The 6th International Sfogato Music & Arts Festival,
held in Cracow between 24th September and 2nd December 2015,
marks the 5th anniversary
of the Sfogato Music & Arts Society of Cracow.
The Festival opens with the concert Chopin Soirée: Hommage à Chopin (24th September 2015, 6 pm, “Pod Gruszką” Press Club, 1 Szczepańska St.) – a homage to Fryderyk Chopin for his 205th birth anniversary, presented on the eve of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. The programme includes, apart from music by Chopin, also works inspired by his oeuvre. The 6th “Sfogato” Festival also features the International Sfogato Competition for Works for Bell and Signal, the multimedia projection Light-Shadow, as well as a piano workshop (collaboration with the piano website MartAtelier.co) and the Research Conference Music – Art – Media.
The Polish Music Information Centre is the media patron of the “Sfogato” Festival.
SEE: programme of the Festiwal
More details on www.sfogatofestival.com
Katowice
The names of the winners will be announced at a special gala held on November 11, 2015 in the Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio. The awards are granted in 3 categories: Personality of the Year, Event of the Year and Honorary Award. 
3rd International Symposium "Maria Szymanowska and her times" entitled Talents of Women: myths and reality will take place from 25 to 27 November 2015 at the Paris Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (74, rue Lauriston, Paris 16e) under the honorary patronage of Andrzej Byrt - Polish Ambassador in France. 
Department of Music Education of the Kalisz Branch Campus of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań invites young Polish and foreign composers (age limit: 35 years old) to participate in the composition competition organized on the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of priest Jan Twardowski. 
Between 14th and 28th of November the 
on November 28 at 7:00 pm, led by Michał Maciaszczyk - a conductor and violinist who resides in Vienna. The concert will feature Anton Webern’s Passacaglia, Op. 1 and Richard Strauss’s A Hero’s Life, Op. 40. 
23rd International Chamber Music Festival "Silesian String Quartet and Its Guests", held between November 21 and December 5 in the Chamber Hall of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (November 21 and 25) and the Concert Hall of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (November 29, December 2 and 5), will feature 5 concerts. 
The final concert of the “First Album of Contemporary Music for Young Performers” cycle will take place on November 7, 2015 at 5.00 pm in the Concert Hall of the Karol Szymanowski Music School in Wrocław (25 Piłsudskiego Street).
Another concert of the “Music +” cycle will be held on November 18, 2015 at .7.00 pm in the Youth Culture Centre in Krakow (“House of the Scouts”, 18 Reymonta Street). 
2 concerts of contemporary music entitled A Quartet of Quartets will take place on November 15 in the Fabryka Trzciny Art Center (14 Otwocka Street) and on December 2 in Mediateka Start-Meta in Warsaw (13A Szegedyńska Street). The works present various styles of musical compositions, ranging from sonorism to punctualism.