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III Edycja Programu „Muzyka Naszych Czasów”

Stowarzyszenie Akademia Imienia Krzysztofa Pendereckiego – Międzynarodowe Centrum Muzyki oraz Europejskie Centrum Muzyki Krzysztofa Pendereckiego zapraszają kompozytorów do udziału w III Edycji Programu „Muzyka Naszych Czasów”, która realizowana będzie od jesieni 2018 do zimy 2019 roku.

III Edycja Programu otwarta jest dla kompozytorów narodowości polskiej urodzonych po 1.01.1988 roku (również dla uczestników I i II Edycji Programu). Przedmiotem jest utwór kameralny przeznaczony na 1 do 5 (od solo do kwintetu) spośród poniższych instrumentów:

skrzypce, altówka, wiolonczela, kontrabas, fortepian, flet, klarnet, saksofon (altowy, tenorowy lub barytonowy), fagot, trąbka, waltornia, puzon, perkusja (multiperkusja i/lub marimba), akordeon.

Nadsyłać można jedynie utwory do tej pory niewykonywane. Można też nadesłać więcej niż jedną kompozycję. Czas trwania utworu nie powinien przekroczyć 6 minut. Preferowane będą utwory na instrument solowy. Utwór może wykorzystywać rozszerzone techniki kompozytorskie w podstawowym stopniu, ale jednak należy uwzględniać możliwości uczniów szkół muzycznych II stopnia.

Utwory należy nadsyłać drogą mailową (w formacie PDF) na adres: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Termin nadsyłania kompozycji upływa 15 listopada 2018 roku.

Wyboru utworów dokonają twórca Programu Adrianna Poniecka-Piekutowska, dr hab. Dariusz Przybylski i dr Ignacy Zalewski – kuratorzy Programu.

Wybrane utwory zostaną prawykonane w Europejskim Centrum Muzyki Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Lusławicach w ramach koncertu Scena Prezentacji Programu „Muzyka Naszych Czasów”, a następnie wykonane 12 razy przez uczniów i studentów szkół i uczelni biorących udział w Programie.

Szczegółowe informacje – na stronie http://muzykanaszychczasow.pl/

Independence Cantata „..only truth and memory!” in Porąbka Uszewska and Borzęcin

The Independence Cantata „..only truth and memory!” will be performed on November 4, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. in the Saint Andrew the Apostole Church in Porąbka Uszewska and on November 11, 2018 at 5.30 p.m. in the Communal Cultural Center in Borzęcin.

The composition will be presented by the Crushed Sounds BigBand Youth Orchestra, soloists and reciters under the direction of Dariusz Swoszowski. The soloists will be: Izabela Sacha, Kinga Gurgul, Anna Sowa-Gurgul, Agnieszka Myrlak, Karolina Płaneta. The cantata consists of 17 different parts, featuring selected patriotic poems and songs arranged by Dariusz Swoszowski. The author of the libretto is Agnieszka Sowa. Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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Tomasz Konieczny on the TVP Kultura "Classic Stage"

On November 1, 2018 at 12:10 a.m. TVP Kultura invites you to the premiere episode of "Classic Stage", featuring the acclaimed bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny in the classical and modern repertoire.

Tomasz Konieczny – opera singer, film and theater actor – is currently one of the leading bass-baritons in the world. He has been singing in the Vienna Staatsoper for over ten years. In July 2018 he appeared as the first Pole at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and in March 2019 he will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

The singer will appear on TVP Kultura in the company of pianist Lech Napierała. The musicians will perform Modest Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death composed in 1875-77 and Three Sonnets to Don Quixote by Romuald Twardowski from 1990.

Tomasz Konieczny is already known to TVP Kultura viewers, who have seen him before, among others in Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion, performed at the 15th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. It will be rebroadcast on November 16, 2018 at 12:40 p.m..

Jubilee Concert of the Cracow Wind Quintet

A jubilee concert of the Cracow Wind Quintet will take place on October 30, 2018 at 7.00 p.m. in the "Florianka" Auditorium of the Music Academy in Krakow.

The ensemble, founded in 1998 by oboist Marek Mleczko, clarinettist Roman Widaszek, bassist Paweł Solecki, flautist Katarzyna Kurowska-Mleczko and French horn player Tadeusz Tomaszewski, will celebrate its 20th anniversary with excellent guests: Beata Bilińska (piano) and Paweł Gusnar (saxophone). The programme of the concert will include works by Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Alexander Zemlinsky as well as pieces by Polish composers: Cantabile in h by Krzesimir Dębski and Burlesca by Mikołaj Górecki.

Warsaw | "Te Deum Polonia" Special Concert

On October 30, 2018 at 8:00 p.m., Teatr Wielki – National Opera will host a ceremonial concert at which the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence. The concert will premiere Paweł Łukaszewski's Te Deum Polonia.

The members of the Government, Parliament, Senate, the Diplomatic Corps, representatives of the world of culture as well as state and national institutions will take part in the solemn concert. The President's guests during this evening will also include students showing special artistic achievements, as well as children and teenagers from dozens of schools from all over Poland bearing the name of Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

The Choir and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera under the direction of Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski will premiere a new piece by Paweł Łukaszewski, specially commissioned for the occasion by the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda. Te Deum Polonia for bass, choir and orchestra express gratitude, glory and joy. Wojciech Gierlach will perform as soloist. The programme of the evening will also includ Polish Fantasy in G sharp minor for piano and orchestra by Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The piano part will be performed by Julia Kociuban.

