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Jury of the Fr. Prof. Hieronim Feicht Competition 2023 appreciated the high level of submitted works. After careful analysis and discussion, it was unanimously decided to award two prizes and two distinctions!

On the 12^th of March, 2024, a meeting of the Competition Jury was held: Prof. Iwona Lindstedt (chairwoman), Ph.D. Agnieszka Leszczyńska, prof. University of Warsaw, Prof. Teresa Malecka, Dr. Katarzyna Naliwajek, Prof. Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska, Prof. Sławomir Żerańska-Kominek and Prof. Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska, (chairwoman of the ZKP Musicologists' Section).

The winners are:

• Mr. Andrzej Godek
• Mrs. Marta Tabakiernik

Distinctions:

• Mrs. Agnieszka Nowok-Zych
• Mr. Artur Szczerbinin

Congratulations!

The Polish Composers' Union announces the 66th Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers. The competition aims to inspire young artists to refer in various ways to the values present in the works of our Patron. The subject of the 2024 competition is a one-movement piece or a cycle of miniatures in one of two categories: for trumpet and piano, or for solo violin, or for solo viola or solo cello. The deadline for submitting scores is the 30^th of November 2024.

The Competition is open to Polish composers (with Polish citizenship or the Card of the Pole) who are under 35 years of age on the closing date.

The Competition has two stages. In the first stage, the jury will select works to be performed during a public presentation. Its results will be announced by the 28^th of February 2025. The results of the Competition (Stage II) will be announced after the public presentation of the qualified works, in June 2025. The jury, chaired by Marcel Chyrzyński, will then decide on the distribution of prizes.

Scores signed with an alias should be submitted via email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

The competition is organized thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the ZAiKS Authors' Association.

Rules and regulations: https://www.zkp.org.pl/index.php/pl/nasze-dzialania/konkurs-im-bairda 

The 28^th edition of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival will be held in Warsaw on March 17-29, 2024. During 13 festival days, we will listen to 11 symphonic concerts, 2 piano recitals and 2 chamber concerts, during which many outstanding soloists, conductors and ensembles will perform, invited by Elżbieta Penderecka, the general director of the Festival. The concert programme was built around the motto of this year's edition - "Beethoven and the Philosophers".

The 300^th anniversary of Immanuel Kant's birth, celebrated this year, was an inspiration to trace the influence of philosophical thought on music. For this reason, the concert programmes include, among others: works by Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Karol Szymanowski, and in the Wiener Kammersymphonie concert, texts about the music of Arthur Schopenhauer, recited by Franz Tscherny, will accompany the compositions of the master from Bonn.

The festival will be inaugurated by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk with the participation of the world-famous violinist Arabella Steinbacher. In the final concert, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Andrzej Boreyko, will perform Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, Stabat Mater by Francis Poulenc and Stabat Mater by Krzysztof Penderecki.

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More information: http://beethoven.org.pl/festiwal/2024/01/17/28-wielkanocny-festiwal-ludwiga-van-beethovena/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The Baltic Neopolis Orchestra invites you to participate in the Szczecin Classic Academy - masterclasses conducted by outstanding artist-teachers in a unique venue, as part of the 6^th International Szczecin Classic Festival, to be held between the 27^th of April and the 3^rd of May, 2024 in Szczecin. The deadline for application is the 15^th of March.

This year's music course is distinguished by a new artistic concept: the programme includes individual classes with several teachers, classes in chamber groups and rehearsals with a chamber orchestra. In addition, participants will be able to prepare and perform concerts with recognized master-teachers from the most important art schools in Europe.

In addition, lectures on career development strategies and dance classes are scheduled.

Szczecin Classic Academy is a project aimed at pupils, students and graduates of art schools and universities, including instrumentalists (string instrument group) and chamber ensembles (free composition).

Detailed information and rules and regulations available on the website: https://szczecinclassic.pl/faq2-3/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 15^th of March, 2024 at 19.00 Jong-Jie Yin - winner of the Golden Baton of the 11^th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition - will conduct the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, performing works by Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Karol Szymanowski. The soloist of the evening will be Sara Dragan, one of the most promising violinists of the young generation.

The evening will open with the Overture to the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. In the second part of the programme, Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, will be performed by the violinist Sara Dragan, who plays Nicola Amati instrument, dated 1666, which will certainly influence, thanks to the unique sound of this violin, the concert experience.

More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/laureat-xi-miedzynarodowego-konkursu-dyrygentow-im-g-fitelberga-weber-mendelssohn-szymanowski-dragan/