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Rzeszów | 52. Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers' Union 'Polish Music. Tradition and Modernity’

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On September 7-9, 2023 at the Institute of Music of the Department of Humanities of the University of Rzeszów and at the Zygmunt Mycielski State Primary Music School in Strzyżów the 52nd Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers' Union ‘Polish Music. Tradition and Modernity’ will take place.

The aim of the conference is to look again at the Polish music tradition. To what extent are we still moved by the term ‘Polish music’ today and how do we treat native music? What is Polish music and how do we understand it today? These questions may be a starting point for a discussion on Polish music seen in a broad perspective, including, among others, compositional creativity, performance, reception, as well as aesthetic and methodological reflection.

The conference will be attended by Polish musicologists and invited guests: Bernadeta Czapraga (Universität Mozarteum Salzburg), Luba Kijanowska-Kamińska (Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko), Semith Cevallos (Federal University of Paraná State, Brazil) and John Mackenzie Pierce (University of Michigan).

During the conference, diplomas will be awarded to this year's winners of the Fr. Prof. Hieronim Feicht award.

DOWNLOAD: Conference programme

Cracow | Music in the salons! 7th 'Cracow Music Salon' Festival

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

For the 7^th time, the Association of Polish Chamber Musicians invites you to Cracow’s musical salons: to large ballrooms and intimate interiors, and even to apartments! Free concerts popularizing chamber music of Polish composers will take place between September 5-28, 2023.

This year's edition will be unique not only because of the diverse repertoire, but also the performers and concert venues. This year duo Katarzyna Drogosz (piano) and Agnieszka Oszańca (cello), duo Bartosz Koziak (cello) together with Grzegorz Mania (piano), Michał Marcol (violin), Krzysztof Karpeta (cello), Monika Kruk (piano) , Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk (soprano), Anna Bernacka (mezzo-soprano), Jolanta Kowalska-Pawlikowska (soprano), Dominika Grzybacz (piano), and Polish Violin Duo (Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Łaguniak) in a quartet with Magdalena Bojanowicz (cello) and Piotr Różański (piano) will perform.

The concerts will take place at the Villa Decius Institute of Culture, the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University, the Museum of Cracow - Krzysztofory Palace and the Music Salon at Studencka street.

Free tickets are required for the concerts - https://app.evenea.pl/event/7ksm/

Katowice | 2nd International Karol Szymanowski Music Competition

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On September 5-22, 2023, in Katowice, the most talented young musicians from around the world will take part in the 2^nd International Karol Szymanowski Music Competition. Participants will compete in four categories - piano, violin, string quartet and voice. The final gala of the Competition, where you can listen to the winners, will take place on the 23^rd of September at 6 p.m. at NOSPR.

In each category, the participants will be judged by international jury composed of recognized figures from the world of music, and the audience. With a prize pool of nearly €300,000 and guaranteed CD recordings and concert invitations, winning the competition can be a turning point in every participant's life.

The technological partner of the second edition of the Szymanowski Competition is YouTube – a platform owned by Google. The cooperation covered a wide range of support, including live broadcasts on the NOSPR YouTube channel.

Bielsko-Biała, Szczyrk, Ustroń, Żywiec, Cieszyn | 4th Festival Beskid Classics

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Celebrating the 300^th anniversary of granting Biała city rights, the organisers invite you to concerts in Bielsko-Biała between the 31st of August and the 16th of September. The baroque Ensemble Giardino di Delizie from Rome at the Sułkowski Castle, the Czech Philharmonic Quartet at Villa Sixta, and the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra with present the world premiere of the new work by Mikołaj Górecki and the most famous works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Respighi.

The workby Mikołaj Górecki was commissioned by the Temida Arts & Business Foundation and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The concerts will also include music by such Polish artists as Adam Jarzębski, Fryderyk Chopin, Wojciech Kilar, Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

18th International Festival of G. G. Gorczycki

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Eleven concerts featuring recognized musicians of the Polish music scene will take place from the 2^nd of September to the 1^st of October, 2023. 18^th International Festival of G. G. Gorczycki titled ‘Evolutions’ aims to show the greatest changes in music that took place in two epochs: Baroque and modern times. Three premieres will take place as well. Free entrance!

