news

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 16^th of December, 2023 at 6.15 p.m., at the Quality Studio in Konwiktorska 7 street in Warsaw, there will be an open recording session of children's songs "Video score" by Anna Jędrzejewska, performed by students of music schools from Warsaw. Admission is free!

The educational project "Video scores" - a series of miniatures for children - was carried out as part of an artistic scholarship from the Śródmieście District of the Capital City of Warsaw. The series of works for children are film animations that suggestively and intuitively direct people to more abstract music and teach them to listen to atonal musical textures. Work on reading video scores, conversations with children, sensitivity to sonorism and abstract thinking in performance and creative practice are, according to the composer, the most interesting forms of developing the interests of young artists.

The recording session will feature: Wojtek Grzelak (cello), Oliwia Drejewicz (double bass), Tomek Rudolf (piano), Leon Boursin (trumpet). Kamil Kowalski (graphic layout) and Małgorzata Kaznowska-Filipek (animation) will also take part in the event.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 15^th of December, 2023 at 19.00 Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Antonín Dvořák and Johannes Brahms related to traditional dance melodies. What's more, together with the recognized pianist Piotr Sałajczyk, the Philharmonic will premiere Aleksander Nowak's Piano Concerto.

In recent years, the composer has been most eager to explore the area of ​​opera and musical drama, but he also often uses concert forms of various types and sizes written for outstanding soloists. This time we will hear Concerto per mezzo for piano and orchestra, commissioned by the Silesian Philharmonic.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/tance-szymanowski-dvorak-brahms-salajczyk-shemet/ 

Patronat medialny nad sezonem koncertowym 2023 / 2024 Filharmonii Zielonogórskiej sprawuje Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Zwieńczeniem 32. edycji Festiwalu Smyczkowego w Filharmonii Zielonogórskiej będzie koncert zatytułowany „(Il tema) con variazioni" 15 grudnia 2023 o godz. 19.00. Podczas wielkiego finału nie może zabraknąć arcydzieł muzyki wiolinistycznej, a także wielkiej literatury symfonicznej oraz utworu Patrona Filharmonii.

Wystąpią znakomici artyści, a wśród nich skrzypaczka Amelia Maszońska i pianistka Martyna Kubik, zaś Orkiestrę Filharmonii Zielonogórskiej poprowadzi bułgarski dyrygent Vladimir Kiradjiev, wykładowca Uniwersytetu Muzycznego w Wiedniu.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In 2023, 150 years have passed since birth of Witold Maliszewski. His works will be performed on the 15^th of December at 7:00 p.m. at the Opole Philharmonic as part of the "Polish Forgotten Music" series. The Philharmonic Orchestra will be conducted by maestro Przemysław Neumann. Joanna Kędzior (soprano) and Maciej Kułakowski (cello) will perform as soloists.

Thanks to the work of many involved people (including director Przemysław Neumann, score editors, musicians and sound directors), the Orchestra's achievements include a three-CD album presenting Maliszewski's symphonic compositions, and another CD is already in preparation, this time with concert works.

During the December concert we will hear the Princess Basia variations for soprano and orchestra, Op. 33 to words by Janina Gill and Suite for cello and orchestra Op. 20, which (in a later version with piano accompaniment) won second prize at the International Composition Competition. A. de Smith in Paris (1923).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

During the concerts of the 14^th Gdańsk Accordion Music Interpretation Art on December 13-14, 2023, four works by contemporary Polish artists will be premiered, classics of accordion literature will be presented, as well as transcriptions. Admission to the concerts is free!

Composer Prof. Zbigniew Bargielski will be a special guest of the project. On the 13^th of December at 18:00 in the Patio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, his composition Ship of Madmen for accordion and clarinet will be performed for the first time by accordionist Paweł Zagańczyk (organizer of the event) and clarinetist Andrzej Wojciechowski. In addition, ACC 4 by Krzysztof Olczak and Splashes by Zagańczyk himself will be premiered. The concert will be accompanied by visualisations by Marta Prabucka and Kornel Kowalski.

Project website: https://www.facebook.com/AccordionConvention