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From Elsner to Moryto

A concert given by Chair of String Instruments of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music entitled "From Elsner to Moryto" will be held on December 4, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.

Performers: Emilia Jarocka, Debora Kramarek, Judyta Kluza, Joanna Rybak, Kinga Zlot, Aleksandra Grudzińska, Karolina Miśkowiec, Zuzanna Budzyńska, Anna Korczyńska, Nikola Kiszczak, Błażej Bębeńca, Ayeong Heo, Emilia Łapko, Aleksandra Błaszczyk, Jan Pietkiewicz – violin, Grzegorz Skrobiński, Aleksandra Dallali, Ewa Skardowska, Szymon Ogryzek, Andrzej Guz, Yuka Mohri, Aleksandra Płaczek – piano.

Programme: Józef Elsner, Apolinary Kątski, Aleksander Zarzycki, Emil Młynarski, Ignacy Jan Paderewski / Stanisław Barcewicz, Karol Szymanowski, Stanisław Moryto, Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz, Henryk Melcer.

Artistic supervision: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Gębski.

Free admission cards available at the UMFC (2 Okólnik Street).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Instrument Masters in "Wednesday on Okólnik Street" concert cycle

A concert of the Symphony Orchestra of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music under Maestro Vladimir Kiradijev will take place on November 29, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.

Performers: Agata Szymczewska – violin, The FCUM Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kiradjiev – conductor. Programme: Karol Szymanowski, Roman Palester, Francis Poulenc. Ticket: 15 PLN.

The concert is a part of "Instrument Masters" in "Wednesday on Okólnik Street" cycle. It is also a part of the National Conference Roman Palester's Perfect Pitch, which will be held between November 29 and December 2. Admission for the conference is free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

13th International Festival of Contemporary Music and Visual Arts „Mózg Festival” in Warsaw

13th edition of the International Festival of Contemporary Music and Visual Arts „Mózg Festival” will be held in Warsaw between November 28 and December 2, 2017.

International Festival of Contemporary Music and Visual Arts „Mózg Festival” is an encounter of artists who work and create in all areas of contemporary music as well as performance art and multimedia installations where music plays an important part. Artists who participate in the festival come from all around the world. This reflects the multicultural principle of "Mózg Festival" and enables the audience to experience and understand different aspects of various cultures.

The festival presents the newest performance techniques and interdisciplinary combinations that relate to and honour tradition. Among the invited artists there are outstanding characters from the artistic world as well as young artists, whose hitherto activity manifests uniqueness. An indispensable part of the festival is the participation of local artists who meet the above-mentioned expectations. All artistic activity is treated as means leading to deeper understanding of the surrounding reality and changes that occur in the world.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Festival Programme: http://www.festiwal.mozg.pl

BASSO 2. Biennale of Low Tones: "BASSO in the underground" and "AUKSO with basses"

BASSO 2. Biennale of Low Tones will take place in Warsaw and will last until November 30, 2017.

BASSO is a unique biennial, mainly due to its originality and pioneering character in Poland. The idea of the event is to go beyond the framework of the classical festival of classical music. The core of the programme is music for bass instruments, with particular emphasis on cello, viola da gamba and double bass, as well as brass and electronic instruments (tuba, bassoon, bass guitar) and folk instruments (basses). The name of the event refers to the baroque practice of basso continuo, i.e. a system of partially improvised accompaniment played on a bass line.

On November 26 at the Podziemie Kamedulskie singer Justyna Piernik and her father, tubist Zdzisław Piernik will perform music from Kuyavia region. The concert will be accompanied by a lecture on the role of bass instruments in Polih traditional music given by musicologist, instrumentalist and vocalist Maciej Kaziński, and the presentation of tubmaryna given by musician, animator and musical instrument builder Dominik Dembiński.

The final concert on November 30 will feature the AUKSO Chamber Orkiestra under Marek Moś along with Malisze Band from Męcina Mała in the Low Beskids who will perform short folk songs and dances from the Gorlice County on violin, hurdy-gurdy, nyckelharpa, drum and basses.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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"The Taming of the Shrew" from the Bolshoi Theatre

An innovative ballet interpretation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew will be broadcast live from the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow at the Praha Cinema in Warsaw on November 26, 2017.

