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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 62^nd edition of the Music Festival in Łańcut will take place on May 6 - June 4, 2023. The concerts are planned both in spaces of Łańcut Castle Museum and in the Artur Malawski Podkarpacie Philharmonic in Rzeszów.

Artists from all over the world will perform during 13 events as part of this prestigious undertaking, e.g. baritone Artur Ruciński, American tenor Charles Castronovo, French ensemble La Chapelle Harmonique, The Nazareth College Chamber Singers, renowned Berlin Piano Trio, Romanian pianist Mihai Diaconescu.

Detailed programme: https://festiwallancut.pl/kategoria-produktu/repertuar/2023/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Events organized as part of the ‘Meeting with the Master’ are an opportunity to get to know violinist Mariusz Patyra in various circumstances and roles - as a teacher and virtuoso, during solo and orchestral playing workshops, in the practice room and on the stage.

The ‘Meeting with the Master’ events will take place on May 6-11, 2023 in the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music in Łódź (ul. Żubardzka 2a) and in the Palace of the Academy of Music in Łódź (ul. Gdańska 32). Free entrance.

Schedule of the events: https://www.amuz.lodz.pl/pl/koncerty-i-wydarzenia-zapowiedzi/maj-2023 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish Society for Contemporary Music invites you to participate in improvisation workshops for children 'Tell Me a Fairy Tale', which will take place on the 13^th of May, 2023 at the Multicultural Center in Warsaw (Centrum Wielokulturowe). Children aged 3-8 with their parents will learn, play and improvise with great musicians and books. Recruitment of participants for these free workshops will last until the 11^th of May.

The workshops will be led by improvisers: beatboxer Patryk Tik-Tak Matela, composer and pianist Jarosław Siwiński and double bass player Małgorzata Kołcz.

Classes last about 90 minutes with a short break. The number of places is limited, registration of participants in advance is recommended. This can be done in two ways:

• by filling out the form: https://forms.gle/RyHxgccw7gh8kL6b8 
• by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Details on FB: https://fb.me/e/2aULGO0kK 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the ‘Institutions of the future - cooperation between NOSPR and Konserthuset Stockholm’ on the 1^st of May, 2023 at 19.00 in this well-known concert hall, young virtuosos, participants of the NOSPR Academy and the Academy of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm will perform at another joint concert music by two Polish composers: Henryk Górecki and Andrzej Panufnik, combined with the famous Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler in a chamber version and a piece by Swedish Andrea Tarrodi based on Ukrainian and Swedish folk melodies.

Talented artists meet for the third time in less than a year as part of the "Institutions of the Future 2023" project co-financed by the 'Inspiring Culture' programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

This time it is a charity concert for Ukraine conducted by a Polish conductor - Vincent Kozlovsky. The soloists will be the Polish pianist Tymoteusz Bies, the Swedish-Ukrainian pianist Natalia Pasiecznik and the Polish-Ukrainian soprano Olga Pasiecznik. The concert is part of the European Festival 'Ukrainian Spring', organized by the network of European National Cultural Institutes of the European Union (EUNIC), of which the Polish Institute in Stockholm is a member, in cooperation with the European Commission.

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More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/piesni-z-nieba-koncert-dla-ukrainy 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In 2018, Tomasz Raff premiered Mieczysław Weinberg's song cycles Triptych Op. 99 and Profile Op. 88 at the August-Kestner-Museum in Hanover. In May 2023, after 5 years of historical turmoil in the world, the artist returns to Germany to perform an extended Weinberg programme. The concerts will take place on the 7^th of May at 5 p.m.  in the innovative co-working space ‘Die Rampe – Hannover’ and on the 6^th of May 6 at 7.45 p.m. in Göttingen, in the Clavier-Salon run by Prof. Gerrit Zitterbart.

Both recitals will be performed by Tomasz Raff in a duet with pianist Monika Kolasińska. The intimate atmosphere of the recitals and the important message contained in the raw, sparing form of Mieczysław Weinberg's music will be enriched by video-art visualizations by Zuzanna Grzegorowska.

