news

The organizers of the series "Musical Meetings on the Krzesławickie Hills" join the celebration of the 100th anniversary of regaining independence and invite everyone to a concert entitled "Homeland, I will not forget you", which will take place on October 13, 2018 at 7.30 p.m. in the Divine Mercy Church in Kraków (Na Wzgórzach 1A).

The concert will feature the String Orchestra and the Mixed Choir of the St. Stanislav’s Institution in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the Symphony Orchestra and Choir "Chopiniada" of the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Krakow. These performers have been cooperating with each other for several years as part of the international Erasmus project.

The programme will consists of two historical Hymns – Bogurodzica, which will be heard in the instrumental version, and Gaude Mater Polonia, as well as Feliks Nowowiejski's Ojczyzna for choir and organ. The highlight of the evening will be a joint performance of the Children's Mass by the English composer and conductor John Rutter.

Damijan Močnik, Marek Hampel and Marceli Kolaska will conduct the ensembles. The programme will also include the performances of three soloists: soprano Magdalena Pilarz-Bobrowska, baritone Miha Zupanc Kovač and organist Marek Walczak.

More information at: http://krakownh.pl

The concert on October 14, 2018 at 6 pm, in the headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, will premiere a new composition by Artur Zagajewski.

Święty Boże, Święty Mocny, which Artur Zagajewski dedicated to his wife, was written to the well-known lyrics of Jan Kasprowicz's hymn. The composition was created for the excellent actor, vocalist and director Arkadiusz Jakubik, known, among others, from Wojciech Smarzowski's films. The work is inspired by the music of trashmetal bands, including albums of the Slayer group. Zagajewski's work was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme, operated by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Performed by the Orchestra of New Music under the direction of Szymon Bywalc, we will also hear Belgian and American music. Fremdkörper # 3 by the Belgian composer Stefan Prins was created after the death of Michael Jackson and is a kind of "memoriam" for the King of Pop. The composition ... blood blossoms ... (... blood blossoms ...) by the American composer Ken Ueno was influenced by S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, which suggested to Ueno that "beauty can be found in a medium full of potential power and destruction."

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: http://www.nospr.org.pl

On October 14, 2018, the "Czas Sztuki" Foundation invites you to a concert within  the cycle "Mazovian Musical Meetings Without Barriers", during which the composition of Weronika Ratusińska-Zamuszko will be premiered.

The Foundation organizes a series of seven concerts of classical and jazz music, which will take place in very small towns in the district of Mińsk and Siedlce, where the residents are deprived of cultural offer and access to cultural goods. The concerts take place in churches and cultural centers, which are the only places in this area that gather the majority of the local community. The varied musical programme is adapted to the mentality and needs of the target group.

The third concert of the cycle, entitled "Traditional singing with strings", will take place on Sunday in Żeliszew Podkościelny in a beautiful wooden historic Holy Trinity Church at 12.30 p.m. This event will be exceptional because of the premiere of Weronika Ratusińska-Zamuszko's Agnus Dei for string quartet and traditional voice. The work has been specially composed for this series of concerts. The program will also feature a string quartet in a minimalist style by the composer, as well as folk songs. Vocalist Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska and The Time Quartet will be among the performers.

Admission free!

The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the "Composition Commissions" programme implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

On October 14, November 4 and December 16, 2018, the next edition of a series of chamber concerts in Wilanów will be hosted by the Warsaw Chamber Opera.

The Warsaw Chamber Opera performs a series of concerts in the White Room of the Royal Palace of Jan III Sobieski in Wilanów, during which chamber works as well as special transcriptions of symphonic forms, arias and songs are presented. The music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Dmitri Shostakovich, the Strauss family and the works of outstanding Polish composers are performed. The repertoire naturally fits in with the calendar and coincides with the period of carnival, Lent and Holy Week, the seasons or Warsaw Chamber Opera festivals.

On October 14, there will be a concert entitled "Is there more than one magic flute...", November 4 will feature patriotic and legion songs arranged by Włodzimierz Korcz, and on December 16 we will hear Polish songs by Stanisław Moniuszko and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

More information at: http://operakameralna.pl 

The 6th Wojciech Kilar Contemporary Music Festival will take place on October 13-20, 2018 at the Gorzów Philharmonic.

Wojciech Kilar Festival is a clash of trends, styles and musical aesthetics, presenting different forms and shades of contemporary music. The inaugural concert will be filled with Polish symphonic music of the last century, beginning with a neoclassical Overture for orchestra by Grażyna Bacewicz. This several-minute composition surprises with ease, vitality, dynamics and unconventional instrumentation. Light and colorful in expression is also Symphony concertante No. 4 for piano and orchestra by Karol Szymanowski, which conquered all contemporary Europe. The works will be presented by the Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kraszewski, with Piotr Paleczny as a soloist.

The festival will end with a "Gala of film music" – a meeting with the great American cinema and the work of the most outstanding contemporary composers of this genre. During the final concert we will hear music by Hans Zimmer, John Williams or James Horner, coming from the big-scale productions of recent decades. The Polish accent will be Wojciech Kilar's suite from Coppola's Dracula. The orchestra will be led by Maciej Sztor – one of the best interpreters of American film music written for large symphony orchestra.

The concerts are held under the patronage of the Polish Musical Society as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting performances of Polish music.

More information at: www.festiwalmuzykiwspolczesnej.pl/