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On 18 and 27 September 2021 the "Czas Sztuki" Foundation organises educational meetings for children, youth and adults on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of granting municipal rights to the City of Mińsk Mazowiecki as part of the Mińsk County's Art Festival.

The first meeting will take place on 18 September 2021 at 11.00 a.m. at the Municipal Public Library, the second one – on 27 September at 6.00 p.m. in the Piotr Skrzynecki Concert Hall of the Konstanty Ryszard Domagała Municipal Art School in Mińsk Mazowiecki.

The meeting entitled "Nature painted with a bow" will be attended by The Time Quartet. The artists will take the audience on a journey through nature, during which, thanks to beautiful classical compositions, we will visit both Polish forests and the exotic jungle. The programme will include compositions by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko, Dmitri Shostakovich, as well as Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn.

Admission free. Co-financed from the budget of the City of Mińsk Mazowiecki.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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A meeting with the Romanian composer Doina Rotaru will take place on 22 September 2021 at 12 p.m. at the seat of the Polish Composers' Union (27 Old Town Market Place). The partner of the event, organised as part of the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, is the Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw.

Born in 1951, Romanian composer Doina Rotaru has a B.A. and a M.A in composition at the National University of Music in  Bucharest. She studied here between 1970 and 1975  with Tiberiu Olah.  Since 1996 she has been a professor of composition and, since 2008, the head of the composition department at the same University. She has written so far over 100 works that cover almost every musical genre: from solo, chamber, choral to orchestral works, from works that mix instrumental with electronic music to theater music.

Her music has been performed in many concerts and festivals all over the world: Europe, Far-East, Australia, Canada, North and South-America. Some of Doina Rotaru's works have been commissioned by Radio France, Radio Graz, Suntory Hall Tokyo, French Ministry of Culture, Warsaw Autumne festival, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, ensembles and soloists from France, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Switzerland. Doina Rotaru was awarded prizes by the Romanian Academy (Bucharest,1996) and the Romanian Composers' Association (1981, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2004 and 2007). For her 2nd Symphony, she’s won in 1994  the first prize at the Gedok - Mannheim International Competition (Germany).

The meeting (in Polish and in English) will be conducted by an expert in contemporary music – musicologist Krzysztof Kwiatkowski. It will be also attended by Mieczysław Kominek – President of the Polish Composers' Union, Jerzy Kornowicz – Director of the "Warsaw Autumn" Festival, and the musicians who will perform Doina Rotaru's anniversary concert the following day, on 23 September at 5 p.m. at the State Music School Complex No. 1 in Warsaw.

Admission to the events is free!

Programme details: https://warszawska-jesien.art.pl/en/2021/programme/programme

The Reed Connection ensemble will perform on 19 September 2021 at 3.00 p.m. at the House of Creative Work "Reymontówka" in Chlewiska near Siedlce as part of the 4th Mazovian Musical Meetings without Barriers.

The "Czas Sztuki" Foundation was established in November 2017 and one of its main goals is to organise free artistic events for poor people from small rural towns, who are excluded from participation in cultural life. This year, thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport, the "Mazovian Music Meetings without Barriers" will be held for the fourth time.

The Reed Connection trio is made up of soloists from the Zielona Góra Philharmonic: oboe player Michał Mogiła, clarinet player Jarosław Podsiadlik and bassoon player Rafał Dołęga. The programme of the concert will include masterpieces of classical music, as well as film and popular music. We will hear works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Henri Tomasi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Gershwin, Leo Delibes, Claude Debussy and Carlos Gardel.

Admission is free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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With a concert entitled "In the Rhythm of Tango", the Toruń Symphony Orchestra returns to the long-term project "Great Composers – Great Anniversaries". The event on 19 September 2021 at 5 p.m. in the Chamber Hall of CKK Jordanki will celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of the outstanding Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla. The project is also a part of the celebration of the European Funds Open Days.

"Great Composers – Great Anniversaries" is a Toruń Symphony Orchestra's project to commemorate artists who celebrate important anniversaries in 2021. It is a series of 12 events featuring symphonic and chamber concerts, recitals, a poster exhibition, film screening and a lecture.

Today, Astor Piazzolla's name is synonymous with a transformed tango, combined with elements of jazz and classical music – nuevo tango, which, instead of living in taverns, has found its place in concert halls. During the concert in Toruń, Ulla Saxophone Trio, Martyna Ciok-Rycak (vocal) and Michał Bator (drums) will perform Yo Soy from the opera Maria de Buenos Aires, Cuatro estaciones porteñas (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires), Adiós Nonino – one of the most beautiful compositions by the master of tango nuevo, dedicated to the memory of the artist's father, Vicente Piazzolla, and the famous Libertango. Different faces of nuevo tango reveal to the audience other compositions by the master of bandoneon: Oblivion and Tanti Anni Prima from the film Henry IV directed by Marco Bellocchio as well as Escualo and Fuga y misterio.

The event will take place in a hybrid form: both with the participation of the audience in the CKK Jordanki Chamber Hall, and in the form of livestreaming on the Toruń Symphony Orchestra YouTube channel. Free tickets to be collected at the CKK Jordanki ticket office.

Co-financed in the "Music" programme carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information: https://tos.art.pl/wydarzenia/w-rytmie-tanga 

The fourth concert of the Mińsk County's Art Festival, organised by the "Czas Sztuki" Foundation, will take place at the Municipal Cultural Centre in Mińsk Mazowiecki on 19 September 2021 at 7.00 p.m.

The concert will feature Reed Connection, an ensemble composed of the soloists of the Zielona Góra Philharmonic: oboist Michał Mogiła, clarinetist Jarosław Podsiadlik and bassoonist Rafał Dołęga. The programme will include masterpieces of classical music, as well as film and popular music. We will hear works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Henri Tomasi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Gershwin and Leo Delibes.

The Mińsk County's Art Festival features 13 artistic events in each of the thirteen municipalities of the Mińsk County. The festival combines many fields of art: classical music concerts, educational music workshops for seniors and children, as well as music and poetry meetings commemorating outstanding Polish poets and their work. The concerts will feature excellent artists: Mateusz Szemraj, Adeb Chamoun, Olga Bończyk, Mischa Kozłowski, Agata Barwinek-Bembinow, Tango Fuerte, Reed Connection, Maciej Bator, Katarzyna Wiwer, Maksymilian Grzesiak, Katarzyna Boniecka, Rafał Łuc, The Time Quartet.

Admission to all festival events is free!

Co-financed from the budget of the Mińsk Poviat and the Mazowieckie Voivodeship. Financed by the PZU Foundation.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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