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On the 25th of February 2022 at 7 p.m. the Sudeten Philharmonic Orchestra in Wałbrzych conducted by Agata Zając will perform works of  Feliks Nowowiejski, Jacques Ibert and Johannes Brahms. The concert is co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance as part of the programme ‘Conductor-Resident’ financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Anna Zając completed her Master Studies at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in the class of Prof. Marcin Sompoliński in 2020. She continues her studies at a Doctoral School at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow. She worked with orchestras in Poland and abroad. In the 2020/21 she was a conductor-resident at the Toruń Symphony Orchestra. In the 2021/22 season she is the conductor-resident at the Sudeten Philharmonic.

The programme of the concert will comprise Nowowiejski’s Legenda Bałtyku, Symphony No.4 in E minor by Brahms and Flute Concerto by Ibert.

The soloist will be Hungarian flautist Ildiko Juhasz.

Ticket information: http://www.filharmonia-sudecka.pl/ 

Previously unpublished biographical information, photos and a detailed list of the works by the outstanding composer and accordionist Andrzej Krzanowski (1951-1990) are presented on www.andrzejkrzanowski.pl – a newly launched website in Polish and English.

The monographic website also presents information about awards, premieres, recordings and releases of his works. The website's creator is the composer's Foundation, operating from Czechowice-Dziedzice – the city where this "Chopin of the accordion" worked and created throughout his life.
The website includes: biography, works, media and bibliography. The biographical section includes: a short and long biography (downloadable in pdf), a timeline with unique and previously unpublished photos (selected photos are available for download), a list of awards, dedications and unique works as well as statements by friends, composers and performers. In the part devoted to his works, a short description and a full list of works are available, divided into thematic, chronological and alphabetical catalogs. As part of the description of each composition information is provided on the date and place of the composition, cast, duration, as well as release, available recordings and places where the manuscripts are stored. The whole is complemented by incipits of individual songs and their descriptions in the form of short comments and self-commentaries.
The Media section includes a list of recordings on various media (LP, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, Internet) and a list of other audiovisual materials (e.g. films available on the Internet),
while the bibliography includes magazines, books, scientific works, concert programs, festivals, booklets and reviews.
The website was co-financed by the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport from the Culture Promotion Fund under the Music program implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance and the ZAiKS Authors' Association. The website is adapted to meet the Digital Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications Operated by Public Entities Act requirements. The portal partners are PWM Edition and the Little Academy of Music.

Andrzej Kosowski

Barbaric attack of Putin on Ukraine destroys our world in which culture plays an important role. It’s about human relations, bonds beyond borders, co-operation and frienships.

Our Ukrainian friends with whom we have been exchanging our music experiences for years found themselves in direct danger. We think about You more than ever in these tragic days wishing you survival and getting your normal life back. We think about Igor Shcherbakov - President of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, Bohdan Sehin – director of the ‘Contrasts’ Festival in Lviv and Karmella Tsepkolenko – artistic director of the ‘Two Days and Two Nights’ Festival in Odessa and many more musicians, composers and organisers of music life in Ukraine.

And Ukraine will win, Putin will lose!

Mieczysław Kominek

President of the Polish Composers' Union

Musicians of the National Philharmonic together with Maestra Agnieszka Duczmal deeply moved by the Ukrainian tragedy dedicate concerts of the 25^th and 26^th of February 2002 at 7.30 and 6.00 p.m. to Ukraine and its People in these difficult days.

The orchestra and Choir of the National Philarmonic will perform works by César Franck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The soloists will be Joanne Lunn (soprano), Justyna Ołów (mezzo-soprano), Gwilym Bowen (tenor) and Wojciech Gierlach (bass).

Andrzej Chodkowski, an important figure of Polish musicology, honored member of the Polish Composers’ Union, celebrated his 90^th birthday on the 25^th of February 2022.  He used to be vice president (1969-71 and 1981-85) as well as president of the Polish Composer’s Union (1989-1993).

His main field of work was music history of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. He is the author of the very popular Little Encyclopedia of Music (PWN 1968) and later the Encyclopedia of Music (PWM 1995).

He is also the author of brodcast cycles in the 2^nd Programme of the Polish Radio.

He is remembered by his students at the musicology and theory of music departments at the Warsaw University as well as at the Warsaw Music Academy and at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz.

Ad multos annos, Andrzej!

Mieczysław Kominek

President of the Polish Composers' Union