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The jury of the 12th International Competition for Young Pianists "Artur Rubinstein in memoriam" in Bydgoszcz, after two stages of auditions and final concerts with the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra at the Pomeranian Philharmonic, announced its verdict.

The first prize went to Mateusz Krzyżowski (Poland) – PLN 30,000, financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The winner of the 2nd prize was Vladimir Acimovic (Serbia) – PLN 15,000, financed by the Centre for Artistic Education in Warsaw. The third prize – PLN 9,000, financed by the Bydgoszcz City Hall– went to Hyo Lee (Korea). Financial prizes were awarded to all finalists: 4th prize – PLN 8,000, financed by the Senator of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Kobiak – went to Yonghuan Zhong (China); 5th prize – 6,000 PLN, financed by the Marshal's Office of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship in Toruń – went to Krzysztof Wierciński (Poland); 6th prize – PLN 4,000, financed by Marlena and Waldemar Latoń, owners of Polimex-Profil in Solec Kujawski – went to Mateusz Dubiel (Poland).

The international jury chaired by Ewa Osińska included famous concert pianists: Beata Bilińska, Valentina Igoshina and Ian Hobson. The jury auditioned 29 pianists from 12 countries around the world.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund. Co-financed from the budget of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information: www.konkurs-rubinstein.bydgoszcz.pl 

The concert 'Christmas Carols of the World' is a great proposition for all those who relish the atmosphere of Christmas. This evening we will hear the most captivating carols from different parts of the world as well as classic Christmas and winter compositions. The West Side Sinfonietta and the NFM Choir, conducted by violinists Paweł Maślanka and Marcin Danilewski, will perform on the stage of the National Forum of Music on 28 December 2021 at 7 p.m.

A few days after the traditional Christmas Eve supper, the Christmas mood will also come to the NFM. This will happen thanks to this special concert whose repertoire includes various Christmas carols from different places and times written both in contemplative and vivacious moods. We will hear, among other, Polish carols arranged by Michał Zieliński, Krzysztof Grzeszczak and Jakub Wiktor Kowalewski.

The West Side Sinfonietta will begin the evening with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony in E major KV 16, composed in Chelsea, London. The next piece to be performed is the Symphony in B flat major, originally marked in Mozart’s catalogue as KV 17. The Weihnachtsmusik, intended for a line-up of two violins, cello, accordion and piano, is a unique work by the leading author of dodecaphony. It was composed in December 1921 for the purpose of celebrating Christmas with family and friends. With this piece, Arnold Schönberg once again proved that he is a master of counterpoint. He chose two well-known carols as the chorale basis: the Protestant Es ist ein Ros entsprungen and the Catholic Stille Nacht.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/ 

'Carols, Christmas songs and many more!' is the title of a charity concert that will be held on 6 January 2022 at 7.p.m at the St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

The orchestra composed of students of the Academy of Music in Katowice will present the arrangements of well-known carols as well as works by students of composition: Monika Kozakiewicz, Julia Mazur, Andrzej Mandryka and Maciej Seget. The programme will also include pieces by Vaughan Jones, Hubert Kowalski, Wiktor Lorens, Paweł Mazur, Piotr Pałka and Zbigniew Preisner.

The event is a great opportunity for the music academy students to raise money for the charity organisation "Wspólnota Burego Misia" whose aim is to help disabled people.

The Honorary Patron of the concert is President of Dąbrowa Górnicza – Marcin Bazylak.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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The Prize Winners' Concert of the 2nd International Competition of Polish Music, organised by the National Institute of Music and Dance, will premiere on TVP Kultura on 19 December 2021 at 3.50 p.m.

Masterpieces of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Grażyna Bacewicz, Ludomir Różycki, Wojciech Kilar, Witold Lutosławski, Roman Maciejewski and Miłosz Magin will be performed by excellent pianists and chamber ensembles: Carter Johnson, Ivan Shemchuk, Michał Szymanowski, Książek Piano Duo (Agnieszka Zahaczewska-Książek and Krzysztof Książek), Kwintofonia and Aleksandra Kuls and Marcin Koziak duo.

This year's edition of the Competition was attended by 86 musicians from three continents who competed for a total prize pool of 80,000 EUR in two categories: pianists and chamber ensembles. The participants competed in September on the stage of the Artur Malawski Subcarphatian Philharmonic in Rzeszów.

The competition is organised by the National Institute of Music and Dance in cooperation with the Artur Malawski Subcarphatian Philharmonic in Rzeszów and is funded by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. The event's partner is the Marshal of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. The competition is held under the National Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda. The Competition is a member of the Alink-Argerich Foundation’s piano competitions network.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The Institute of Chamber Music of the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź invites music ensembles to participate in the oldest Polish chamber music competition – the 21st Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition. Auditions will be held on 4-9 April 2022. Applications should be sent by 31 January 2022.

The competition history is over 60 years old. In 1995, it was named after Kiejstut Bacewicz – its initiator, outstanding chamber pianist, teacher, composer, long-time former Rector of the Conservatory of Music in Lodz. Until the fifteenth edition, the competition was an inter-university event for students of Polish and foreign music academies. Since 2007, it has been dedicated to all chamber ensembles that meet the requirements of the regulations – the average age of all members of the ensemble may not exceed 30 on the day of the competition.