Rather than a macho handbook, The Taming of the Shrew can be construed as an encounter between two forces of nature, who recognise one another at last. If they are abrupt, obnoxious, it stems from their solitude; they are fundamentally different from the society they live in, albatrosses among sparrows, and their excesses signal that they have yet to find a man (or a woman) who can measure up to them. Their love is out of the ordinary: while Petruchio could appear to be interested only in Baptista’s fortune, once the ink is dry on their marriage certificate, he doesn’t let go of Katharina. If he is interested, it’s by this woman; the real dowry, the actual gold mine, it’s her. He still needs to put her through a series of challenges to make sure that he wasn’t mistaken, that they are right for each other — measure for measure, so to speak. He was right. So was she. If she gives in to her husband’s demands, it’s not because she has found her master, but because she has met her match. Her submissiveness is an act. It hardly matters whether or not the sun is the moon, because the two of them have their own, extra-ordinary light. Petruchio isn’t fooled by by his wife’s new attitude. For the outside world, however, the prevalent social norms are safe. Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief: even the most reluctant among them have complied. In truth, Katharina and Petruchio play their parts in perfect harmony, and their singular tune sets them apart in what is a game of artifice.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information: http://www.kinopraha.pl

XXVII International Festival of Young Laureats of Music Competitions “Interventions 2017”

The Institution of Music Promotion and Popularizarion "Silesia" invites for the second part of this year’s edition of the International Festival of Young Laureats of Music Competitions “Interventions 2017”, which will take place in Katowice between November 23 and December 15, 2017.

During the festival we will hear laureats of the 66th ARD International Music Competition in Munich, “Estrada Młodych” Music Competition, 51st Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk and other important Polish and international competitions for instrumentalists, cameralists and vocalists. It will also be an occasion to see on stage participants of the Opera Academy at the Teatr Wielki – National Opera in Warsaw. The programme will include works by Stanisław Moniuszko and Karol Szymanowski. Festival concerts will take place at the Concert Hall of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, NOSPR Chamber Hall, Archidiocesean Museum and different community centers in Katowice.

The festival is co-financed by the Institute of Music and Dance as part of the programme „Music and Dance – Interventions 2017”.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Detailed programme: http://www.silesia.art.pl

Haydn. The Day Trilogy | Berenice

Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will perform Joseph Haydn's "The Day Trilogy" symphonies and Scena di Berenice with Olga Pasiecznik on December 15th, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. at the Great Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Three symphonies devoted to different time periods – times of day – are an interesting curiosity in Haydn's legacy. There are some mentions that there were supposed to be four works, but if “Night” was one of them, it has not survived and today the cycle consists of three: Morning, Noon and Evening, annotated in the scores with French titles. It was probably created around 1761, shortly after the great composer took up the post of the vice-band leader of the ensemble of Prince Pál Esterházy. These charming Rococo works are evidence of the intensive search for a new expression of the hitherto simple sinfonia of Baroque provenance and its transformation into a mature, classic symphony.

During his second visit to London in 1795, Haydn wrote the dramatic scene Berenice, che fai for Italian singer Brigida Banti, using the expressive text from Pietro Metasiasio’s Antigono. In the work, Berenice mourns the (alleged) suicidal death of her beloved Demetrio. The role of the emotion-torn Berenice will be sung by one of the most acclaimed singers, Olga Pasiecznik from Ukraine, who has been living in Poland for years. Pasiecznik is adored by audiences for many unforgettable opera and oratorial roles, as well as her wonderful song repertoire. The concert will be led by Gabriel Chmura.

Concerts of Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra are organised under Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC patronage.

More information: http://sinfoniaiuventus.pl

27th Portraits of Composers

Polish Composers’ Union invites the listeners to attend the concert cycle entitled „Portraits of Composers” presented this year for the 27th time. The concerts will be held at "Łowicka" Center (Łowicka 21 street, Warsaw) on December 4 and 5, 2017 at 8 p.m. The main artists of this year's edition are Carlos Malcolm and Agnieszka Stulgińska.