Although Wajnberg composed his last songs about 40 years ago, they have become alarmingly relevant now, when the ghosts of the almost forgotten wartime past have awakened again.

Additional information: https://iam.pl/ 

Polish Composers’ Union in partnership with Berg Orchestra, Waves Bratislava and UMZE Association invite composers from the Visegrad Group countries to collaborate on the ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for sustainability’ project. Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2023.

The call is open to composers up to 35 years of age representing the Visegrad Group countries (citizens of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, living in the country and abroad).

The new works for chamber music ensemble of 7 up to 10 instruments (to be chosen from ‘Fl Ob Cl Bn / Cor Tpt Tbn / Perc/ Vn Vla Vc Cb / Elec’) will be commissioned from selected composers. Expected length of approximately 15-20 minutes, scores and parts of composition to be submitted by 31 March 2024.

The composers will be invited to take part in a series of workshops with music and ecology experts, they will visit concert sites in all partner countries and meet with local ensembles’ representatives. The new works will premiere in summer 2024.

Commission fee: 4000,00 EUR

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Paria - Stanisław Moniuszko's opera - discovered years later, dazzles. The work, awarded in 2021 with the International Opera Award, will be performed on 23^rd of May, 2023 at 8 p.m. at the Berlin Philharmonic in an excellent concert performance. Choir and Orchestra of the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theater Choir and Orchestra in Poznań conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk.

Paria is an opera about the need for freedom inherent in each of us. A moving story about exclusion and the power of prejudice. The concert presentation at the Berlin Philharmonic will take place just before the release of the CD with the recording of Paria, which will be released by the Naxos label.

Iwona Sobotka will play the role of Neala. The part of Idamor will be sung by Dominik Sutowicz, whom the Berlin audience applauded warmly in 2019 during the concert presentation of Halka. The role of Dżares will be performed by Stanislav Kuflyuk, successfully conquering opera stages around the world, recently collaborating with the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Wexford Opera Festival. We will also hear Volodymyr Tyshkov as Akebar, Piotr Friebe as Ratef and Lucyna Białas as Priestess.

Tickets: https://www.eventim.de/event/paria-philharmonie-berlin-16645998/?affiliate=TUG 

Event on Fb: https://tinyurl.com/2aehsspn 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the ‘Opera in the UAM Hall’ series, the Choir and Orchestra of the Grand Theater in Poznań conducted by Marc Guidarini will perform works by Stanisław Moniuszko and Witold Lutosławski on the 10^th of May, 2023 in the University Hall at 19:00. The soloists will be Magdalena Nowacka (soprano), Magdalena Wilczyńska-Goś (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Friebe (tenor) and Damian Konieczek (bass).

The two composers created in different epochs, their view on music and the choice of means of expression were necessarily different. What they have in common is talent, extraordinary sensitivity and stylistic virtuosity. Moniuszko and Lutosławski will be the protagonists of the next concert as part of the ‘Opera in the UAM Aula’ series.

All of Stanisław Moniuszko's Litanies of Ostra Brama will be presented, the Song - third part of Witold Lutosławski's Small Suite, as well as Interlude for orchestra and Lacrimosa for soprano, choir and orchestra by the same author.

We invite you to an evening with Polish music!

Details: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/litanie-ostrobramskie 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Carter Johnson – a pianist, winner of the 2^nd International Competition of Polish Music together with the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet, will perform on the 28^th of April, 2023 at 19.00. He will perform Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg.

In addition to the Norwegian accent, the programme also features a Finnish element, in the form of Jean Sibelius' Symphonic Poem ‘Finlandia’, and a Polish one - one of Witold Lutosławski's most famous works, i.e. his Concerto for Orchestra.

In this work, we will find folk motifs from the collection Mazowsze by Oskar Kolberg, which are subjected to all kinds of processing and modifications. The work was commissioned by Witold Rowicki, and the source of inspiration for it can be found in Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.