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Event date: 2024-05-24

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

24^th of May 2024 will see the premiere of a new album by the National Forum of Music and CD Accord, 'Szymanowski' (NFM 89, ACD 315), featuring soprano Iwona Sobotka, the NFM Choir and the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero.

The album, which is entirely devoted to the works of Karol Szymanowski, features the Concert Overture in E major, Op. 12, Symphony No. 3 'Song of the Night', Op. 27, and Songs of the Fairy-tale Princess, Op. 31. Karol Szymanowski arranged only three songs from the cycle for voice and orchestra: Nos. I, II and IV (1933); the other three were arranged by Bruno Dozza (Nos. III, V and VI (2011-2012)

More: https://bilety.nfm.wroclaw.pl/towary/index.html?cat=2 

Event date: 2024-05-24

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

What is eco-acoustics and is it the same as concrete music? The answer to this question will be heard at the “Zajwert / Blaszczak” concert. Audiopaper “Ecoacoustics from behind the window” and wa electrifying sets will sound on the 24^th of May, 2024 at 7 p.m. in Warsaw's Hashtag Lab.

Ecoacoustics is a new branch of acoustics that studies sounds and their relationship to the environment in space and time. Sound becomes both an object of study and a tool for investigating the components of the sound environment: geophony, biophony, anthropophony and technophony. During the upcoming concert, Dorota Błaszczak, who deals with ecoacoustics, will present her field recordings: she created an audiopaper based on them, “Ecoacoustics zza okna”, commissioned by “Glissando” magazine.

Event date: 2024-05-23

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

During the 53^rd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Poznań Music Spring", which will be held at the Poznań Academy of Music on 23-26 May 2024, diverse and stylistically colourful contemporary music will be presented. The festival programme, organized by the Poznań Branch of the Polish Composers' Union and the Music Encounters Foundation, includes 13 world premieres. Admission to all concerts is free!

The festival will be inaugurated by a performance by the Bałaban Family Quartet with guest pianist Krzysztof Sowiński: the artists will premiere works by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Artur Kroschel, Monika Kędziora and Sławomir Czarnecki.

The concert on the 24^th of May, co-organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum, will feature Sophia Goidinger-Koch (violin) and Barbara Riccabona (cello). The "Spring of the Young" concert on the same day will be an opportunity to hear, for the first time, works by students of the composition faculty of the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań: Krystian Klej, Grzegorz Uran and Lidia Wysocka; in addition, we will see the multimedia project 'Soundpainting' performed by students of the class 'New improvisation projects - theory and creative projects', which was created under the supervision of composer Michał Janocha.

Festival website: https://2024.wiosnamuzyczna.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Five premiere performances, including one world premiere, two festivals, special concerts and anniversaries, exceptional artists and more revivals - the theatre is already announcing plans for the coming months. The 2024/2025 season at Poznań Opera will begin at the end of September. After celebrating its return to the stage, it is time to showcase those who make it exist. The 24/25 season will be held under the slogan of Generations emphasising the continuity of the operatic tradition in Poznań.

In 2025, 115 years of the Theatre's existence will have passed, and its history - irrespective of historical turmoil and changes in the name of streets and institutions - continues, playing an important role in the lives of successive artists and audiences.

26 opera and ballet titles will be staged at the Theatre. The performances will be conducted by 11 conductors. Among the guest soloists, apart from Andrzej Filończyk, Randal Bills, Jan Jakub Monowid, Michał Partyka and Krzysztof Bączyk, we will hear Andrzej Dobber ('Rigoletto', 'La Traviata'), Monika Ledzion ('Aida'), Wojtek Gierlach ('The Marriage of Figaro') and Szymon Mechliński.

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Theatre website: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/