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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

During the 19^th International Piano Forum "Bieszczady without Borders" on February 3-9, 2024 in Sanok, masters and young pianists will play 20 top-class instruments. This year's theme will be "Time in Music".

The programme includes symphonic concerts and recitals, a comedy show performed by Ireneusz Krosny, an exhibition of works by Barbara Porczyńska, the 13^th Master School of Piano Pedagogy and the 15^th International Piano Competition "Young Virtuoso". Performances include, among others, Elena Margolina-Hait, Alexander Gadijev, Anahit Nersesyan, Ekaterina Drzewiecka, the Anna Geniušienė and Lukas Geniušas duo, as well as the Lviv Chamber Orchestra "Akademia" conducted by Igor Pylatyuk and the Paderewski Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Michał Szymanowski.

Website of the project: https://interpiano.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic invites fans of film music to a concert on the 28^th of January, 2024 at 5 p.m. as part of the "PGE HoloGramy" series. The background for the event will be an amazing hologram setting, which, combined with music by Polish artists, will provide an unforgettable experience.

The programme will include soundtracks from such productions as Polskie Drogi (music by Andrzej Kurylewicz), Vabank (Henryk Kuźniak), Alternatywy 4 and Janosik (Jerzy Matuszkiewicz), 07 zgłoś się (Włodzimierz Korcz), Czterej pancerni i pies (Adam Walaciński), Wojna domowa (Janusz Mych), as well as Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones and others.

The Silesian Chamber Orchestra will be conducted by Radosław Droń, and we will hear the drummer Krzysztof Nowakowski as a soloist.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the "Polish Music Stage" programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance, the Equilibrium String Quartet will perform on the 27^th of January, 2024 at 7 p.m. at the Tadeusz Baird Philharmonic in Zielona Góra.

Sulamita Ślubowska (1st violin), Małgorzata Malke (2nd violin), Anna Nowak-Pokrzywńska (viola) and Tomasz Pokrzywński (cello) will perform quartets by Polish composers: String Quartet in C major, Op. 8 No. 1 by Józef Elsner, Variations on original theme Op. 21 by Władysław Żeleński and String Quartet No. 3 in E minor "Fantazja" by Zygmunt Noskowski.

In January, the premiere of the latest album by Equilibrium String Quartet, dedicated to fantasies for string quartet, will take place, which will also include Noskowski's delightful Quartet No. 3 "Fantazja".

Ticket information: http://filharmoniazg.pl/events/equilibrium-string-quartet-scena-muzyki-polskiej/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The world premiere of “Never twice the same” - Cuore Piano Trio's debut album - will take place on 23rd January 2024 on all streaming platforms. Their newest album, released by the Spanish KNS Classical label, contains an extraordinary repertoire: rarely performed pieces of Polish, French, American and Argentinian origin written by Ludomir Różycki, Germaine Tailleferre, Paul Schoenfield, and Astor Piazzolla.

"The repertoire selection resembles the atmosphere of the most colorful era of the Western world due to extraordinary timbre, intertwining moods, finesse and variety of expression. In fact, this repertoire is easy to receive, but difficult to perform; it requires instrumental virtuosity and brilliant converting from one style to another. It is straightforward music, which in its own way is also refined, striking, and certainly not without depth, while the young musicians' interpretation fortifies it with plenitude and élan. In their music one can notice a great knowledge of style, taste, spiritedness, intensified sensuality and passion with full devotion to feelings" - Krzysztof Lipka about “Never twice the same”.

The trio, founded in 2017 in Warsaw by Zuzanna Małgorzata Budzyńska - violin, Jadwiga Roguska – cello, and Szymon Ogryzek – piano, is the only Polish ensemble in history with its own concert cycle “Souvenir” at the prestigious Musikverein in Vienna. Cuore Piano Trio have been distinguished with numerous prestigious awards such as the Young Promoter of Poland 2023, Students’ Nobel Prize 2020 or the Coryphaeus of the Polish Music Prize 2019, to name but a few.

Already in February the musicians are headed to a three-week-long concert tour to Canada, promoting the CD. Afterwards the ensemble will be presenting the CD’s program in a.o. Poland, Austria (Musikverein Wien), Denmark, USA or Italy.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Fryderyk Chopin Music School Complex in Piła announces the 2^nd Composition Competition for a school miniature. Any student of a second-degree music school in Poland can take part in the competition. Students with the status of students of music universities are excluded from participating. The deadline for submitting applications is the 30^th of April, 2024.

