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The Polish Choral Grand Prix in 2023 will be held for the fifth time, on November 24-26 in Poznań (main events).

This year's main theme is Polish folk music. The event will be inaugurated with a concert with the participation of the OSTY band, the Poznań Chamber Choir conducted by Bartosz Michałowski and the VOŁOSI band. Special guests will be: Adam Strug and Kapela Odloty. This unique event in the country - the "competition of competitions" - will be accompanied by workshops and discussions.

Detailed programmme : www.gppch.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 18^th of December, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at the Crown Tribunal in Lublin there will be a meeting with Dr. Maria Ziarkowska - author of the book entitled “Andrzej Cwojdziński. Man and Work.”

The book was published by Witold Lutosławski Primary and Secondary Music School in Lublin thanks to funding by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund as part of the "Musical Trace" programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

"Encore" - a choreographic show about love with live music by Lucia Długoszewski (1925-2000), an American composer, student of John Cage and Edgar Varèse, choreographer and inventor - will premiere on the 23^rd of November, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at Hashtag Lab. Liwia Bargieł-Kiełbowicz and Stanisław Bulder will dance in the modernist villa at Barska 29. Show aimed for ages 16 and up.

“The show 'Encore' is my return to contemplative, metaphysical art. My reflection turns towards love. I look at it at its core, as a primal, pure creative force. We have different motivations to act, but it is love that seems to be the most uplifting to me," says choreographer and dancer Liwia Bargieł-Kiełbowicz.

The music by Lucia Długoszewski will be performed by Zofia Dutkiewicz (flute), Martyna Kułakowska (piano) and Olga Przybył (drums).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Created in painterly animation, The Peasants, directed by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, is a new look at the prose of Władysław Reymont. Music to the film was created by Lukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski and the Rebel Babel Orchestras, taking inspiration from the folk soundscape of Central and Eastern Europe. It will be performed on the 18^th of November at 7:30 pm at the Warsaw Philharmonic.

4 years of intensive work, more than 200,000 hours spent painting images by more than 100 artists working in four studios: in Poland, Ukraine, Serbia and Lithuania. This effect is highlighted by the musical setting, which will be presented during the festival by L.U.C. & Rebel Babel Orchestras, Bela Komoszyńska, Maria Pomianowska (Biłgorajska suka), the Song Laboratory and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Anna Sułkowska-Migoń.

Sale of an additional pool of tickets for this concert begins on the 10^th of November.

Tickets: https://nck.bilety24.pl/wydarzenie/?id=93897 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Academy of Music in Łódź invites you to the eleventh edition of the AŻ Festival at the Academy Concert Hall in Żubardzka street. The programme of eight events planned from the 18^th of November to the 3^rd of December, 2023 will satisfy every audience, as it will include: musical, new music, jazz, pop music, percussion music, chamber music and finally symphonic music.

Academy Ensembles will perform: Symphony Orchestra, Big Band, Jazz Orchestra, PRIMUZ Chamber Orchestra, New Music Instrumental Ensemble, Bacewicz Percussion Ensemble, Academy Choir and guests - New Music Orchestra and Gdańsk Jeunesses Musicales Percussion Group.

Special guests will appear on the festival stage: Krystyna Prońko, cellist Krzysztof Lenczowski and the French duo Fines Lames. The festival finale will feature violinist Maja Ludwika Tomaszewska-Klimek accompanied by the AM Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Humala.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 2^nd of December, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Agnieszka Osiecka Music Studio of the Polish Radio (Myśliwiecka 3/5/7/) there will be Concert of Laureates of the 18^th Kazimierz Serocki International Composition Competition 2023. Free admission!

The concert will begin with Kazimierz Serocki's ‘Suite of Preludes’ performed by pianist Krzysztof Kozłowski.

After the award ceremony, we will hear the winners' works performed by Hashtag Ensemble: The Flow by Uri Brener (Israel), Encendiendo by Luca Vago (Italy) and ─ ~ minus ~ VII < Picture Book of Mist > by Masato Kimura (Japan).

The awards were funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

A concert performance of Krzysztof Penderecki's Black Mask, a relatively rarely performed but undoubtedly very interesting opera by the master, will take place at NOSPR on the 23^rd of November, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. This date is not accidental - on this day Maestro Penderecki would have celebrated his 90^th birthday.

The stage performance of the Black Mask will be broadcast live on the medici.tv platform at: https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/marin-alsop-conducts-penderecki-black-mask-90th-birthday-nospr 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information POLMIC

The Polish Society of Contemporary Music invites children aged 3-8 with their parents to free improvisation workshops ‘Tell me a fairy tale’, which will take place on the 19^th of November, 2023 at 11.00 at the ‘Pogodna’ Center for Creative Activities - a branch of the Wesoła Cultural Center (Jana Pawła II 25, Warsaw). The plan includes a lot of music, improvisation, playing instruments and having fun.

The workshops will be led by improvisers: Leszek Lorent (percussion instruments), Małgorzata Kołcz (double bass) and composer Jarosław Siwiński (synthesizer).

Details: www.ptmw.art.pl  and https://fb.me/e/1bUgcz3qg 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As last year, during the inauguration of the 5^th International Music Festival of Central and Eastern Europe "Eufonie", one of the most famous orchestras in the world will perform: the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

On the 17^th of November at 7:30 p.m. at the Warsaw Philharmonic, the ensemble conducted by Olari Elts will perform works by Edward Elgar, Karol Szymanowski, Jean Sibelius and Lotta Wennäkoski, who will be present in the audience that day.

Detailed information: https://www.eufonie.pl/program/wydarzenie-1/