The concerts will feature two premieres commissioned by the Polish Composers' Union thanks to support of PZU Foundation. Momento musical for piano for four hands (2017) by Carlos E. Malcolm is the result of composer's experience gained during his stay in Poland. It will be perdormed by the composer and pianist Kyeong-Yeon Seo.

Three women for three women and 10 instruments (2017) by Agnieszka Stulgińska is a piece about feminity, motherhood, difficult life, travelling, space, longing, intimacy, power and generations – all the things that cannot be included in the limited space and notation... A starting point for searching for the timbre was the Polish-Belarusian boarderland where composer's father was born, and a voice of an old woman, the earth. The composition will be premiered by the well-known vocalists Maniucha Bikont and Marta Grzywacz, as well as Hashtag Ensemble.

Admission to all concerts is free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

27th Portraits of Composers

Programme

December 4, 2017 | Carlos Malcolm

13 Estudios para piano (1963)

Preludio (Allegro mosso)

Fugato (Moderato)

Contrastes (Andantino)

Segundas (Andante con espressivo)

Ritmica (Allegro ben ritmato)

Octavas – Progresiones (Con fuoco)

Sonatina (Allegro vivace – quasi presto)

Marcha – Mixolidica (Allegro giocoso)

Guajira (Moderato)

Habanera (Tempo habanera)

Pentafonismo

Como un pequeno pasacalle (Molto espressivo ma ben ritmato)

Un son para ninos antillanos (Allegreto)

Kyeong-Yeon Seo – piano

Songs to the lyrics of Caribbean poets (1979-1980)

Coplas de Juan el barbero, lyrics by Nicolas Guillen

Balada del Guije, lyrics by Nicolas Guillen

Un son para ninos antillanos, lyrics by Nocolas Guillen

The tropics in New York, lyrics by Claude McKay

Abrazo, lyrics by Antonio Preciado

Matabara del hombre malo, lyrics by Antonio Preciado

Performers:

Michał Przygoński – baritone

Kyeong-Yeon Seo – piano

Adagio for piano for four hands (1975)

Kyeong-Yeon Seo – piano

Carlos E. Malcolm – piano

Sonata for violin and piano (2007, rewizja 2017)

I: Allegro, ben ritmato

II: Adagio cantabile

II: Allegro scherzando

Barbara Malcolm – violin

Carlos E. Malcolm – piano

Momento musical for piano for four hands (2017)*

Kyeong-Yeon Seo – piano

Carlos E. Malcolm – piano

December 5, 2017 | Agnieszka Stulgińska

ORI for clarinet, cello, accordion and electric guitar (2010)

Dance with my Breath for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2015)

FGT (Flying Garbage Truck) for violin, saxophone, cello, accordion, piano and tape (2012)

NOZ – a cycle of 4 scenes for contrabass clarinet and cello (2016)

Trzy kobiety for three women and 10 instruments (2017)*

Performers:

Maniucha Bikont – voice

Michał Górczyński – clarinet / contrabass clarinet

Robert Jędrzejewski – cello

Hashtag Ensemble:

Oliwier Andruszczenko – clarinet

Wojciech Błażejczyk – electric guitar, sound engineering

Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska – viola

Adam Eljasiński – clarinet

Marta Grzywacz – voice

Agnieszka Guz – violin

Paweł Janas – accordion

Ania Karpowicz – flutes

Krzysztof Kozłowski – piano

Leszek Lorent – percussion

Mateusz Loska – double bass

Dominik Płociński – cello

Wojciech Psiuk – saxophones

Kamil Staniczek – violin

Lilianna Krych – conductor

* premier, commissioned thanks to support of PZU Foundation

The Final Concert of the XXVII International Festival of Young Laureats of Music Competitions – Interventions 2017

On December 15, 2017 at 6 p.m. at the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music in Katowice (Zacisze 3 Street) a final concert of the XXVI International Festival of Young Laureats of Music Competitions will take place under the title „Sketches for the opera – Stanisław Moniuszko’s „The Haunted Manor”.