The subject of the competition is a piece composed in any style for 2 to 4 performers, selected from the following instruments: violin, clarinet, trombone, piano. Unconventional ways of extracting sound are allowed in the composition, including the preparation of the instrument (as long as it does not pose a risk of damaging the instrument). Works that have not been previously published, recorded or awarded in other composition competitions may be submitted. One participant may submit a maximum of two works.

Rules and regulations: https://www.gov.pl/web/zsmpila/ii-ogolnopolski-konkurs-kompozytorski 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the project of Polish Chamber Musicians of Collegium Cantorum "Anthology of Polish a Cappella works", the latest album "Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz - Choral Works" (DUX 2055) will be released on the 16^th of January, 2024. It will be available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and Tidal platforms as well as in Empik stores.

Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz's composition achievements are very rich and extremely diverse, but - most importantly in the context of the project - the composer is considered a master of a cappella choral works. The theme of the album released by DUX are songs that can be placed in the national mainstream: Kurpie Songs inspired by folklore, From Chopin's songs (memories of the greatest masters), sacred music (Polish Litany, Ave Regina caelorum), heart-warming lyrics by great poets in the compositions of Orfeusz in the forest, A soldier's dream, On the Warsaw bridge.

The songs were recorded by the Częstochowa ensemble Polish Chamber Musicians Collegium Cantorum, conducted by Janusz Siadlak, the initiator of the project.

Patronat medialny nad sezonem koncertowym 2023 / 2024 NOSPR sprawuje Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Pierwszy w tym roku koncert Kwartetu Śląskiego w ramach cyklu "Arcydzieła z kontrapunktem polskim" 27 stycznia 2024 o godz. 18.00 w NOSPR zadedykowany został Witoldowi Lutosławskiemu, który skończyłby w tym roku 111 lat. Stąd w programie – jego Kwartet smyczkowy.

W programie także Witold Maliszewski, nauczyciel Witolda Lutosławskiego, który skomponował Kwintet smyczkowy z dwiema wiolonczelami. Muzykom Kwartetu Śląskiego towarzyszyć będzie znakomity szwedzki wiolonczelista Mats Lidström, członek jury pierwszej edycji Międzynarodowego Konkursu Muzycznego im. Karola Szymanowskiego.

Wieczór rozpocznie się ostatnim Kwartetem smyczkowym Feliksa Mendelssohna-Bartholdy’ego.

Więcej: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/arcydziela-z-kontrapunktem-polskim-witold-lutoslawski 

Patronat medialny nad Konkursem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Katedra Instrumentów Dętych Akademii Muzycznej im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi ogłasza VII Międzynarodowy Akademickiego Konkursu Oboistów i Fagocistów im. Józefa Ciepłuchy. II i III etap Konkursu odbędą się w dniach 6–8 maja 2024. Formularz zgłoszeniowy należy uzupełnić i wysłać do 10 marca wraz z linkiem do nagrania programu I etapu (eliminacji).

Ideą Konkursu jest promowanie najlepszych instrumentalistów z polskich i zagranicznych uczelni muzycznych. Rozgrywany w dwóch oddzielnych kategoriach - oboju i fagotu - Konkurs przeznaczony jest dla studentów studiów licencjackich i magisterskich wszystkich narodowości, którzy w momencie rozpoczęcia wydarzenia nie ukończyli 26 roku życia. W Konkursie mogą brać udział także utalentowani uczniowie szkół średnich spełniający wymagania programowe.

W programie obowiązkowym znalazły się m.in. Suita na obój i fortepian Stefana Kisielewskiego i Sonatina na fagot i fortepian Aleksandra Tansmana.

Regulamin Konkursu: https://www.amuz.lodz.pl/index.php/pl/wydarzenia/vii-miedzynarodowy-akademicki-konkurs-oboistow-i-fagocistow-im-jozefa-ciepluchy 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 19^th of January, 2024 at 7.30 p.m. at NOSPR we will hear uncompromising interpretations of 20^th and 21^st century vocal lyrics, performed by the composer and singer Agata Zubel and the Korean pianist Chae-Um Kim, who lives permanently in Paris.

The programme of their joint recital ranges from beautiful songs by Korngold and Wagner, through a musical arrangement of poems by Eina Leina to the recently deceased outstanding Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, to the youngest works: an extensive cycle to the sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by the Slovenian Nina Šenk, and a work by the Spanish composer José María Sánchez-Verdú from 2023. And it is in Spain that this musical journey ends - with a daring cycle of songs by Manuel de Falla based on the local folklore.

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/muzyka-najnowsza-agata-zubel-and-chae-um-kim