The concert will be broadcast online by the Polish Radio programme 2; retransmission – on the website of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland and Polish Radio as well as on TVP1 at 9.00 p.m. and TV Polonia at 11.00 p.m.

More information at: https://teatrwielki.pl

Warsaw | Vortex Temporum

Witold Lutosławski Society invites you to the next concert in the cycle "New Music Stage – a series of concerts in Nowy Teatr", which will take place on October 30, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.

The programme will include Gérard Grisey's Vortex temporum, one of the musical classics of recent decades, and Witold Lutosławski's music for the play of A. de Musset On ne badine pas avec l’amour for flute. The work was commissioned in 1953 by Tadeusz Byrski, director of the theaters in Kielce and Poznań, and was long considered missing. The piece was found only in 2013. It will be performed by Chain Ensemble under the direction of Andrzej Bauer.

Information on tickets at: http://www.nowyteatr.org/

Warsaw | 5th International Festival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Between October 30 and November 28, 2018, the 5th International Festival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski will take place in Warsaw as part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence.

Paderewski spent his youth in the capital and returned to Warsaw many times, not only as a pianist and composer, but also as an eminent politician, philanthropist and patriot. The festival concerts are planned in the most important concert halls of the capital: at the National Philharmonic, the Royal Łazienki Park, the Royal Castle and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

The event will feature many outstanding Polish and foreign artists and orchestras, such as Jerzy Maksymiuk with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vadim Brodski, Peter Jablonski, Eduard Kunz and Motion Trio. In their performance, we will hear works of the patron of the Festival, as well as compositions by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Wojciech Kilara, Witolda Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Zygmunt Stojowski, Karol Szymanowski and others.

The inauguration concert "Capital of Freedom" will take place at the National Philharmonic on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of regaining independence. The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jerzy Maksymiuk will perform Paderewski's Symphony in B minor. On the day of Paderewski's birthday, November 6, a "Birthday Concert" will be held at the National Philharmonic, during which Peter Jablonski will perform Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17, and Eduard Kunz will play Polish Fantasia, Op.19. The musicians will be led by Marzena Diakun.

The festival will also include documentary screenings and an exhibition, showing Paderewski from a slightly different side.

Full programme available at: http://www.avearte.pl/

Kraków | "Penderecki 85"

On October 30, 2018 at 7.30 pm, the St. Catherine's Church in Kraków will host a concert on the occasion of Krzysztof Penderecki's jubilee and the 100th anniversary of regaining independence.

Krzysztof Penderecki ‒ one of the most famous and most distinguished contemporary music composers, celebrates his 85th birthday this year. The artist has many connections with Kraków ‒ as a rector and later professor at the Kraków Academy of Music, doctor honoris causa of the Jagiellonian University, member of the Social Committee for the Restoration of Krakow's Monuments, Honorary Citizen of the City of Krakow and Chairman of the Artistic and Programme Council of the Royal Orchestra of the City of Krakow Sinfonietta Cracovia.

On October 30 in the the St. Catherine's Church, Krzysztof Penderecki's Te Deum will be performed by Sinfonietta Cracovia under the baton of its director Jurek Dybał along with excellent soloists, the Cracow Singers vocal ensemble and the Armenian Hover Chamber Choir. Te Deum is a joyful, celebratory composition written by Penderecki in honor of the newly elected Polish Pope, John Paul II. Historical inspiration of this sublime and endearing work, completed just a few weeks before the events of August 1980, is the starting point for the celebration of another holiday: the 100th anniversary of the liberation of Krakow, which ‒ as the first Polish city ‒ regained its independence on October 31, 1918.

Concert in the St. Catherine's Church is open to the residents of Krakow and guests. Free entry cards are available at two InfoKraków points ‒ 2 St. Jan Street and in the Wyspiański Pavilion. You can also make an online booking by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://sinfonietta.pl/

Warsaw | Piotr Beczała's recital at the Teatr Wielki –National Opera

A recital by Piotr Beczała will take place on October 28, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera.

The hottest name among lyrical tenors in the world. In 2018 he was awarded an operatic Oscar – the International Opera Award for the best male singer. For years he has been performing the most important tenor parts at the Metropolitan Opera and the Wiener Staatsoper. Yet another, after Jan Kiepura, ‘boy from Silesia’ who easily wins over subsequent operatic stages of the world with his singing and acting. His success is compared to Luciano Pavarotti’s career, and Piotr Beczała is often called his successor. He rarely sings in Poland, which is why a lieder recital accompanied at the piano by Helmut Deutsch is one of few occasions to listen to the master.

The programme will include works by Stefano Donaudy, Ermano Wolf-Ferrari, Ottorino Respighi, and Francesco Paolo Tosti. The second part will be devoted entirely to Polish music. We will hear Six Songs, Op. 2 by Karol Szymanowski, songs by Mieczysław Karłowicz (Czasem, gdy długo na pół sennie marzę; Na spokojnym ciemnym morzu; Rdzawe liście; W wieczorną ciszę; Zasmuconej; Przed nocą wieczną; Zaczarowana królewna) and Stanisław Moniuszko (Dwie zorze, Prząśniczka, Polna różyczka, Krakowiaczek ci ja).