During the 18^th edition, such ensembles will perform as: the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Camerata Silesia Singers' Ensemble of the City of Katowice, Fortis Quartet, Silesian Chamber Music Quintet, Workshop Choir 'Chórtownia' as well as soloists and conductors: Łukasz Długosz, Agata Kielar-Długosz, Piotr Baron, Anna Szostak, Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz, Leszek Kołodziejski, Marek Wroniszewski, and many others.

The artists will premiere works by Tota pulchra est Renāte Stivriņa, Tango by Leszek Kołodziejski for accordion and harpsichord, and Sonata by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil for 2 flutes and piano (the composition was created as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance).

Detailed programme of the Festiival available at www.gorczycki.pl

SEE: video announcing the Festival: https://youtu.be/-0Ucmvd4jY4

Warsawa | Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra inaugurating concert of the season 2023/2024

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra invites you to a concert inaugurating the new artistic season. On the 10^th of September, 2023 at 19.00 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw the orchestra, conducted by maestro Antoni Wit, will perform works by Richard Wagner, Camille Saint-Saëns and Zygmunt Noskowski. South Korean pianist Hyuk Lee will perform as a soloist.

The pianist is known to the Polish audience, among others, as the winner of the 10^th Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz and the winner of the distinction at the 18^th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. In his interpretation we will hear the extraordinary Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major ‘Egyptian’ Op. 103 by Camille Saint-Saëns.

The finale of the concert will feature the rarely performed Symphony No. 3 in F major ‘From Spring to Spring’ by Zygmunt Noskowski.

Ticket information: www.sinfoniaiuventus.pl

Warsaw | Renewable Music: Open lectures on music and ecology

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the project ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability’ at the Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Composers' Union on the 2^nd of September, 2023 at 11.00, lectures on the relationship between music and ecology will be open to the public.

We will have the opportunity to listen to the following speeches in English: Music, sound, nature by Prof. dr hab. Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek, Art, cognition, nature - the festival as an expression of the cognitive imperative and the ethos of searching for the truth by the director of the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Jerzy Kornowicz, and Objectophones: the use of everyday objects as instruments by the composer Wojciech Błażejczyk.

Project website: https://renmus.eu/

Warsaw | Renewable Music: Workshops for composers

RenMus 31.8.23 Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the project ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability’, connecting composers, performers and artistic institutions from the Visegrad Group (V4) countries, at the beginning of September 2023 workshops with experts in the field of music and ecology will take place in Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava and Budapest.

The series of workshops will begin in Warsaw, where composers will have the opportunity to visit the Castle Gardens on August 31 - September 2, take part in a discussion with Krzysztof Marciniak - a musicologist and acoustic ecologist, and Joanna Tabaka, an ecological educator, and work on original ideas with members of the Hasztag Ensemble, specializing in the performance of contemporary music.

Project website: https://renmus.eu/

Bydgoszcz | Koherencje Festival

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

What do music and philosophy have in common? Let's get to know the experts' answers and find your own during three days of various events of the Koherencje Festival! The festival, which will take place on August 24-26, 2023 at the Chamber Theater in Bydgoszcz, the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music and in Melostrefa, is the first in Poland and one of the few in Europe series of events devoted to music, philosophy and their interconnections.

The Festival programme consists of three lecture-concerts, combining an inspiring philosophical lecture with a concert: classical and contemporary music will be performed.

Additional information: https://www.facebook.com/Fundacja.Koherencje/

Results of the 3rd Composition Competition of the ArteFonie Festival announced

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble and the Association of Young Artists of the Wejherowo Region awarded one 1^st prize to Anna Maria Huszcza and one honorable mention to Daniel Badecki as part of the 3^rd Composition Competition of the ArteFonie Festival. The organizers received over 40 works this year. The compositions were judged by members of the Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble.

The jury decided that the laureate Anna Maria Huszcza would receive a financial award, and her work would be premiered by the Female Chamber Choir in Kościerzyna.

Composers will also receive POLMIC material prizes - CDs issued by the Polish Music Information Centre.

The award ceremony will take place during the final concert of the 3^rd ArteFonie Festival on the 9^th of September in the Church of St. Stanisław Kostka in Wejherowo.

Congratulations!

