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Agata Szymczewska, Łukasz Błaszczyk, Katarzyna Budnik and many other famous performers and educators have joined the Young Arts Kids project. It is a new educational platform implemented under the "Culture on the Web" programme, which give students the opportunity to work remotely on their instrument playing skills with selected teachers from all over Poland.

These days, distance learning is a requirement that brings with it as many challenges as opportunities. Young Arts Kids is a place for virtual meetings of students and instrument teachers. The mission of the project is to facilitate access to music education for all who want to develop their skills under the supervision of famous teachers. "Based on the experience of music school principals, teachers, students and their parents, we have prepared an online tool that will allow students to continue the education process regardless of the situation" - says Bartłomiej Tełewiak, violinist and founder of Young Arts Kids. The Young Arts Foundation, the organizer of the Young Arts Festival in Krosno and international master classes, is responsible for the implementation of the entire project.

The partners of the project are the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Centre for Culture and the Centre for Artistic Education.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The Young Arts Kids platform is available at: www.yakids.pl 

The Polish Society for Contemporary Music and Art Deco Group Music Agency invite you on 24 October 2020 at 11.30 a.m. and 13.30 p.m. to the online broadcast of the last – eighth concert summarizing the online workshops for young musicians "Don't be afraid to improvise!".

The workshops are free of charge and are intended for children learning to sing or play any instruments at music schools or institutions that conduct music classes. During the workshops, children learn about contemporary music and methods of improvisation and they take part in exercises and games that will help them absorb the knowledge more easily. In this project, it is very important to make music together and collaborate in a group, so children participate in classes with their instruments and actively improvise under the guidance of the teachers. This time, we will hear the results of classes conducted by singer and songwriter Iza Kowalewska and multi-instrumentalist and composer Helena Matuszewska.

During the upcoming concert, which will be broadcast live from the Warsaw Quality Studio in cooperation with Rec Audio, everyone will meet live for the first time and make music together.

Co-financed by the National Centre for Culture as part of the "Culture on the Web" programme.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The concert will be available online at: www.artdecogroup.eu and www.facebook.com/adgagencja 

NEO ARTE Synthesizer of Arts is an international festival presenting the most interesting trends in contemporary music and art. It works as a platform connecting artists from various cultural backgrounds and realms of art. The organiser of the Fstival, which will take place on 22-25 October 2020 in Gdańsk, is NeoQuartet ensemble based in Tri-city.

The audience of the 9th edition of NeoArte Synthesizer of Arts Festival will have an opportunity to take part in 10 concerts, 2 art installations and several art performances – all this in just four days. Students of composition will have a chance to take part in composing workshops held by Hanna Kulenty – this-year festival’s Patron and Composer-in-Residence. Each concert is planned as a multidisciplinary spectacle where audience is an active component of artistic process.

During an inauguration of the festival NeoQuartet will present one-hour multimedia spectacle devoted to renowned Polish composer – Hanna Kulenty. Next day, the festival will host Ensemble Mosaik from Berlin – one of the finest contemporary music chamber ensembles in the world and also Swiss duo reConvert presenting an interactive music installation created in collaboration with composer – Fabrizio di Salvo. Third day of NeoArte Synthesizer of Art Festival will include: afternoon concert, art performance, workshops inspired by oeuvres of Alvin Lucier and finally an evening Concert of Premieres with world premieres of compositions written for NeoQuartet by composers from Japan, Russia, and Poland. The last day of the festival will traditionally be a scene of music marathon with an excellent lineup of chamber music ensembles specializing in performance of new music. The ASP foyer in Gdańsk will host: Hashtag Ensemble (Poland), Śniedź Duo (Poland), reConvert (Switzerland), Cikada Ensemble (Norway), Liebchen-Kwiatkowska-Pałosz Trio (Poland) and NeoQuartet in multimedia performance with Gdańsk artist – Piotr Wyrzykowski.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme is available at: www.neoarte.pl 

The Baltic Opera in Gdańsk invites you on 20 October 2020 at 7.00 p.m. to the inauguration of the "Tuesdays on the wave" concert series.

"Tuesdays on the wave" is a series of three meetings with Polish music culture of the interwar period. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland’s Wedding to the Sea, selected artists of the Baltic Opera will present contemporary interpretations of chamber works by Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Grażyna Bacewicz.

In October, November and December, we invite you to chamber concerts in the foyer of the Baltic Opera. It is a space that differs from the stage by blurring the line between performers and the audience. The heritage of Polish composers has left an impact on opera culture around the world. "Tuesdays on the wave" is an attempt to popularize both the output of the interwar period and the skills of artists who undertake its contemporary interpretations.

The "Tuesdays on the Wave" series was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Music" programme carried out by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Information on tickets at: https://operabaltycka.pl/pl 

A cycle of Chain Ensemble concerts entitled "The New Music Scene", presenting important musical achievements from the past few decades, will take place between 20 October and 15 December 2020 in the Nowy Theatre in Warsaw.

Programme of the cycle organized by the Witold Lutosławski Society includes four concerts: "Ró meaning calm", "Travels and 'travels'"," Musica Pura from Austria "and" Renaissance and Baroque today ". We will hear works by composers from all over the world, including pieces by Polish composers: Artur Kroschel, Witold Szalonek and Paweł Mykietyn.

The upcoming concert on 20 October at 7.00 p.m. will feature Fracture by Artur Kroschel, Poco a Poco by Alex Mincek, Ró by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Hot by Fran Donatoni. As the organisers point out, "Peace – not as relaxation – but as fully at-ease focus – is a shared space for the October concert by Chain Ensemble. Careful movement across fragile territory which is the stage of fullness, constantly achieved and destabilised anew. And in addition the brilliance of these semi real, semi magical phenomena emerging from the composers' imaginations means that Ró meaning calm is not just practice at paying attention (vide the notorious notion of mindfulness), but also exciting musical explorations".

More information at: https://nowyteatr.org/pl