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Katowice | New Music Orchestra: First Performances

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The New Music Orchestra will premiere the latest works by Polish composers during the concert on 24 November 2019 at 6 p.m. in the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall in Katowice.

Founded in 1996, the New Music Orchestra is the oldest Polish ensemble specialising in contemporary music performance, with intense activity now spanning over 20 years. Working first under the direction of the ensemble’s founder Aleksander Lasoń, and since 2006 under Artistic Director Szymon Bywalec, the OMN has gradually morphed from a group of enthusiastic students into a professional ensemble able to tackle the most complex scores. The orchestra premiered over 150 works at Polish and international festivals. Since 2014, the OMN runs its own concert cycle at the NOSPR orchestra seat in Katowice. 

The programme of the upcoming concert will include first performances of Marcin Rupociński's  Sensitivity for chamber orchestra and video, Mateusz Ryczek's Cello Concerto (‘Apparitions’), and Aleksander Lasoń's Metta. Sinfonia concertante No. 2 for bassethorn, bass clarinet and chamber orchestra. The works by Marcin Rupociński and Aleksander Lasoń were created as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance. The orchestra will be accompanied by outstanding soloists specializing in contemporary music performance: Roman Widaszek (basethorn), Jadwiga Czarkowska (bass clarinet) and Tomasz Skweres (cello).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information athttps://www.nospr.org.pl/ 

Warszaw | International Organ Concerts 2019

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The Collegiate Church of the Evangelical Reformed Parish in Warsaw cordially invites you to the Evangelical Reformed Church for a cycle of organ recitals on the historic organs of the Schlag und Söhne company from 1900.

This wonderfully renovated historic instrument is used not only during the Sunday liturgy. Its beautiful and warm sound can be admired also during organ recitals, which are held on the fourth Sunday of every month of 2019 at 7.00 p.m. (exceptionally on the third Sunday of December). During the tenth jubilee edition, outstanding musicians from six European countries will perform: Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Italy and Poland. The artistic director of the festival is Michał Markuszewski.

Admission to all concerts is free,

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.festiwal.reformowani.pl

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Warsaw | Concert on the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Mieczysław Weinberg

WajnbergA symphony concert on the 100th anniversary of Mieczysław Wajnberg's birth will take place on 23 November 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Written eighty years ago, Dmitry Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6 is one of the most original pieces in this genre in the composer’s oeuvre. It is also one of the shortest. It lasts a mere half an hour and, similarly to the Second, the Third and subsequently the Ninth, it is blessed with an unusual architecture: a huge Largo followed by two fast movements: Allegro and Presto. The political situation was not conducive to a positive reception of the piece, and Shostakovich was accused of not being sufficiently “committed”. After all, the author of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District had announced that he was working on a grand thanksgiving symphony in honour of Lenin, featuring solo singers and a choir, but of course, he never wrote it. Instead, he composed a monumental fresco in the spirit of Mahler with an almost vulgar and only superficially optimistic finale seemingly artificially tagged on to the end.

In the year that Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 6, twenty-year-old Mieczysław Weinberg graduated in piano from the Warsaw Conservatoire and started composing his first pieces. It was then that he began his flight to the east – first to Minsk and then to Tashkent (where he met Dmitry Shostakovich) and finally to Moscow in 1943, where he settled for good. Of the dozen works he produced for solo instrument and orchestra, it is his Violin Concerto from 1960 that has recently won an influential group of admirers headed by Gidon Kremer keen to promote it in the concert world. One truly indefatigable champion of Weinberg’s music in Poland is Gabriel Chmura, who at this special concert will conduct the four-movement Sinfonietta No. 1 from 1948, a work suffused with Jewish folklore.

Piotr Maculewicz

More information at: http://www.filharmonia.pl/koncerty-i-bilety/repertuar/koncert-symfoniczny227 

Warsaw | Academic and Artistic Conference "Polish Cello Sonata"

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The 1st National Academic and Artistic Conference devoted to Polish Cello Sonata will take place on 23 and 24 November 2019 at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music on the initiative of the Dean of the Instrumental Department, Professor Tomasz Strahl.

The conference’s aim is to familiarize participants with the repertoire of cello sonatas written by Polish composers through the lectures given by outstanding cellists, representing the largest music centers in Poland: Tomasz Strahl, Andrzej Wróbel, Piotr Hausenplas, Tadeusz Samerek, Renata Marzec, Stanisław Firlej, Urszula Marciniec-Mazur. The presentations will be held on Saturday (23 November) from 11 am. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday (24 November) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The second day of the conference will feature a concert at the Henryk Melcer Chamber Hall at 6 p.m. The programme will include the discussed cello sonatas by Fryderyk Chopin, Mieczysław Weinberg, Halina Krzyżanowska and Ludomir Różycki.

Full programme available athttp://www.chopin.edu.pl/pl/2019/10/polska-sonata-wiolonczelowa 

Poznań | 4th "Światłodźwięki" Audiovisual Art Festival

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The 4th edition of the Festival of Audiovisual Art "Światłodźwięki" will take place on 22-24 November 2019 in Poznań, presenting the most important works of the European and native artists which combine visuality and music.

"Światłodźwięki" are concerts, jam sessions, and above all lectures and presentations in Polish and English, during which artists, musicians and scientists will talk about the latest trends in European art and different combinations of art, computer science and architecture. The list of speakers include Florence To – British media artist, Ireneusz Gawlik – programmer from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Slavo Krekovič – musicologist and artist from Slovakia, Lubomir Slovinsky – Slovak designer and digital artist and legendary Thomas Köner from Germany, known among others from recordings of the sounds of Arctic glaciers. The Festival will also feature such Polish artists as Patryk Piłasiewicz and Jarosław Majewski (double bass), Martyna Kabulska and Paweł Ernst (violin), Piotr Mełech (clarinet), Jacek Buhl (drums), Jakub Królikowski (electronics), Jagoda Chalcińska, Barbara Żach and Paweł Krupski (light and projections).