Katowice | Golden concert of the Silesian Philharmonics

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On the 8^th of September, 2023 at 20.00 in the hall of the Marshal's Office, the ‘Golden Concert’ of the Silesian Philharmonics will take place, the programme of which includes works announcing the next concert season. A special free invitation to the concert will be available on the 17^th of August from 11.00 at the ticket office of the Silesian Philharmonic or by completing the online form (this will be launched at noon).

In the 2023/2024 season, the Philharmonic will host the participants of the 11^th International G. Fitelberg Conductors' Competition. Celebration of the 90^th birthday of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki will also take place, the Film Music Gala and Game Music Fest, and more!

During the September concert performed by the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet, we will hear Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra, Op. 40 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Orawa by Wojciech Kilar, music by Hans Zimmer from the film Pearl Harbor and works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler and Astor Piazzolla. Harpsichord player, Marek Toporowski, will perform as a soloist.

Tłokowo | III Klangor – Chamber music concerts in Jeziorany Festival

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On August 25-27, 2023, the Municipal Cultural Center in Jeziorany invites you to the 3rd festival ‘Klangor - Jeziorańskie Koncerty Kameralne’. The third edition is a meeting with three genres of vocal art: from folk, traditional singing, through classical, to stage vocals in the space of the church of St. Roch in Tłokowo / Kramarzewo.

It will inaugurate the ‘Folk Requiem’ Festival - a meeting between the singer Adam Strug and the Kwadrofonik ensemble. On the 26^th of August, the duo Dwóch Głos, co-created by the cellist and composer Michał Pepol together with the pianist Bartek Wąsik, will introduce Szymanowski's music to the youngest audience in an accessible way: a selection of Kurpie Songs, Swan and excerpts from the ballet Harnasie in arrangements by the duo will be presented. On the same day, in the evening, we will hear another duo: pianist Karina Komendera and vocalist Maciej Pawlak will introduce the audience to the lesser-known, ambitious face of the musical.

Detailed information: www.mokjeziorany.pl/aktualnosci/klangor2023

Tickets available at https://ekobilet.pl/miejski-osrodek-kultury-w-jezioranach-8252

Release of an album on the 90th anniversary of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki birth

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 1^st of September, 2023, the album Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. Church songs will be released. It was created on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the world-famous composer's birth. The entire recording of this collection of works for a cappella mixed choir performed by the Apertum Cor Singing Ensemble conducted by Kamil Gojowy will be available on popular streaming services. The concert premiere of the album will take place on the 30^th of September at 19.00 in the Basilica of St. Anthony in Rybnik, on the 6^th of November at 6.00 p.m. at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and on the 6^th of December at 7.30 p.m. in the Church of St. Apostles Peter and Paul in Katowice. Free entrance!

More information: https://szchio.pl/news/nowi-czlonkowie-szchio-nagrali-utwory-h-m-goreckiego

Wrocław | International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra in the National Forum of Music

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The International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra is the only youth orchestra in Poland with an international character, which makes it unique. The team from Szczecin is connected with the National Forum of Music by its patron - Witold Lutosławski, whose 110^th birth anniversary we are celebrating this year. Therefore, the programme of the Wrocław performance on the 24^th of August, 2023 could not miss his music. Probably the most famous piece from the composer's oeuvre will be performed - Concerto for Orchestra.

The concert will be opened by a work of Krzysztof Penderecki, Szczecin Fanfare, which in 2014 sounded during the opening of the new building of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic. The modern building also became the headquarters of ILYO. The fanfare was prepared by Penderecki especially for this occasion. Between the works of two Polish masters, the artists will present the music of Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss.

Press release

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10309

Renewable Music: Results of the call for proposals

Patronat medialny nad Konkursem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

We are pleased to announce the results of the call for proposals for the ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability’ project. Four composers from the countries of the Visegrad Group will write new works dealing with the topic of ecology and renewable energy in music.

After reviewing the submitted applications, the following candidates were selected:

Katarzyna Krzewinska from Poland
Ian Mikyska from the Czech Republic
Samuel Hvozdík from Slovakia
Máté Balogh from Hungary

The premieres of the compositions will be performed by the Hashtag Ensemble, Berg Orchestra, UMZE Ensemble and EnsembleSpectrum at concerts in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

Congratulations to the winners!

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