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Przemysław Scheller is the winner of the 9th International Composers Competition New Note 2020 in Samobor (Croatia).

His composition The Little Match Girl for string orchestra was selected as the best of the 30 submitted works from around the world. This is the only prize awarded. The winning composition will be performed by the Esperanza Ensemble chamber orchestra during the Samobor Music Festival 2021. The Little Match Girl was composed in 2019 and premiered by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy conducted by Marek Moś during the Festival of Premieres organised by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.

Przemysław Scheller is a composer from Gliwice, a graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon in France. In 2018 he received the Doctor of Arts degree. Currently he works as an assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice and teaches electronic music at his alma mater.

The online premiere of the video performance Roxana's Song directed by Krystian Lada took place on 26 June 2020. The video was commissioned by the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Royal Ballet of Flanders) as part of the #verbeeldingleeft (#imaginationisalive) project.

For Roxana's Song, Kystian Lada was inspired by the opera King Roger, in which the confrontation between mankind and nature is the main theme. Lada sees links between the story and the current pandemic. There are limits to man's unfettered ego, and he must aknowledge nature's superior power. For Lada, the future lies in a precious balance between ego and eco. The voice of the soprano is a force of nature that awakens an awareness in mankind – in this case, a dancer. The project featured Poilsh composer Katarzyna Głowicka and soprano Dagmara Dobrowolska as well as Australian dancer Aaron Shaw.

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen is the best opera company of the year 2019 according to the jury of the International Opera Awards. Due to the difficult situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the institution invited 15 international artists to create video performances in cooperation with their ballet group, choir and orchestra. As part of the alternative online season, a new video is presented every two weeks on the opera's website and social media. Krystian Lada was invited to the project next to leading international choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Alain Platel.

The video materials will be available until the end of the year on the opera's website and social media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKbMs5a12Kk&feature=emb_logo

The online premiere of the video performance Roxana's Song directed by Krystian Lada took place on 26 June 2020. The video was commissioned by the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Royal Ballet of Flanders) as part of the #verbeeldingleeft (#imaginationisalive) project.

For Roxana's Song, Kystian Lada was inspired by the opera King Roger, in which the confrontation between mankind and nature is the main theme. Lada sees links between the story and the current pandemic. There are limits to man's unfettered ego, and he must aknowledge nature's superior power. For Lada, the future lies in a precious balance between ego and eco. The voice of the soprano is a force of nature that awakens an awareness in mankind – in this case, a dancer. The project featured Poilsh composer Katarzyna Głowicka and soprano Dagmara Dobrowolska as well as Australian dancer Aaron Shaw.

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen is the best opera company of the year 2019 according to the jury of the International Opera Awards. Due to the difficult situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the institution invited 15 international artists to create video performances in cooperation with their ballet group, choir and orchestra. As part of the alternative online season, a new video is presented every two weeks on the opera's website and social media. Krystian Lada was invited to the project next to leading international choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Alain Platel.

The video materials will be available until the end of the year on the opera's website and social media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKbMs5a12Kk&feature=emb_logo

The French Critics Association of Theater, Music and Dance (Le Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique Théâtre, Musique et Danse) awarded this year's Prize for the best premiere of the 2019/20 season (Meilleure Création Musicale) to Zygmunt Krauze for his Piano Concerto No.3 "Fragments of Memory".

The Critics Association Award (Prix du Syndicat de la Critique) has been awarded since 1963 and is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of performing arts in France.

The work, commissioned by the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Orchester National de Metz and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw as part of the "Polish Music" and "POLSKA 100" programmes, had its world premiere at the inaugural concert of last year's "Warsaw Autumn", with the composer as soloist and the National Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Wilson Hermanto. The French premiere of the work took place in January 2020 in L'Arsenal Metz with the Orchester National de Metz, also with Zygmunt Krauze and Wilson Hermanto. Thee partners of the project were also the Polish Institute in Paris and the French Institute in Warsaw. The orchestra in Piano Concerto No. 3 included four Veme – new percussion instruments designed by French musician and composer Dominique Delahoche, created in cooperation between the Orchester National de Metz and the Arts et Métiers Metz Polytechnic.

"It is a great pleasure for me to be awarded by French critics with this prize for the second time. I am glad that my works are still valued in France, with which an important part of my creative path is connected" – said Zygmunt Krauze. The composer received the French critics prize for the first time for the opera Polieukt in the 2011/2012 season. Krauze lived in Paris for over a decade, where he both wrote his compositions and actively influenced the formation of the Paris music scene. In the 1970s, Pierre Boulez invited him to act as artistic adviser to the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM).

The recording of the premiere will be available on the 62nd "Warsaw Autumn" Chronicle. A studio recording of the work is also planned.

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