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The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra invites you to the first concert in the New Year on the 15th of January, 2023 at 18.00. The premiere of the diptych for two flutes and chamber orchestra, Don't Turn! by Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa will be performed.

The soloists will be two well-known flutists: Agata Kielar-Długosz and Łukasz Długosz. Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

After the break, the ensemble conducted by Anna Duczmal-Mróz will perform the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 by Max Bruch arranged by Agnieszka Duczmal. The solo part will be performed by the violinist Krzysztof Jakowicz. We will also hear Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso No. 2 B.84.

Ticket information: www.amadeus.pl 

The Musicologist Section of the Polish Composers' Union invites you to participate in the 52nd Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers' Union ‘Polish Music. Tradition and modernity’, which will be held in Rzeszów-Strzyżów on September 7-9, 2023. Applications should deadline is the 31^st of March (to be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Kinga Fink).

The aim of the conference is to look again at the Polish musical tradition. To what extent are we still moved by the term ‘Polish music’ today and how do we approach native music? What is Polish music and how do we understand it today?

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The second concert as part of the organ inauguration at NOSPR will take place on the 15^th of January, 2023 at 12.00. Julian Gębalski, the organist, who is the author of the concept of the new instrument and acts as an expert in the entire project, will perform. During his recital, he will appear not only as a performer, but also as a composer and improviser.

He will perform his own composition Epitaph for the first time. Other works in the programme of the concert will be Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547 as well as Pièce héroïque by César Franck, I Organ Sonata No. 1 in D minor by Alexandre Guilmant and Litanies JA 119 – the most famous organ work by Jehan Alain.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/julian-gembalski

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Piano Competition for Children and Youth under the Honorary Patronage of Rafał Blechacz is back! The 7th edition will take place on March 25, 2023. We would like to invite young talents from all over Poland to participate!

Over the past years, nearly 200 participants have taken part in the Competition. We have had pianist from Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań, Jelenia Góra, Strzelin, Słupca, Koło, Lipno, Sieradz, Solec Kujawski, Cekcyn, Konin, Chełmża, Toruń, Włocławek, Gdynia, Inowrocław, Białystok, Kraków and Bydgoszcz. An opportunity to expand this list is coming soon, and you, a young pianist, can contribute to it!

Competition auditions in three age groups will be conducted only live in Nakielski Ośrodek Kultury under the supervision of a professional jury:

• 1st group: classes I - II c.6 and class I c.4
• 2nd group: classes III - IV c.6 and class II c.4
• 3rd group: classes V - VI c.6 and classes III - IV c.4

NOTE: We are awaiting for applications until March 1, 2023 only.

Rules and regulation as well as application form available at: https://gmina-naklo.pl/strona-6720-vii_konkurs_pianistyczny_dla_dzieci_i.html

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The inauguration of the NOSPR organs will take place on the 13^th of January 13, 2023 at 19.30. That evening, the newest composition by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Concerto for organ and orchestra, will be performed for the first time, a work co-commissioned by NOSPR and its friends, the best concert halls in Europe.

The solo part will be performed by Iveta Apkalna – a charismatic Latvian organist who, as the first virtuoso of this instrument in the world, was honoured with the prestigious ECHO Klassik award.

Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the orchestra not only in his own composition, but also in two works representing European modernism: the ballet-pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók and Symphony No. 4 by Witold Lutosławski.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/nospr-esa-pekka-salonen-iveta-apkalna-inauguracja-organow-w