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A presentation of new work by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska in the series “Contemporary chamber miniature in the times of pandemic. First performances” will take place on 10 September 2020 at 12.00 p.m. on the Academy of Music in Poznań's website, Facebook profile and YouTube channel.

As Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska points out, 'A Piece Do A.S. [To G.A.] for viola and harpsichord, or Do Anioła Stróża [To the Guardian Angel], is a musical reflection on the presence of the Guardian Angel in our lives. In particular phases of the miniature of variable character, from motor and figurative to lyrical, calm and muted, various sounds are presented – through single notes to extended chords – sometimes referring to tonality, and sometimes in the form of clusters'. As Padre Pio said: 'The light of the sun was paler than the glow of my Guardian Angel. The whole form of this good spirit shone like lightning, because by nature and grace all heavenly spirits were God's mighty and holy angels'. The piece will be presented by outstanding professors of the Academy: violist Lech Bałaban and harpsichordist Maria Banaszkiewicz-Bryła, head of the Department of Historical Instruments.

The series “Contemporary chamber miniature in the times of pandemic. First performances ” presents premieres of works by composers associated with the Academy of Music in Poznań. On subsequent Thursdays we will hear miniatures composed by the Academy's teachers: Michał Janocha, PhD (17 September), Prof. Artur Kroschel (24 September), and Prof. Zbigniew Kozub (1 October) – the cycle will end on the International Music Day.

Link to the online premiere: https://youtu.be/gTbpfE6E388 

The "Czas Sztuki" Foundation invites you to the next events of this year's "Mazovian Musical Meetings without Barriers". The concerts entitled "Great Polish composers" and "Nature painted with a bow" will take place on 9 September 2020 in Kałuszyn and Cegłów.

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 participating in cultural life. The organization has already conducted two series of concerts "Mazovian Musical Meetings without Barriers" in 2018 and 2019. The third edition of the series will feature 8 concerts, which will take place in very small towns in the counties of Mińsk, Siedlce and Węgrów, where residents are deprived of cultural offer and access to cultural goods.

The concert "Great Polish Composers" will take place next Wednesday at 4.00 p.m. at the Cultural Centre in Kałuszyn. The Time Quartet will perform the most famous works of Polish composers: Stanisław Moniuszko, Fryderyk Chopin, Grażyna Bacewicz, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, as well as Polish folk songs arranged for string quartet.

The concert "Nature painted with a bow", dedicated to seniors, will take place on 9 September at 7.00 p.m. at the Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment Protection in Cegłów. The Time Quartet will perform pieces imitating the sounds of nature composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens, Modest Mussorgski and Edvard Grieg.

The project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund. Free admission!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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

The "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music has been organised by the Polish Composers' Union since 1956. It is a festival of a non-governmental association, but it is international and organised pro publico bono. Each edition has its main theme and all elements of the event gather around it. The theme of this year's Festival, which will run from 18 to 26 September 2020, is "Music and Language".

Music is a language, but language carries its own music. In the Festival’s programme, these two elements will intertwine in various ways, touching upon issues such as: the role of words in music; words embedded in music and music embedded in words; the language of music, the music of language; common elements between music and language; the specificity of structures; the grammar of music, the architecture of text; similar functions; music and information; communication through music; means of transmission; the “speech” of music from the social perspective; art of the time of the plague: home music.

The programme of this year’s Warsaw Autumn includes concerts, performances, sound theatre, various opera formulas, intermedia, improvisations, internet and radio forms (on the 95th anniversary of the Polish Radio), meetings, composer workshops – over 50 festival events. We will listen to music by 50 composers, including 22 making their Warsaw Autumn debut, with 18 world premieres, including Warsaw Autumn commissions. Five orchestras, one choir, ten ensembles, and soloists will perform in the main Festival lineup as well as Warsaw Autumn Hits the Club, Little Warsaw Autumn, Warsaw Autumn Contexts and fringe events. 

Jerzy Kornowicz

More information at: http://www.warszawska-jesien.art.pl/ 

“Subcarphatian Chamber Recitals” is a series of chamber concerts and workshops that will be held between 7 and 26 September 2020 in valuable cultural heritage sites. The idea behind the project is to popularize chamber music, broaden the knowledge of Polish music, support young artists, as well as promote the sights of Subcarpathia – Hupki Manor in Niwiska and Błotnicki Manor in Dzikowiec.

The proposed programme, performed by brilliant artists of the Association of Polish Chamber Musicians, refers to the tradition of manor houses of Polish nobility. The works of outstanding composers, created and performed at the landowners' residences, remind us the beautiful tradition of salon concerts. These are the origins that the project refers to. The assumption is that the repertoire should be ambitious and attractive at the same time, engaging for a multigenerational audience, and presented by the best performers.

Polish music plays an important role in the programme of the event. During the concerts we will hear works by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko, Władysław Żeleński, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Maciej Zimka.

Before the concert of the Zarębski Piano Duo band (19 September in the Błotnicki Manor), which will present popular piano duets for children, there will be an instrument building workshop. The instruments will then be used during the concert to create a musical illustration. The final piano recital "Seeing Music" will be combined with a lecture on synesthesia and a presentation of the author's method of music visualization. The host and performer, Marta Mołodyńska-Wheeler, is a synesthetic herself. She defended her doctoral thesis on this phenomenon at the Academy of Music in Kraków. She was also a star of the Polsat TV programme "Beautiful Brain".

The project is co-financed by the National Centre for Culture as part of the "Culture – Interventions 2020" programme. Admission to all concerts is free.

Detailed programme: https://www.facebook.com/stowarzyszeniekameralistow/ 

The 'Gdańsk Pianists to the City' Festival aims to present to a wider audience pianists associated with Gdańsk, mainly students of the Gdańsk piano school. This year's edition will take place on 7-13 September 2020, featuring five online concerts. The artists will perform at the Old Town Hall in Gdańsk.

We will hear lecturers, graduates and students of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk as well as students of music academies in Bydgoszcz and Kraków, Polish participants of the 18th Chopin Piano Competition and this year's graduates of Gdańsk music schools.

The inaugural concert will feature music by 20th century composers, including Preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sergei Bortkiewicz, and two famous piano cycles – Masks by Karol Szymanowski and Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel. On the second evening there will be two Chopin semi-recitals. The third concert will be performed by this year's piano graduates of the Feliks Nowowiejski Music School in Gdańsk. Saturday evening will open with the semi-recital by Maciej Gański – a recognized Gdańsk musician and lecturer of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. We will hear works by Fryderyk Chopin, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Karol Szymanowski. The second part of the concert will feature Furmańska & Kuchniak Piano Duo based in Gdańsk, who will present works by Juliusz Zarębski, Karol Mikuli and Leopold Godowski. The festival will end with a recital by Piotr Słopecki – an outstanding Polish pianist and lecturer of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

Free live streaming will be available on Facebook pages of the Gdańsk Pianists of the City Festival and Virtuoso Culture and Art Foundation.

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