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On the 18^th of February, 2023 at 19.00 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will perform compositions by legends of Polish music. The soloist of the evening will be the saxophonist Henryk Miśkiewicz, who will perform a piece by Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. The second part will feature the multicolored Symphony No. 1 by Henryk Wars. Sinfonia Iuventus will be conducted by Zbigniew Graca.

Altissimonica by Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski had its premiere in 2000, and was performed by the artist to whom it was dedicated: Henryk Miśkiewicz. And in 2004, the work was released on a well-received album of the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Graca.

Henryk Wars is remembered primarily as one of the precursors of Polish jazz and a master of song. Less is remembered about the ‘serious’ face of Wars. His monumental, colourful, four-part Symphony No. 1 (1949), close to the post-romantic tradition, delights with its changing moods, combining subtle lyricism with rhapsodic and dramatic elements.

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/wroblewski-wars/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The premiere of Aleksandra Garbal's album Kaleidoscope of Views (Acte Préalable Ltd AP0552-53) will take place on the 7^th of February 7, 2023 at 17.00 in the Concert Hall of the State Music School in Strzelce Opolskie. At that time, the album will be distributed in Poland, Germany, France, the Benelux countries, Great Britain, Denmark, Japan and the USA.

Kaleidoscope of Views is a double album containing 21 compositions-improvisations. The album was recorded by the composer in 2022 on a Calisia piano. The piano in the author's concept plays the symbolic role of a neo-Renaissance singer performing madrigals and recitatives. The source of inspiration were the texts of the Old and New Testaments.

The elements that bind the piano cycle together are motifs, neo-modal harmonics referring to the works of French and Italian impressionists, ornamentation and virtuosity as well as timbre.

Information on the publisher's website: https://acteprealable.com/catalogues/composers/ap0552-53/

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Silesian Triptych by Witold Lutosławski will be performed on the 10^th of February, 2023 at 19.00 by Monika Sendrowska (soprano) and the Symphony Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmonic conducted by Yaroslav Shemet.

The Silesian Triptych will take us into the world of beautiful Silesian love songs. We will also hear Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4.

The concert is realized under the patronage of Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting the performance of Polish music.

More about the programme: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/mahler-iv-symfonia-sendrowska-shemet-orkiestra-symfoniczna/

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 11^th Musica Electronica Nova Festival will take place in Wrocław on May 13-21, 2023. This year's edition theme is ‘Kaleidophonia’.

As the director of the Festival, Pierre Jodlowski, emphasizes, ‘We plan to continue some of the projects we started in previous editions: the Akusma Forum dedicated to acoustic music, performance projects, commissions of new music from Polish and foreign composers, projects addressed to younger audiences, and a partnership relationship with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. We want to invite the audience to the diverse paths followed by today's composers, and create a festival that will be a space for free expression and dialogue with the listener.

The programme includes world premieres of Just a little beat by Paweł Hendrich, In broad daylight by Marta Śniady, Garden of Cycles by Mateusz Śmigasiewicz. A separate concert will be devoted to the Wrocław Branch of the Polish Composers' Union.

Detailed programme - on the website https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/festiwale/musica-electronica-nova

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In 2023, the series ‘Stars with Sinfonietta’ returns with the power of two expressive artists who will perform solo parts on the 28^th of February 28 at 19.30 at the Cracow Philharmonic in a concert combining romantic virtuosity with what is the most beautiful in Polish music of the 20^th century.

The programme will include two works by Polish composers: Karol Szymanowski's Etude arranged for string orchestra by Agnieszka Duczmal, and Symphony for string orchestra by Grażyna Bacewicz, which draws on musical traditions in an intriguing way. The programme will be complemented by the virtuosic, early Romantic Double Concerto in D minor, written by fourteen-year-old Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy.

The solo parts of the concert will be performed by the Greek pianist Theodosia Ntokou, who, despite her young age, can already boast of enthusiastically received performances and recordings (including in a duet with Martha Argerich). She will be accompanied by the violinist Sulamita Ślubowska (winner of, among others, the 1^st prize at the 13th International 'Young Paganini' Violin Competition) and Sinfonietta Cracovia conducted by Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak, artistic director of the orchestra.

