The final concert of the 63rd Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers will take place on the 10th of June 2022 at 6.00 p.m. at the Warsaw office of the Polish Music Edition (Aleksander Fredro 8 street). Admission free!
The subject of this year’s competition is a song (or song cycle) for voice and a string quartet to Polish poetry or to texts by William Shakespeare (in the original or in Polish translation). The Competition Jury will be chaired by Agata Zubel.
On the 10th of June the following compositions by selected finalists will be performed:
Hidden monologues for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (Andromeda emblem)
16087 for soprano and string quartet (Geralimos emblem)
Augmented. Diminished for baritone and string quartet (emblem of Heterolepsis)
Sing for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (emblem Palimpsest5991)
The compositions will be presented by: Konrad Derlatka (baritone), Magdalena Pikuła (soprano), Agnieszka Zińczuk (mezzo-soprano) and the Polonica Quartet.
Tadeusz Baird prize is PLN 10,000. In addition, the jury will award two distinctions (hotel and subscription to all concerts of the International Festival of Contemporary Music ‘Warsaw Autumn’) funded by the Polish Composers' Union.
The concert is organized by the Polish Composers' Union in cooperation with the Polish Music Edition from the funds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Music’ programme implementedt by the National Institute of Music and Dance.
The partners are: Society of Authors ZAiKS and the PZU Foundation.
Additional information: https://www.zkp.org.pl/index.php/pl/zkp-wydarzenia/1096-koncert-finalowy-63-konkursu-mlodych-kompozytorow-im-tadeusza-bairda