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Żaneta Rydzewska's improvisation concert, accompanying Agnieszka Mastalerz's exhibition "Who is dancing for me?", will take place in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum Concert Hall on the 20^th of March, 2024 at 5 p.m.

Agnieszka Mastalerz's video installation, which consists of two independent images, is complemented by an ambient soundtrack by Żaneta Rydzewska. The improvisation will be based on processing and looping sounds recorded in the spaces shown on the video.

Before the concert, there will be a conversation with both artists about the sources of inspiration and the interwining of arts.

Reservation of free entrance tickets is required at the ticket office or on the website: https://bilety.nifc.pl/rezerwacja/termin.html?id=643&date=2024-03-20 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Does the instrument sound different in different instrument configurations? How will a flute playing together with a string quartet sound in a diverse repertoire? How does musical texture affect the perception of its timbre? To answer these questions, on the 14^th of March at the National Forum of Music the musicians of the Lutosławski Quartet will join forces with Carlos Bruneel - Belgian flutist whose victory in the prestigious Tenuto competition many years ago gave him a ticket to an international career.

The artists of the Lutosławski Quartet will begin the concert by performing their own version of Witold Lutosławski's String Quartet - his only quartet, which was created as a result of a commission placed by Swedish Radio on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Nutida Musik series of contemporary music concerts.

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10330 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 15^th of March, 2024 at 19.00 Jong-Jie Yin - winner of the Golden Baton of the 11^th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition - will conduct the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, performing works by Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Karol Szymanowski. The soloist of the evening will be Sara Dragan, one of the most promising violinists of the young generation.

The evening will open with the Overture to the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. In the second part of the programme, Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, will be performed by the violinist Sara Dragan, who plays Nicola Amati instrument, dated 1666, which will certainly influence, thanks to the unique sound of this violin, the concert experience.

More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/laureat-xi-miedzynarodowego-konkursu-dyrygentow-im-g-fitelberga-weber-mendelssohn-szymanowski-dragan/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The PRO Hashtag Ensemble Academy is a year-long mentoring programme run by Hashtag Lab and aimed at students and graduates of music academies wishing to develop their interest in cutting-edge music. It will be presented during the upcoming concert of young professionals, participants of the programme, conducted by Julia Janaszek, on the 14^th of March, 2024 at 7 pm.

The participants, selected through a competition, take part in numerous workshops and master classes, led by Hashtag Ensemble musicians and invited guests. The concert programme will includes works proposed by the participants, analyzed and performed during the workshops. We will hear Black Arrow by Sungji Hong, Mathematikous by Yair Klartag, Grāmata cēllam (part II Pianissimo) by Pēteris Vasks, Paludes by Tristan Murail, In my head... by Wojciech Blecharz, Accotango by Krzysztof Olczak, among others.

In addition, compositions dedicated to PRO Academy participants will be premiered: Silent Piece by Wojciech Glądys and Aether by Wojciech Blażejczyk in the version for sextet.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Krasnystaw Regional Museum and the Lublin Branch of the Polish Composers' Union would like to invite you to an author's meeting and piano recital by Prof. Mariusz Dubaj on the 12^th of March, 2024, at 4 p.m., on the occasion of his 65^th birthday. The programme of the concert "In the circle of Mariusz Dubaj" will include works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Frederic Chopin, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Wojciech Kilar and the Jubilate author's Jubilee Composition X on the occasion of the 630^th anniversary of Krasnystaw. Admission is free!

The Krasnystaw-born composer, music theorist, pianist, pedagogue and organizer of musical life serves as president of the Lublin Branch of the Polish Composers' Union. He is the winner of many awards in composition competitions at home and abroad, as well as honors (including "Golden Carp" Krasnystaw 2000, Medal for Merit to Culture "Gloria Artis" 2015). His works have been performed at many concerts and festivals (in Poland, Italy, Germany, England, France, Greece, Holland, Japan, Portugal, Hungary, Ukraine and the United States), recorded for albums (including DUX, King Records in Japan), for radio and television, and published in print (by PWM, Polihymnia).

