianice, on the 7^th of May 7 at 5.00 p.m. at the Municipal Cultural Center in Wiaderna and on the 8^th of May 2022 at 7.00 p.m. at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Krośniewice. Violinist Krzysztof Jakowicz and pianist Robert Morawski will perform.

The aim of the project, which began in the second half of 2019, is to reach smaller centers, cities, towns and villages with music programmes performed by recognized Polish artists: to those audiences who have difficult access to direct contact with classical music. The project ‘With classics through Poland’ is an initiative organized by the Polish Music Management operating as part of the National Institute of Music and Dance with the support of Prof. Piotr Gliński, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

During the upcoming concerts Pieść Roxany (Roxana's Song) from Karol Szymanowski's King Roger opera, Pieśń polska (Polish Song), Dudziarz (Piper), Obertas and Polonez koncertowy (Concert Polonaise) by Henryk Wieniawski as well as works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Fritz Kreisler, Astor Piazzolla and Pablo de Sarasate will be presented to the audience.

Invitations information: https://nimit.pl/wydarzenia/ 

The world-famous pianist - Maestro Piotr Paleczny will receive an honorary doctorate from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. The ceremony will take place on the 5^th of May 2022 at 12.00 in the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music concert hall at Okólnik 2.

Laudation will be given by Maestro Krystian Zimerman and the dean of the Faculty of Instrumental Studies at the University, Prof. Tomasz Strahl. A performance of Professor Paleczny's student, the winner of the 2^nd prize in the last Chopin Competition, Kyōhei Sorita will also take place during the event.

Programme of the concert will include Fryderyk Chopin’s Largo in E flat Major ‘Boże, coś Polskę’ Op. posth, Rondo à la Mazur in F Major Op. 5 and Polonaise in A flat Major Op. 53.

Additional information: https://chopin.edu.pl/