Press release

More: https://www.sinfonietta.pl/koncerty/theodosia-ntkou-i-sulamita-slubowska

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Thanks to the orchestra parts preserved in the Warsaw Music Society, it was possible to reconstruct the score of the Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11 by Fryderyk Chopin, orchestrated by Adam Münchheimer. For the first time after more than 130 years, a version of Chopin's masterpiece unknown to the contemporary listener will be performed by the Tadeusz Baird and Tymoteusz Bies Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra on the 24^th of February, 2023 at 19.00. During the concert ‘Solidarity with Ukraine’ the orchestra conducted by Rafał Kłoczko will also perform works by Lew Rewucki and Ludomir Różycki.

Chopin's Concerto in E minor in Münchheimer's instrumentation was first performed at the concert inaugurating the summer music festival in Warsaw's Swiss Valley in 1892. The solo part was performed by Aleksander Michałowski – an outstanding Polish pianist, an excellent interpreter of Chopin's music. The version of Chopin's Concerto, enthusiastically received by the audience and critics, was performed several times with the participation of the pianist.

This year we will celebrate the 140^th anniversary of birth and the 65^th anniversary of death of the Young Poland composer Ludomir Różycki. It is a great opportunity to recall this work. Friday's concert will begin with Piéta. On the ashes of Warsaw symphonic picture written in 1940-43. The second part of the concert will feature the Symphony in E major Op. 16 by Lev Revucki, a Ukrainian composer, teacher and music activist. This composition was reconstructed in 2020 and brought from besieged Kiev, thanks to which in March 2022 the Polish audience could hear it for the first time.

Press release

More: http://filharmoniazg.pl/events/solidarni-z-ukraina-koncert-symfoniczny/

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Concert of bassoonist Prof. Katarzyna Zdybel-Nam - accompanied by pianist Szczepan Kończal - will be an excellent opportunity to listen to the bassoon repertoire created mainly in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, and the premiere of compositions for bassoon by Paweł Mykietyn.

Minimalist, virtuosic and requiring great precision Mykietyn's work was commissioned and dedicated to Katarzyna Zdybel-Nam. This evening we will also hear the Sonata for bassoon and piano by the Polish composer Juliusz Łuciuk, who died less than two years ago.

In addition, the programme includes works by Roger Boutry, Robert Schumann, Georg Philipp Telemann and François Devienne.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9679 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The series of symphonic poems Má vlast (My Homeland) by Bedřich Smetana will be performed on the 26^th of February, 2023 at 19.00 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio by Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Martyna Zych.

Each of the six poems refers to a selected place, an episode in the history of the Czech Republic and Czech legends, constituting an extraordinary musical expression of the composer's ardent patriotism. The compositions delight with beauty of the melody, colorful orchestration and suggestive illustrativeness.

Conductor Martyna Zych, who is also a violist of Sinfonia Iuventus, specializes in Czech music.

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/bedrich-smetana-moja-ojczyzna-serce-czech/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Palace in Rybna invites you to the Piano Courses organized as part of the ‘Master and Students’ masterclasses. The event will take place from the 28^th of April to the 3^rd of May, 2023 and is intended for students of music schools of 1st and 2nd degrees as well as for university students. The course programme includes individual lessons, chamber music and sight-reading classes, as well as lectures. The pedagogues of this year's edition are: Agnieszka Kopińska, Anna Czaicka-Jaklewicz, Szczepan Kończal, Łukasz Trepczyński, Maciej Słapiński, and Mateusz Meisner. The registration is open until the 14^th of April, 2023, the number of places is limited.

The Piano Courses prepare for competitions and entrance exams to music schools of 2nd degree and higher education institutions. They are aimed at anyone who wants to develop their skills in playing the piano. Participants of the courses also have the opportunity to participate in the final concert (from which they will receive a professional audio recording) and will be provided with accommodation and meals.

Detailed information about the courses can be found on the Palace in Rybna website https://palacwrybnej.pl/kursy-pianistyczne-28-04-pt-3-05-sr/, as well as on the Facebook page - www.facebook.com/pianistycznerybna.