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The 12th edition of the EURO Chamber Music Festival will not lack what has been so far: master chamber music, young talents, a wide spectrum of concert repertoire, extraordinary events, and finally interesting, original projects dedicated to great figures of world culture. The festival will take place in Gdańsk from June 21 to July 9, 2023.

This year's edition of the project will include, among others: winner of the 15^th International Henryk Wieniawski Veriko Tchumburidze & Friends, Włodek Pawlik - the only winner of the Grammy Award of Polish jazz (June 23, ‘Jazz gift for Father's Day’), the Orchestra of the Baltic Opera in a chamber setup conducted by Trajan Muryń, as well as recognized artists from Poland, France, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Italy, Israel.

Detailed programme: www.eurochambermusicfestival.com 

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The heavenly voice of one of the best singers of our time has won multiple Grammys. On the 18^th of June, 2023 at 18.00 we will have a unique opportunity to experience the beauty of Joyce DiDonato's mezzo-soprano and participate in a truly heavenly show called Eden, which combines works by composers from around the world, movement and theater - hailed by critics as ‘iconic’ and ‘groundbreaking’.

Eden is a show of Joyce DiDonato's skills refined to the smallest detail. Spanning four centuries of music - from Gluck, Handel and Cavalli to Mahler, Ives and a new commissioned piece by Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman - Eden is a fiery declaration of hope that celebrates the majesty, power and mystery of Nature through the unifying and transforming power of music.

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More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/eden 

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The Technopera project is a multimedia event combining techno culture and opera, carried out in the post-industrial space of the former Gdańsk Shipyard. The premiere of this unique spectacle created with the help of artificial intelligence will take place on the 17^th of June, 2023 at 19.00 at the WL4 Mleczny Piotr Gallery in Gdańsk.

Technopera is based on a libretto by Podletz (Artur Kozdrowski) and Peter Style (Piotr Wyrzykowski). It consists of audiovisual samples from popular science and science fiction films arranged in the form of a dialogue between the characters of the opera. The libretto played live by a VJ provides a choreographic and dramatic reference point for actors and musicians.

Artists who co-created the group C.U.K.T. are involved in the implementation of Technopera. The director and author of the visual layer is Piotr Wyrzykowski, the character of the Man will be played by Mikołaj Robert Jurkowski. Other artists taking part in the project are the artists from the Tri-City, also well known to the Polish and international audience. The creator of electronic music Michał Jacaszek will prepare the electronic layer of the opera, and NeoQuartet with its electric instruments will be his partner in creating the entire audio sphere of the event. The cast of Technopera is completed by soprano and performer Aleksandra Klimczak. The other characters of the opera Alien, Machine and Cyborg will be generated with the help of artificial intelligence.

Additional information: https://neoarte.pl/technopera/ 

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Symphonic concert closing the 71^st artistic season of the Opole Philharmonic will take place at 19.00. The whole event will be conducted by the director of the Philharmonic, Przemysław Neumann, and Jakub Kuszlik - the best Polish pianist of the 18^th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw - will perform as a soloist.

The artists will perform Fryderyk Chopin's Piano Concerto in E minor. Among the comic operas by Richard Strauss, the most famous is Der Rosenkavalier, or The Knight of the Rose. In the interpretation of the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra we will hear a suite from this opera.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/zakonczenie-71-sezonu-artystycznego/ 

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Hashtag Ensemble will present the project ‘Introverts'Collective’, on the 15^th of June, 2023 at 19.00 in their new place. The event will be a concert by Rafał Zapała with the participation of the composer himself.

The concert is also an attempt to depart from the linearity of the musical course, to exploit the possibilities of ubiquitous technology to go beyond the stereotypical interaction of musicians and the audience and enter a situation of truly partner dialogue, horizontality of communication and openness to the unpredictable.

‘Introverts' Collective’ is the result of the Fulbright scholarship (Fulbright Senior Award 2021), and the programme of the evening consists of four pieces from the years 2018-2021: Futility, Judge Me Again, Scrolling to Zero and a composition created especially for this project, from which the whole was named: Introverts' Collective.

After the concert, there will be a meeting with the composer, led by Piotr Tkacz-Bielewicz.

More: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/introverts-collective/