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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

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 European Cultural Heritage Foundation ‘Europejczyk’ invites you from the 16^th to the 19^th of February 2023 to the Zdrojowy Theater in Szczawno-Zdrój for the premiere edition of the Winter Flute Festival. Recognized flute virtuosos - Aldo Baerten, Paolo Taballione, Łukasz Długosz - and young musicians will perform in the beautiful scenery of the neo-rococo interior of the Theatre. Admission free!

The Winter Flute Festival is a new initiative that is a stage emanation of the ‘Winter Flute Workshops’ held in Szczawno-Zdrój for 20 years. Famous artists and the most talented participants of the Winter Flute Workshop will be accompanied by pianists Andrzej Jungiewicz and Piotr Niewiedział and the Wieniawski Trio, consisting of musicians from the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio.

During the festival you will be able to listen to well-known works of flute music, e.g. J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.A. Mozart, R. Schumann, F. Poulenc, J. Ibert, C. Reinecke, G. Fauré, as well as K. Penderecki, K. Szymanowski and H. M. Górecki

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.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

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

Enter the game and take part in Game Music Fest 2023, a festival organized by the Silesian Philharmonic, which will take place in Katowice on February 17-18. The festival is dedicated to music in video games. It will begin with the Game Music Concert in Spodek, a composers' competition, and will end with a series of events at the Silesian Philharmonic, including a discussion panel with game music authors, a hologram concert, a VR and AR zone, and a networking zone.

The whole event will be opened by Game Music Concert in Spodek, performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmonic conducted by František Macek. It will be a real spectacle, enriched with animations and visualizations prepared by artists from the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences of the University of Silesia, as well as a dance show by the Seimuse group and cosplay shows.

The Game Music Fest also includes the Game Music Contest. The task of the competition is to compose a music logotype for the entire festival.

Press release

Detailed programme: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/game-music-fest/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

For the 18^th time, Sanok in the Podkarpacie region will host the International Piano Forum ‘Bieszczady without borders’. On February 4-12, 2023, the masters as well as young pianists will play in the Bieszczady Mountains. Most of the concerts will be streamed online. The report will also be carried out by TVP3 Rzeszów, TVP Kultura, Polish Radio Rzeszów, Dwójka and Radio dla Ciebie will broadcast the event.

Participants of the 18^th edition of the Forum will take part in concerts, masterclasses and individual lessons, specialist courses and seminars, thematic lectures with invited guests, in the International Piano Competition ‘Young Virtuoso’, the Piano Competition ‘Golden Parnas’ and the Competition ‘Pedagogue of the Virtuosos’ for teachers. The ‘Young Composer 2023’ award was funded by the Polish Composers' Union.

Detailed programme on the website: https://interpiano.pl 

The director of the National Institute of Music and Dance announces the composition of the jury of the 3^rd International Polish Music Competition Competition, which will take place in Rzeszów. The competition promotes Polish music of the 19^th and 20^th centuries among performers and the audience, and its winners, apart from cash prizes, will also receive numerous concert offers. Application deadline is the 15^st of February, 2023.

This year, from July 2 to 9, the Artur Malawski Podkarpacka Philharmonic in Rzeszów will host the third edition of the International Polish Music Competition - a unique event organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance since 2019.

The aim of the competition is also to promote talented musicians who include in their repertoire less known or less frequently performed works by Polish composers. Previous editions of the competition have shown that it is an event with an ever-widening global reach, and the winners successfully present Polish music on stages around the world. The competition is held every two years and includes two categories: pianists and chamber ensembles.

The jury of both categories of the competition will include recognized Polish and foreign musicians.

More information: konkursmuzykipolskiej.pl

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Between February 18 - June 11, 2023 NOSPR will host ‘Organ Nights and Mornings’ series, in which Julian Gembalski, the author of the concept of the new NOSPR organ, and the graduates of music academies will participate.

On three mornings, the 5^th of March, the 28^th of May and the 11^th of June, organist Julian Gembalski will show you what is really hidden in an organ cabinet, what a windchest actually is, how water organs work and why you need as many as a million parts, to build such an instrument.

On the 18^th of February, the artists will juxtapose the imagination-stimulating, mythological, metaphysical and sensual images of French artists, and on the 1^st of April - the craziest, surprising and contradictory musical fragments, such as... Waltz on four legs, or referring to the legendary rivalry between Bach and Handel, improvised Dinner for four arms and legs performed by Daniel Strządała and Michał Botor.