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On the 13^th of June, 2023, a press conference was held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw announcing the 3^rd International Competition of Polish Music, which will take place from the 2^nd to the 9^th of July at the Artur Malawski Podkarpacie Philharmonic in Rzeszów. The event popularizes less known Polish music of the 19^th and 20^th centuries both among international performers and the audience. The winners of the third edition, in addition to financial prizes worth over EUR 100,000, will also receive many interesting concert proposals.

The conference was attended by: Wanda Zwinogrodzka - Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Paula Lis -Sołoducha - Director of National Institute of Music and Dance, Prof. Marta Wierzbieniec - Director of the Podkarpacka Philharmonic, Lech Dzierżanowski - Deputy Director of the National Institute of Music and Music, and invited journalists.

Honorary Patronage over the Competition was taken by the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda. The competition is financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and of the funds of the Marshal of the Podkarpacie Voivodeship.

At the meeting on the 31^st of May 2023, the Presidium of the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union, awarded two this year's Honorary Awards of the Polish Composers' Union for merits in the promotion of Polish contemporary music.

Tomasz Konieczny received the award for the promotion of Polish songs, in particular the works of Romuald Twardowski, Henryk Czyż and Aleksander Nowak. The outstanding singer, performing on the most important opera stages in the world, does not forget about the Polish repertoire, giving it a new life with his interpretations.

The Kwartludium ensemble was awarded for 20 years of consistent promotion of the latest Polish and world music, documented by dozens of first performances in Poland and abroad.

The award ceremony is planned during the 66^th International Festival of Contemporary Music ‘Warsaw Autumn’ on the 20^th of September 2023.

https://www.zkp.org.pl/index.php/index.php/pl/zkp-aktualnosci 

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The Sfera Harmonii Foundation invites instrumentalists to participate in the Akademia PRO 2023-2024 project implemented by the Hashtag Ensemble. Participation in the PRO Academy is free of charge. Program participants will be selected through an online audition. The deadline for submitting applications is the 15^th of June, 2023.

The PRO Academy is addressed to students and graduates of Polish music academies, as well as professional musicians with no age limit and to foreigners living in Poland who play the following instruments: violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, accordion, percussion.

Rules and regulations - on the website www.hashtaglab.pl  

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The Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk announces a composition competition ‘A work for carillon and two trumpets’. The competition is open to students of composition classes at Polish music academies. The deadline for submitting scores is the 11^th of June, 2023 (23:59).

Subject of the competition is composing a piece for carillon and two trumpets. Duration of the composition: 4 to 6 minutes. Each composer may submit any number of works. Competition works should be submitted anonymously.

The competition will be settled by the end of June 2023. The winning composition will be premiered during the Gdańsk Carillon Festival 2023. In addition, Head of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk funded the main prize of PLN 1,500 gross for the winners of the competition.

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://www.amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/konkurs-kompozytorski-utwor-na-carillon-i-dwie-trabki,1365 

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The 2022/2023 artistic season of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will end with a concert on the 10^th of June at 19.00 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio. It will be a unique concert of 20^th and 21^st century music inspired by the works of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The conductor and soloist will be Stefan Plewniak, a versatile artist known as baroque and contemporary violinist, conductor and music producer.

Ottorino Respighi's Trittico botticelliano is an evocation of three famous paintings by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli from the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Maurice Ravel, writing the piano cycle of six miniatures Le Tombeau de Couperin, referred to the concept of the Baroque suite. In Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed, Max Richter reached for the well-known programme cycle of four concertos by the Italian Baroque master and showed it in a completely new light, using well-known motifs (according to Richter, his version contains about 1/4 of Vivaldi's original material) processed and embedded in new contexts. Zuzanna Całka, who plays the synthesizer, will also perform as a soloist in this piece.

Ticket information: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/respighi-ravel-richter-zakonczenie-sezonu-artystycznego-2022-2023/