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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Twenty-year-old violinist Wojciech Niedziółka, still a student at the Academy of Music in Łódź, was last year the only Pole who qualified for the second stage of the International Henryk WIeniawski Violin Competition. During his recital at the National Forum of Music on the 17^th of December, 2023 at 12.30 he will combine traditional 19th-century virtuoso repertoire with an impressionistic piece by Krzysztof Penderecki, which is about a hundred years younger than the other works. He will be accompanied at the piano by Michał Franc, well-known to the NFM audience, who also accompanied the young musician during the Poznań competition.

Niedziółka will have many opportunities to show his skills during the performance of Krzysztof Penderecki's Cadenza. The programme of the performance includes Variations Op. 15 by Wieniawski a work writtenby him when he was only nineteen.

We will also hear compositions by Ernest Chausson, Johannes Brahms and Pablo Sarasate.

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10245 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 16^th of December, 2023 at 6.15 p.m., at the Quality Studio in Konwiktorska 7 street in Warsaw, there will be an open recording session of children's songs "Video score" by Anna Jędrzejewska, performed by students of music schools from Warsaw. Admission is free!

The educational project "Video scores" - a series of miniatures for children - was carried out as part of an artistic scholarship from the Śródmieście District of the Capital City of Warsaw. The series of works for children are film animations that suggestively and intuitively direct people to more abstract music and teach them to listen to atonal musical textures. Work on reading video scores, conversations with children, sensitivity to sonorism and abstract thinking in performance and creative practice are, according to the composer, the most interesting forms of developing the interests of young artists.

The recording session will feature: Wojtek Grzelak (cello), Oliwia Drejewicz (double bass), Tomek Rudolf (piano), Leon Boursin (trumpet). Kamil Kowalski (graphic layout) and Małgorzata Kaznowska-Filipek (animation) will also take part in the event.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The AUREA PORTA Foundation of Friends of the Arts, which promotes Polish contemporary art, is expanding the Repository of the Works of Bogusław Schaeffer. In 2023, the resource was expanded to include score video (synchronization of recordings and notations): www.boguslawschaeffer.pl/pl/video. Schaeffer's musical notation, often abandoning the symbolism ("code") of traditional notation, pictures (and does not merely "encode") the sound form of works, so following it may be attractive to all those who want to admire the abstract beauty of these graphic non-notes.

The expansion of the Repository is aimed at re-introducing works that are outstanding on a global scale, and often forgotten, into the cultural circulation. The project, which has been developed for a decade and a half, includes the archiving of paper materials (music notes, texts and graphics, manuscripts and facsimiles from the creator's private archive) and their digitization.

Katarzyna Socha, Aurea Porta

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 8^th Piano Competition for Children and Youth under the Honorary Patronage of Rafał Blechacz will be held on the 16^th of March, 2024 at the Nakło Cultural Center. Students of first degree music schools will be able to take part in it. The organizers provide prizes for 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place and distinctions in each group, as well as a special prize for the best performance of a Fryderyk Chopin piece. The deadline for submitting applications is the 25^th of February, 2024.

Over the past years, over 250 participants from various parts of Poland took part in the Nakło Piano Competition. This year the competition will be held in three age groups:

•     Group I: classes I - II
•     Group II: classes III - IV
•     Group III: classes V - VI

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The final concert of the 1^st Warsaw Experiment Studio with the participation of the legendary tubist Zdzisław Piernik and double bassist Sławek Janicki, the originator of the project, will take place on the 13^th of December, 2023 at 20:00 in Hashtag Lab.

The artists will perform Bogusław Schaeffer's Project. There will also be a premiere of the last multidisciplinary work this season, Sonokinetic Cosmodernism, by Qba Janicki and Rafał Ryterski.

Mózg Foudation – Foundation of Contemporary Music and Interdisciplinary Forms is the event's organizer.

Website of the project: www.wse.mozg.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 15^th of December, 2023 at 19.00 Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Antonín Dvořák and Johannes Brahms related to traditional dance melodies. What's more, together with the recognized pianist Piotr Sałajczyk, the Philharmonic will premiere Aleksander Nowak's Piano Concerto.

In recent years, the composer has been most eager to explore the area of ​​opera and musical drama, but he also often uses concert forms of various types and sizes written for outstanding soloists. This time we will hear Concerto per mezzo for piano and orchestra, commissioned by the Silesian Philharmonic.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/tance-szymanowski-dvorak-brahms-salajczyk-shemet/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 9^th of December, 2023 at 11:00 at the Gocław Cultural Terminal (Jan Nowak Jeziorański 24 street) there will be another interactive concert for children (6-12 years old) and parents, "Dominobajka", organized by the Polish Society of Contemporary Music. Admission is free!

We will hear "Dominobajki" by Jarosław Siwiński for piano, drums, showman and children's audience. The piece consists of 15 abstract, fairy-tale elements that appeal to children's imagination, such as Athanasius the Knight, Silver Nuts, Space Rocket, Door, Chase, etc., from which concert participants compose their own micro-stories. Then the musicians play these stories, performing appropriate fragments in the order determined by the children.

Performers: Jarosław Siwiński (piano), Leszek Lorent (drums), Małgorzata Kołcz (audience guide).

Free tickets can be downloaded at https://biletyna.pl/koncert/DOMINOBAJKI-koncert-muzyki-wspolczesnej-dla-dzieci  lor at the tocket office of thr Culture Terminal.

Małgorzata Kołcz

More about the event: https://fb.me/e/gfDvPuVXp 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 7^th of December 2023 at 7 p.m. the Lutosławski Quartet will premiere three quartets at the NFM!

The first of them will be the presentation of the youthful String Quartet No. 1 "A song for string quartet" by Hanna Kulenty, which this world-famous composer decided to make available to performers forty years after it was written. The second one is the 3^rd String Quartet "Screaming Into The Void", composed by Don Davis especially for the Wrocław ensemble, and in the finale we will hear the world premiere of the 6^th String Quartet by Marcin Markowicz, second violinist of the Lutosławski Quartet.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10237 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The fruitful cooperation of NOSPR, Konserthuset Stockholm and the Polish Institute in Stockholm should be celebrated with dance and a bang, especially since the grand finale falls on the celebration of the 110^th anniversary of Witold Lutosławski's birth. On the 11^th of December, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. at the NOSPR premises, participants of the NOSPR Academy and RSPO Academy, united in one ensemble, will play, among others: arrangements of 10 Polish dances by the birthday boy and Albert Schnelzer's Apollonian Dances.

The ensemble conducted by Zofia Kiniorska will also perform Brass Quintet by Grażyna Bacewicz and Children of the Fire by Gabriella Smith.

Free tickets available on the website: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/scena-mlodych-akademia-nospr-i-rspo-academy