Admision to all festival events is free and does not require prior reservation. The festival is co-financed by the Poznań City Hall.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information atwww.swiatlodzwieki.pl and https://www.facebook.com/

Gdańsk | 1st National Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition

Konkurs Moniuszki

The 1st National Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition for students and graduates of second-degree music schools and academies will take place on 21-24 November 2019 at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

The competition is organised by the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk and the Grand Theater – National Opera on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) – the father of Polish national opera, one of the most important Polish composers. It is one of the most important events of the Polish celebration of the Moniuszko Year 2019. The Director of the competition is Professor Ryszard Minkiewicz, vocal pedagogue at the Faculty of Vocal Music and Vice Rector for Artistic Affairs of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

The competition aims to promote the works of Stanisław Moniuszko, support talented vocalists of the young generation and prepare them for artistic activity. It also supports dissemination of Polish culture, promotion of the Pomeranian Region and Voivodship and exchange of experience. Nearly 50 vocalists from all over Poland applied for the Competition. Young vocalists will be judged by a jury composed of: Prof. Bożena Betley, Prof. Izabela Kłosińska, Prof. Agata Młynarska-Klonowska, Prof. Ryszard Karczykowski and Prof. Piotr Kusiewicz.

The competition is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Admission to all competition events (auditions of the first and second stage, Award Gala, Laureates' Concert) in the Concert Hall in the yellow building of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk is free! In addition, the entire Competition will be broadcast online.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Harmonogram Konkursu jest na bieżąco aktualizowany na: http://konkurswokalny.amuz.gda.pl/harmonogram-konkursu/ 

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Łódź | Unpredictable Sides of the Singers

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During the concert on 22 November 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Artur Rubinstein Łódź Philharmonic, entitled "Unpredictable sides of the singers", the multi-talented choristers of the Łódź Philharmonic will perform not only as singers but also as instrumentalists and composers.

This unusual concert, organised as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Łódź Philharmonic Choir, will feature a premiere of Artur Zagajewski's Madrigal music for 6-voice choir and 6 instruments, as well as Marcin Mielczewski's Magnificat, a selection of Mieczysław Karłowicz's songs arranged by Jakub Kowalewski and Karol Szymanowski's Kurpie songs.

More information athttps://filharmonia.lodz.pl/pl/wydarzenia/koncert-choralny-nieobliczalne-oblicza-chorzystow 

Kraków | Premiere of Marta Ptaszyńska's "Double Concerto"

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Marta Ptaszyńska's Double Concerto for piano, cello and orchestra will be premiered on 22 November 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków.

Double concerto for piano, cello and orchestra is a new four-part piece by Marta Ptaszyńska, Polish composer and percussionist. The solo parts during its premiere will be performed by pianist Marek Szlezer and cellist Jan Kalinowski, who perform as the Cracow Duo. The Strad magazine wrote about the ensemble: “Kalinowski and Szlezer, friends since childhood, have a wonderfully natural rapport and there is an arresting quality to their playing that gives life to the music”. The fascination with Polish music makes them actively engaged in promoting native culture in the country and abroad, presenting to the audience works for cello and piano, including a number of contemporary pieces, written especially for the duo by Polish and foreign artists. A great example is the new work by Marta Ptaszyńska, which was created as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme, implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance.

This evening, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paweł Kapuła will also perform Polish Melodies, Op. 47 Mieczysław Weinberg, a suite inspired by Polish dances, and Symphony No. 5 by Antonín Dvořák.

More information at: http://www.filharmonia.krakow.pl/Home/8525-KONCERT_SYMFONICZNY.html 

Nowa Ruda | The final of the free improvisation workshops for children "Tell me a story" 2019

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This year's last edition of workshops for children oragnised by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music, during which the youngest participants will learn, play and improvise in the company of great musicians and unusual books, will be held on 22 and 23 November 2019 in Nowa Ruda.

The main idea of ​​the project is to trigger graphic-inspired improvisations. Children will create their own stories based on picture books. The improvised fairy tales will be then "translated" into musical language under the guidance of the class leaders. Improvisation is the most basic, primary and joyful form of music performance, which is why the workshops combine children's creativity and imagination with books and contemporary music.In addition to playing with improvisations and books, children will learn various techniques of sound extraction, which expose its color and dynamic values, and will also be able to play drums on their own. The musical guests of the upcoming workshops will be: Izabela Buchowska (cello), Bartosz Smorągiewicz (saxophone) and Jarosław Siwiński (composer). Adventure through improvisation with artists will be led by double-bassist Małgorzata Kołcz.

Participation in the workshops is free, although it requires previous reservation. The workshops for kindergartens and schools will take place on 22 November (groups can be registered by phone 74 872 44 85 or by e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The workshops for children with parents will take place at the Municipal Culture Centre in Nowa Ruda on 23 November: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – children aged 3-5; h. 12:00 p.m. – 13:30 p.m. – children aged 6-8 years (registration of participants by phone 790 395 228 and by e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information athttps://ptmw.art.pl/warsztaty-improwizacji-dla-dzieci-opowiedz-mi-bajke-2/final-warsztatow-improwizacji-dla-dzieci-opowiedz-mi-bajke-2019-nowa-ruda/