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The last event as part of the fifth edition of the "Super Sam +1" series of master performances will take place in the DZiK club in Warsaw on 10 December 2020 at 8 p.m. without the audience. The concert of Christian Lillinger and Artur Maćkowiak will be broadcast on YouTube.

"Super" in the title means that the programme will be based on renowned artists – masters. "Sam" (in Polish means "alone", "by himself/herself") refers to the solo performances as well as the creative loneliness. "+ 1" in the title means that each evening will be crowned with a duo performance. In most cases, the artists will meet on stage for the first time. The 2020 edition of “Supersam + 1” will present respected Polish and foreign artists whose work is original, experimental and innovative.

Christian Lillinger is a German avantgarde musician, drummer and composer, graduate of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He was the artist in residence in the Marktgräfle Hof in Basel. Between 2012 and 2013 Christian sat on the board of the Union for German Jazzmusicians (Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker). He was awarded the Internationalen Improvisationswettbewerb Leipzig award and the SWR Jazzpreis. In 2018 he established his own label PLAIST, which has already released four albums. In 2019 he released and performed his project „open form for society“ at the Donaueschingen Musiktage and Berliner Jazzfest.

Musician and performer Artur Maćkowiak plays solo and in bands such as you.Guru, Innercity Ensemble and 5G. He used to be a member of Something Like Elvis and Potty Umbrella. His work oscillates within the wide spectrum of guitar music with a good dose of experiment, electronic, ambient, and improvisation with a characteristic Slavic tone. He released four solo albums: "Take away" (2012), "Before the angels play their trumpets" (2013), "If it’s not real" (2015), "Iconic Rapture" (2017).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://supersam.mozg.pl/ 

The Madrigal Choir of the Legnica Cultural Center under the direction of Dariusz Rzonca invites you on 8 December 2020 at 6.00 p.m. to a concert in memory of Henryk Karliński.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the death of this outstanding citizen of Legnica, the patron of the Legnica Cultural Center. Henryk Karliński devoted himself to popularizing and improving the choral movement. He initiated the Legnica Cantat choir tournament, which turned from a modest Lower Silesian Song Festival into a nationwide event, and is currently one of the most important competitions of this type in Poland. He organized concerts with the participation of eminent musicians, broadened and spread knowledge about the cultural past of Legnica and Lower Silesia. He was particularly interested in the rich collections of Rudolfina – the music library of the princes of Legnica and Brzeg.

During the upcoming concert in memory of Henryk Karliński, the Madrigal Choir will present Stanisław Moryto's Laudate Dominum, works by Matea Flecha el Viejo, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Ola Gjeil, Gioacchin Rossini, John Newton, Victor Paranjoti, as well as Maciej Maleńczuk's I love myself arranged by Marcin Wawruk.

The concert will be broadcast on Legnica Cultural Centre's YouTube channel.

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The Sinfonietta Pomerania Foundation invites you to the 6th "New Waves" Contemporary Music Festival, which will be held online on 3-9 December 2020.

This year's sixth "New Waves" festival was designed to meet today's times – difficult for all of us, especially for artists. The festival concerts were recorded by the invited musicians, taking all precautionary measures, in halls filled with virtual audiences. The results of their work can be viewed on the Internet.

The significantly reduced programme of the festival will include a concert of works by students of composition classes at the Gdańsk Academy of Music, a performance of NeoQuartet, Sinfonietta Pomerania Orchestra and two excellent duos: Łukasz Frant & Joanna Galon-Frant cello-piano duo and Gabriela Szendzielorz-Jungiewicz & Andrzej Jungiewicz piano duo. In addition to the works by 20th-century composers, we will listen to new Polish music, including premieres of compositions by Kamil Kosecki, Anton Koshelev, Olga Rayeva, Piotr Jędrzejczyk, Monika Kędziora, Andrzej Henryk Bączyk, Magdalena Garbecka, Krzysztof Tomasz Jurczak, Piotr Kasiłowski, Magdalena Kurdziel, Szymon Kusior, Jakub Pawlak and Andrzej Dziadek – president of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Composers' Union and president of the Sinfonietta Pomerania Foundation. It was precisely because of the premieres that the organisers decided that the 6th "New Waves" festival should take place on the scheduled date, helping new pieces to appear in public space at the right time, without quarantining in composers' drawers.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

All concerts will be available online at: https://2020.nowefale.pl/ 

The Polish Composers' Union invites you to the 19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music which will run from 19 November to 8 December 2020. Recordings of the concerts will be published on the Facebook page of the Silesian Tribune of Composers, on the YouTube channel of the Polish Composers' Union (Katowice Branch) and on the websites of the co-organizers.

The first concert, performed by the MagDuś Duo (pianist Magdalena Duś and saxophonist Bartłomiej Duś), will feature Przemysław Szczotka's Simbiosis, written especially for the duo, and the premiere of Stanisław Bromboszcz's Monodrama for baritone saxophone and electronics. The programme of the concert entitled "Songs of Silesian Composers", performed by Ewa Biegas (soprano), Maciej Bartczak (baritone), Dagmara Niedziela (piano), Grzegorz Biegas (piano) and Justyna Młynarczyk (viola da gamba ), will include works by Edward Bogusławski, Józef Świder, Tomasz Bauć and Władysława Markiewiczówna as well as the premieres of Adrianna Kubica-Cypek's Sonnets to words by William Shakespeare and Wojciech Stępień's Five Letters to the Beautiful Knight to words by Rambald di Vaqueiras.

Piotr Senkowski's Trois nocturnes pour violon et piano and Marta Kleszcz's Tentativo III will be premiered in December by AdAstra Trio. The final concert will feature premieres of Przemysław Scheller's Dream of a butterfly quartet for piano, vibraphone and two shadows, and Krzysztof Gawlas' Approaching for two pianos, two percussions and electroacoustics.

The project was co-financed under the "Music" programme carried out by the Institute of Music and Dance.

More information at: https://www.facebook.com/slaskatrybunakompozytorow/ 

The first in the series of December online concerts of the Krakow Philharmonic, which will take place on 6 December 2020 at 6.00 p.m., was organized to celebrate the 87th birth anniversary of Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki. During the retransmission on the Philharmonic's YouTube channel, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under the baton of Antoni Wit will perform works by Rafał Janiak, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki, who is no longer among us.

The evening will open with the world premiere of Rafał Janiak's piece with a significant title Postscriptum 8'37 "≈8 (.) 6 ... in memoriam Krzysztof Penderecki. The composer wrote on the score: "Instead of using words, I try to sketch with sound a private portrait ... The score below is a tribute to the Master, which I had the honour to meet personally. It is therefore a "biographical work" in which, like in the cinema, threads from the composer's life are intertwined with the history of his native country. I have included in my piece numerous quotes from his music – some will certainly be immediately readable, while others are deeply processed and camouflaged in the thicket of sounds. 6 seconds – one year in a life –  8'37" – 86 years of precious time for Polish culture..."

The musicians will also perform Krzysztof Penderecki's diploma composition Epitaphium Artur Malawski in memoriam, Symphony No. 6 "Chinese Songs", the choral work O gloriosa Virginum, Agnus Dei composed in response to the passing of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, and the dramatic lament Stabat Mater. We will also listen to Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's Totus Tuus for mixed choir a cappella, which was to be performed during the pope John Paul II’s third pilgrimage to his native country. Górecki’s best-known sacred choral piece will commemorates the tenth anniversary of the composer's passing.

Information on tickets at: http://www.filharmonia.krakow.pl/