Young vocalists, laureats of Polish and international competitions, students and graduates of music academies and different educational centers, as well as participants of the Opera Academy at the Teatr Wielki – National Opera in Warsaw, will perform well-known arias, duets and ensembles from Moniuszko’s “The Hanuted Manor”.

The event is co-financed by the Institute of Music and Dance as part of the programme „Music and Dance – Interventions 2017”. Free admission cards available at the IPiUM “Silesia” beureau (31a 3 Maja Street) and by phone (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Final concert of the “AUKSO Young Philharmonic”

The final concert of the 5th edition of the workshops “AUKSO Young Philharmonic” will take place on December 15, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Mediateka in Tychy (16 Piłsudskiego Street). It will be performed by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra and the AUKSO Young Philharmonic under Marek Moś and an excellent violinist Jakub Jakowicz as a soloist.

The programme will be dominated by Polish music. It will include such pieces as Suite in G major for string orchestra by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Concerto for violin and string orchestra by Andrzej Panufnik and The Legend, op. 17 by Henryk Wieniawski. The list will be completed with Serenade E major, Op. 22 for string orchestra by Anton Dvořák.

The project is organized by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy and Gorczycki.pl Society, and co-finaned by the Institute of Music and Dance as part of the programme „Music and Dance – Interventions 2017”. Tickets available at https://www.ticketpro.pl.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More at www.aukso.pl and www.gorczycki.pl

Ballet "Flame of Paris" live from the Bolshoi Theatre in cinemas on March 4, 2018

Boris Asafyev's ballet Flames of Paris will be broadcast live from the Bolshoi Theatre on March 4, 2018 at 4 p.m at the Praha Cinema in Warsaw.

Flames of Paris is a full-length ballet in four acts, choreographed by Vasily Vainonen to music by Boris Asafyev based on songs of the French Revolution. The libretto by Nicolai Volkov and Vladimir Dmitriev was adapted from a book by Felix Gras. It was premiered at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad on 7 November 1932. The Bolshoi Ballet premiered the full work on 6 July 1933 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The original production and choreography was reconstructed in 2008 by Alexei Ratmansky.

The Flames of Paris is a so-called "revolutionary" ballet which takes as its subject the French Revolution, including in its scenario the storming of the Tuileries Palace by the Marceliers and their victorious march on Paris. The plot is taken from the book of Felix Gras Les Marceliers. Although its setting is eighteenth-century France, it is a perfect illustration of Soviet ballet in the 1920s and 1930s, during which time there was a determined effort to find subjects in world history which reflected the more immediate situation in the Soviet Union, and to show that the October Revolution was part of more universal movements and historical events.

Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl

A new concert cycle "Sinfonia Varsovia Kameralnie"

„Sinfonia Varsovia Kameralnie” is a new concert cycle that will be held from January 3rd to December 5th, 2018.

The cycle starts on January 3rd at 7pm at Grochowska 272 street. Its main theme is music composed after 1918. Every first Wednesday of the month from January to December Sinfonia Varsovia musicians will present pieces written by well-known Polish composers of the 20th century like Aleksander Tansman, Andrzej Panufnik and Wojciech Kilar. The organizers will also present music by forgotten composers like Szymon Laks or Mieczysław Wajnberg. The concerts will be hosted by musicologists and journalists known from the Polish Radio Program 2 such as Agata Kwiecińska and Mariusz Gradowski.

Sinfonia Varsovia string quintet, composed of concertmasters and orchestra leaders, will perform at the inaugural concert. We will hear Quintetto per archi by Krzysztof Penderecki, The Elements by Jan Stokłosa and Umbrae by Andrzej Kwieciński.

Admission to all concerts is free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Download: detailed program.

More information: http://www.sinfoniavarsovia.org/pl/

4th Malopolska Academy of Talents – Begin summer with classical music!

