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First performance of the ‘Symphony on the 100^th anniversary of Pomerania and Kuyavia rejoining the Motherland’ by Nikola Kołodziejczyk for orchestra and soloists will take place on the 20^th of January 2022 at 7 p.m. in the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. The piece was commissioned by Piotr Całbecki the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Marshal.

Pianist, composer and conductor Nikola Kołodziejczyk won numerous prizes, among others two Fryderyk awards. His works were commissioned and performed by Metropole Orkest, Festiwal Jazztopad, Jazz Orchester Regensburg, Nigel Kennedy Orchestra of Life Strings, Amine et Hamza and Concept Art Orchestra.

In his new Symphony the composer used not only symphonic orchestra instruments but also historical knee fiddles. This very popular in sixteenth century Poland string instrument was almost completely forgotten. Thanks to a prominent instrumentalist and researcher Maria Pomianowska knee fiddles have become of interest again.

Apart from five fiddle players at the concert we will also be able to hear Iwona Kmiecik (soprano), Agnieszka Kiepuszewska (alto), Łukasz Lipski (tenor) and Kacper Malisz (violin). Symphony consists of six movements:  Kujawy, Haller, Morze, Kaszuby, Kopernik, Paderewski.

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Michał Francuz –  versatile and charismatic pianist, chamber musician and pedagogue – will perform on the 20^th of January 2022 at 6.30 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Chamber Philharmonic in Łomża. The concert comes as a co-production of the Philharmonic and National Institute of Music and Dance as part of the Polish Music Scene programme financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

We are going to hear works of composers – educators - artists such as Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Władysław Żeleński and Mieczysław Wajnberg. Michał Francuz is going to bring back the musical jewels of those, at some point neglected, musicians.

The programme of the recital is organized in a chronological order. Two Mazurkas op. 37 and Two Nocturnes op. 24 by Feliks Dobrzyński will be followed by II Sonata op. 20 of Władysław Żeleński whereas Mieczysław Weinberg’s IV Sonata op. 56 will close the concert.

Admission free – entrance tickets to be collected at the Philharmonic office or at the box office one hour before the beginning of the concert.

Additional information: http://www.filharmonia.lomza.pl/ 

Theme of this year’s 10^th edition of the National Undergraduate and Graduate Student Academic Conference ‘Neofonia’ will be ‘Music. Movement. Image.’ The event will take place 19-20 January 2022 at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. Concerts and workshop of body percussion will accompany the conference.

The conference consists of three panels, all being held in the Presidential Hall of the Academy: ‘Image, Visuality’, ‘Intermediality’ and ‘Theater, Dance, Scene Setting’.

During the conference on the 19^th of January at 10 a.m. Dr Bartłomiej Miler invites to a body percussion workshop in the Blue Hall. Enrolment via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. till 16^th of January. Number of places is limited.

On the same day at Aula Nova at 6 p.m. works of Polish Music Academies’ undergraduate and graduate students such as Kamil Polak, Andrej Yakushawa, Miłosz Kędra, Artur Szczepkowski, Grzegorz Uran, Wiktoria Różycka, Magdalena Białecka, Justyna Tobera, Mikołaj Jarczyński, Tymoteusz Lasik, Seweryn Otto, Joanna Czarny and Dawid Dąbrowski will be performed.

The second concert will take place on the 20^th of January at 6 p.m. in the Blue Hall. Elaborated by movement, graphic music pieces of young composers: Barbara Zach, Mikołaj Jarczyński, Bartosz Wolak, Joanna Wilczyńska, Joanna Czarny, Justyna Tobery, Tomasz Ciotucha, Miłosz Kędra i Wiktor Zawistowski will be presented to the audience.

To sign up for both concerts emails to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. should be sent by the 16^th of January 2022.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

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January 29^th 2022 at 6 p.m., the National Philharmonic hall: Wojciech Michniewski’s 75^th birthday symphonic concert.

Wojciech Michniewski is a conductor and composer born on the 4^th of April 1947 in Łódź. He studied conducting with Stanisław Wisłocki, composition with Andrzej Dobrowolski and music theory at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw.

Between 1973 and 1978 Wojciech Michniewski was closely associated with the Warsaw National Philharmonic, first as an assistant-conductor later as permanent staff conductor. Together with Krzysztof Knittel and Elżbieta Sikora he formed the KEW composers’ group, very active in the seventies, creating collective compositions and organizing contemporary music concerts.

In 1974 he received an award in the National Conducting Competition in Katowice. In 1977 he won the 1-st Prize and Gold Medal in the Milan’s La Scala Guido Cantelli international conducting competition; in 1978 – the Bronze Medal in the international Ernest Ansermet conducting competition in Geneva.

Wojciech Michniewski has conducted both – symphonic concerts and opera – in almost all European countries, in Asia, North and South America. Apart from the vast classical repertory he is particularly valued for his interpretations of contemporary music.

In 2005 he received the Award of the Polish Composers’ Union for many years of creative support and presentation of Polish contemporary music. In the same year he received the Polish ‘Merited to Culture Gloria Artis’ medal.

During the concert the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wojciech Michniewski will perform Wojciech Kilar’s ‘Krzesany’, Marcin Błażewicz’s ‘Kali-Yuga’ and Gustav Mahler’s 1^stSymphony. The soloists will by Leszek Lorent (percussion) and Maciej Nerkowski (baritone).

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The concert José Torres & Havana Dreams Symfonicznie will take place in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio on the 15^th of January at 7 p.m.

Cuban musician José Torres is associated with Poland since his studies at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. He is the founder of the first Polish salsa orchestra José Torres y Salsa Tropical and Havana Dreams ensemble comprised of Polish and foreign musicians specialising in Latin-American music. The latter group will perform during the concert which will certainly warm the audience up on a chilly January evening.

Programme features popular pieces by eminent artists from the biggest island in the Caribbean Sea – Cuba. The concept originated from José Torres’s longing for his country of origin. Traditional pieces from the “golden age” of Cuban music remind of its important role on the island including a social one.

The audience will hear love songs by such composers as Beny More, Gonzalo Roig, Adolfo Utrera, Nilo Menendez, Mayito Rivera, Marcelino Guerra or Moises Simons. The programme will also include elements of African-American folklore characteristic for Cuban culture. As a final piece of the concert the band will perform a composition that has become a true emblem of Cuban music receiving the status of a worldwide hit: Guanatanamera by Joseito Fernandez.

Sinfonia Iuventus will be accompanied by José Torres and conducted by Bolivian-born Ruben Silva closely connected with Poland as well.

Piotr Maculewicz

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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