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Every year Polish music lovers gather at the Summer Festival of the New Town which takes place in the welcoming interiors of St. Jack church in Warsaw in the last days of August.

Included in the programme will be: chamber, solo, vocal, early and orchestral music. This year’s festival is taking place from the 24^th of August to the 2^nd of September and features 6 concerts, which will be held over 2 weeks on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m.

We will hear: Grażyna Bacewicz Quartet, Royal String Quartet’s interpretation of Paweł Szymański’s compositions, Piotr Maszyński’s songs performed by mezzosoprano Lilianna Zalesińska accompanied by Jolanta Pszczółkowska-Pawlik on the piano, young talented saxophonists from NEMESIS quartet. Early music lovers will enjoy the performance of early music ensemble from Cracow Musica Graziosa that will perform a programme entirely consisting of polonaises. We will be able to listen to little-known compositions of Andrzej Nikodemowicz performed by Dominika Falger, the Wiener Symphoniker member and pianist Gajusz Kęska who will perform Henryk Wieniawski’s compositions. The finale of this year’s edition of the Festival will be presented by Warsaw Camerata with Paweł Kos-Nowicki and Marcin Zdunik.

Admission to all concerts is free. Project is co-founded by the Capital City of Warsaw

Festival website: https://www.facebook.com/LetniFestiwalNowegoMiasta 

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The International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra is the only youth orchestra in Poland with an international character, which makes it unique. The team from Szczecin is connected with the National Forum of Music by its patron - Witold Lutosławski, whose 110^th birth anniversary we are celebrating this year. Therefore, the programme of the Wrocław performance on the 24^th of August, 2023 could not miss his music. Probably the most famous piece from the composer's oeuvre will be performed - Concerto for Orchestra.

The concert will be opened by a work of Krzysztof Penderecki, Szczecin Fanfare, which in 2014 sounded during the opening of the new building of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic. The modern building also became the headquarters of ILYO. The fanfare was prepared by Penderecki especially for this occasion. Between the works of two Polish masters, the artists will present the music of Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss.

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More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10309 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

GD->ŁDZ. Electrø-acøustic cøncert is a new project created by two young composers from Gdańsk Jakub Pawlak and Szymon Wieczorek which will be presented at the Ignorantka Club in Łódź (Legionów 22) on the 22^nd of August, 2023 at 20.00.

It is an artistic concept based on three stages of destruction of individual.

Tickets available here: https://goingapp.pl/wydarzenie/gd-ldz-koncertelektroakustyczny/sierpien-2023) and here: (https://empikbilety.pl/wydarzenie/gd-ldzkoncert-elektroakustyczny/sierpien-2023)

Additional information: https://www.facebook.com/events/997036631440040/ 

The thirteenth edition of the Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej award of the Polish music community, organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance, begins. Until the 14^th of September 2023, via the website www.koryfeusz.org.pl, you can submit nominations for the award in the following categories: Personality of the Year, Event of the Year and Honorary Award, as well as in the category Discovery of the Year for debuting artists. Applications can be submitted by people associated with Polish musical life.

The winners in the Personality of the Year, Event of the Year and Honorary Award categories are selected by the Electoral College during a secret ballot. It is composed of rectors of music academies and universities, directors of musicology institutes and music institutes, music journalists, representatives of trade unions and organizations, as well as all winners awarded in all categories so far. The award in the Discovery of the Year category is granted on the basis of an open public vote, which will take place between the 25^th and the 29^th of September at www.koryfeusz.org.pl.

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The Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble and the Association of Young Artists of the Wejherowo Region awarded one 1^st prize to Anna Maria Huszcza and one honorable mention to Daniel Badecki as part of the 3^rd Composition Competition of the ArteFonie Festival. The organizers received over 40 works this year. The compositions were judged by members of the Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble.

The jury decided that the laureate Anna Maria Huszcza would receive a financial award, and her work would be premiered by the Female Chamber Choir in Kościerzyna.

Composers will also receive POLMIC material prizes - CDs issued by the Polish Music Information Centre.

The award ceremony will take place during the final concert of the 3^rd ArteFonie Festival on the 9^th of September in the Church of St. Stanisław Kostka in Wejherowo.

Congratulations!