- Event date: 2024-05-23
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
During the 53rd 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 24th 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/