The auditions will be held from 4 to 9 April 2022 in the Chamber Hall of the Academy of Music in Łódź. The winners' concert will take place in the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music in Łódź. The competition may be open to the public depending on the pandemic situation in the country. Applications with all the required files should be completed by 31 January 2022.

The 1st round of the Competition will take place in two categories:
• category A – vocal piano duo, instrumental duo (with piano), piano duo
• category B – piano trio, piano quartet, piano quintet.

The best ensembles in each category will be qualified for the second stage auditions, in which they will be classified jointly. The jury includes renowned artist: Urszula Kryger, Michał Drewnowski, Paweł Mazurkiewicz, Pierluigi Destro.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Rules, regulations and more information: https://www.amuz.lodz.pl/en/aktualnosci/2021/155999-the-21st-kiejstut-bacewicz-international-chamber-music-competition-in-lodz 

The premiere of a new composition for marimba, audio-playback and video by the composer Monika Dalach and marimba player Ewelina Hajda Kobiety są | Women are, which was created as part of the Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Łódź, Hanna Zdanowska, will be held online on 20 December 2021 on Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo.

The project concerning perception of a woman’s life draws from the Women of the City of Łódź. Through various art mediums, the artists have created a real, unmanipulated statement about how women perceive themselves and the sourrounding world. More than 20 Łódź residents of all ages were invited to participate in the project: they shared their point of view and life experience, talking about feelings, perception of themselves and their bodies and about the life of women in Poland in the 21st century.

This new multimedia composition is characterized by the search for new sounds and acoustic possibilities of marimba. The acoustic material is extended by electronic and video layers and supplemented by body mapping.

The project is carried out as part of the Mayor of Łódź Artistic Scholarship 2021 and with the support of Adams Percussion.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The Faculty of Composition, Theory of Music and Sound Engineering, the Department of Theory of Music and Composition, and the Department of Sound Engineering of Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz will host an international conference "Composers and Background Music" which will take place on 27-28 April 2022 in a hybrid or fully remote form. The abstract submission deadline ends on 31 December 2021.

Looking at the various forms and application fields of music understood as an art useful to the society, we observe the many problems associated with this subject: composer's workshop, art's functions, values held by the music piece, artistic dilemmas, modern techniques allowing creation of music according to the made assumptions - simulatnously indicate the research subjects which will be discussed during the conference.

To participate in the event one must e-mail the presentation's title and abstract (up to 700 words) before 31 December 2021 to the conferece's scientific chair Barbara Mielcarek-Krzyzanowska, PhD at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Authors whose submissions are accepted will be notified by e-mail. The presentation's duration should not exceed 20 minutes. The conference will be held in Polish and English. Due to the current pandemic situaition, the conference will be held fully remotely or in a hybrid form. The conference organisers foresee to publish the articles presented at the confernece with the publishing house of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

The conference will feature a concert "Divertimenti. Music Not Less Important", which will be held on 27 April 2022 at 7.00 p.m. at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. The programme will include works by Witold Lutosławski and Roman Maciejewski performed by teachers and students of the Academy.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The project "Musique est une femme" of the TAK – Temat Aktualny Kultura Foundation, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, is coming to an end. To sum up the project, the organisers invites you to participate in a survey on the knowledge of women composers and their works, which will be available until 31 December 2021.

Talented women have composed many valuable musical works. Unfortunately, they were always performed much less frequently than the compositions of their colleagues and, as a consequence, they were often unjustly forgotten. The project "Musique est une femme" tried to deal with the consequences of this problem by organising, among others, a video contest. The coordinator of the project is musicologist Marlena Wieczorek, PhD.

The questionnaire on the knowledge about women composers and their works is anonymous. Ten randomly selected participants of the survey will receive CDs with premiere recordings of Isabella Leonarda's works performed by Capella Musicale del Duomo di Novara, with a dedication by the conductor of the ensemble Paola Monicelli.

Link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSea2DnjkFHZwvLA4CHZ--GC87CCDT1bLT2FiSTHpeDk5_Y5RA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More about the project: https://fundacjatak.pl/ 

5^th Seminar of Contemporary Harpsichord Music Cembalo no limits will take place on the 12^th of January 2022 in the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź. The event is co-organized with The Elżbieta Chojnacka Center for Contemporary Harpsichord Music.

Dr hab. Marcin Świątkiewicz (Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice). will present his paper Improvisation in the context of actual music phenomena. Dr Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz (The Elżbieta Chojnacka Center for Contemporary Harpsichord Music) will talk about Elżbieta Chojnacka as a critic of historical performance. Dr hab. Ewa Mrowca (Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź) will have a presentation on Wanda Landowska’s harpsichords. Wojciech Stępień (Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice) will deliver an analysis of his own piece Five Letters to the Beautiful Knight.

Apart from the morning lectures a concert Tales, dedications and other reasons will also take place presenting first performances of Olga Hans’ and Philip Czapłowski’s compositions. We will also be able to hear pieces by Sławomir Kaczorowski, Marcin Świątkiewicz and Wojciech Stępień performed by Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz, Hanna Balcerzak, Ewa Rzetecka - Niewiadomska, Justyna Młynarczyk, Paweł Gusnar, Maciej Bartczak, Marcin Świątkiewicz and harpsichord students of the Łódź Academy of Music.

Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Additional information: https://www.amuz.lodz.pl/pl/koncerty-i-wydarzenia-zapowiedzi/styczen-2022/156392-klawesyn-bez-granic