The meeting with Mariusz Dubaj will be hosted by Dr. Ewa M. Zarzycka.

Additional information: https://www.muzeumkrasnystaw.pl/aktualnosci/n,353563,recital-fortepianowy-prof-mariusza-dubaja.html# 

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On the 6^th of March, 2024 at 6.00 p.m. in the Chamber Hall of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław a Concert of the Winners of the 15^th edition of the Kłodzko Piano Competition, organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Lower Silesian Society in Wrocław and PSM Fryderyk Chopin Music School of 1^st degree in Kłodzko will take place. Free entrance!

The concert is a realization of the Special Award for the competition winners, funded by the Rector of the Academy, Prof. Krystian Kiełba.

Performers: Natalia Mirosz (1^st group, 2^nd place), Zofia Zaleska (3^rd group, 3^rd  place), Bruno Bończyk (1^st group, 3^rd place), Julia Krajewska (2^nd group, 3^rd place), Kaloyan Kaludov (2^nd group, 3^rd place) ), Mikołaj Ożga (2^nd group, 2^nd place) and the duo of Marcel Forgiel (3^rd group, 2^nd place) and Natalia Klepuszewska (1^st group, 3^rd place).

In 2024, the competition becomes international and will be held in two formats: stationary and online on May 17-18, 2024. The deadline for submitting applications is the 30^th of April.

Website: http://www.chopinwroclaw.eu/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

March 8, International Women's Day, will be celebrated at the Silesian Philharmonic in an atmosphere of awe at the beauty of music. The Silesian Chamber Orchestra, together with Łukasz Szubski, has prepared a unique programme for this evening, filled entirely with works dedicated to ladies. Shen Yiwen - winner of the Vienna International Conducting Competition "Wiener Schule" 2023 - will be behind the conductor's desk.

Thus, we will hear the Bagatelle "For Eliza" and the most famous - the first - movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, Robert Schumann's Dream, Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder-Walzer, Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor, which he dedicated to his sister Ludwika, Antonín Dvořák's Two Waltzes, and Wojciech Kilar's music for the film Portrait of a Lady.
Pianist Łukasz Szubski will perform as soloist.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The new NOSPR organ is the largest such instrument in the region! On the 11^th of March, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. it will part of a concert of young musicians of the NOSPR Academy in a piece that would be perfect as the soundtrack to a sci-fi movie or an epic computer game.

Hailed as ecstatic and saturated with contradictions, the Concerto in G minor for organ, timpani and strings is one of Poulenc's most outstanding works. The young musicians of the NOSPR Academy, conducted by Vincent Kozlovsky, will also reach for Béla Bartók's Dance Suite, which already during the composer's lifetime became a symbol of thoroughly modern music and immediately found its way into the repertoire of many orchestras.

Alexandra Kozowicz

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/scena-mlodych-orkiestra-akademii-nospr-and-vincent-kozlovsky 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Lenten concert entitled "Carmina Dolorosa" ("Sorrowful Songs") will feature songs understood literally and symbolically, as an instrumental meditation on the texts.

On the 10^th of March, 2024 at 6 p.m., the Church of Creative Communities in Warsaw (Plac Teatralny 18) will host the premiere of Psalms and Songs of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh by Katarzyna Brochocka. Free entrance!

On one hand, Katarzyna Brochocka's compositions allude to the centuries, old history of works of a penitential and ascetic character. On the other hand, they introduce a new quality and a fresh perspective of a young but already recognised composer, living in our times and currently working in Warsaw. Brochocka's works are characterised by an expressive musical language, an extraordinary 'theatricality' of means of expression, which the artist combines with respect for the tradition and forms of previous eras.

The concert will feature two world premieres: Psalm 32 for bass voice and double bass and 'Songs of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh' for piano solo - a cycle of meditations on texts from the book of the prophet Isaiah. Psalms 16 and 131 in a new Latin version will also be heard in public for the first time. The repertoire will also include 'Soliloquia' for solo bass, a kind of 'songs without words' based on selected pericopes from the New Testament.

The piano for the concert is provided by KAWAI.

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