Porta Musicae Artistic Association with a great joy invites pupils, students and graduates of music schools and universities to the Malopolska Academy of Talents. The fourth edition of music master classes will be taking place between July 1st and July 8th in a picturesque Łącko in Lesser Poland.

This year, the organizers invited eleven professors of various specialties: Iga Bialic (string orchestra), Michał Bylica (trumpet), Maria Dutka (viola, orchestral studies), Jan Kalinowski (cello), Gajusz Kęska (piano), Piotr Lato (clarinet), Oriana Masternak (violin), Marek Szlezer (piano), Arkadiusz Bialic (organ), Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska (chamber music), Małgorzata Wasiucionek (violin).

Malopolska Academy of Talents is an occasion for young players to improve their skills under the supervision of experienced and recognized experts of classical music. Lessons and direct contact with the selected teacher should open up new horizons for young artists, allowing them to independently value the level of their skills and select new goals to be achieved. During the courses there will be open to the public concerts of teachers and participants of the courses (free admission).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information about master classes and tutors and application form are available at www.kursymuzyczne.com

Mozart and Beethoven interpreted by Hobart Earl and AUKSO Orchestra

Three concerts of the AUSKO Orchestra under the baton of the American conductor Hobart Earl will take place on February 28, 2018 at the Kraków Philharmonic, March 2 at the Katowice Academy of Music and March 3 at the Wieliczka Salt Mine.

Hobart Earle is an internationally renowned conductor who trained his skills under the guidance of such masters as Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. He gives concerts all over the world, from North and South America, through Europe to Asia, performing in famous concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall, Musikverein in Vienna, Barbican in London and working with leading bands. He received many awards for his artistic activity. He is a laureate of Musical America Worldwide and was awarded the title of honorary professor at the Academy of Music in Odessa.

The famous Overture to the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will start the spectacular concert conducted by Earl. We will also hear the second Viennese classic – Ludwig van Beethoven with the daring 7th Symphony, which was named by Richard Wagner as "Dance Apotheosis". Beethoven himself spoke about his symphony: "Music is the wine that inspires us to create, I am Bachus, who gives this wonderful wine to make people spiritually drunk".

Concerts in Krakow and Wieliczka will be completed by the Cello Concerto No. 1 by Camill Saint-Saëns, which we will hear in the interpretation of a young, talented and award-winning cellist from Russia (laureate of the Knushevitsky International Cello Competition) – Dali Gutserieva. During the concert in Katowice her brother – pianist Adam Gutseriev, the winner of international competitions, including the International Music Competition "Amigdal" in Italy – will perform Piano Concerto No. 3 by Dmitry Kabalewski.

The concerts are organized by the Gorczycki.pl Association, whose media partner is the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC.

More information at: www.gorczycki.pl

The results of the 15th Tadeusz Ochlewski Composers' Competition

On February 27, 2018 the deliberations of the Jury of the 15th Tadeusz Ochlewski Composers' Competition took place. The theme of this year's Competition, organized by the Polish Music Publishing House, was a piece with lyrics for soprano and symphony orchestra.

The rules of the competition stated that the author of the winning composition will receive a cash prize of PLN 10,000 and his work will be released by the Polish Music Publishing House, included in the PWM catalog, and audio recorded along with a public performance.

Jury composed of: prof. Krzysztof Penderecki (chairman), prof. zw. dr hab. Eugeniusz Knapik, Jerzy Kornowicz, Paweł Mykietyn, dr Elżbieta Sikora and dr. Daniel Cichy evaluated all the submitted works and decided not to select the winning composition.

The jury awarded two second prizes ex aequo, each for PLN 4,000: Nad głębiami by Michał Ziółkowski, and Do prostego człowieka by Roman Czura. Third prize in the amount of PLN 2,000 went to the song Nie mów! by Piotr Zalewski.

Due to the Jury's verdict, the rules of the competition regarding the release of the winning composition by the Polish Music Publishing House, its inclusion in the PWM catalog, audio recording and public performance, are not valid.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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