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21 marca 2023 roku w trybie online odbyło się zebranie Jury Konkursu o Nagrodę im. Ks. Prof. Hieronima Feichta i postanowiło przyznać w tym roku Nagrodę oraz wyróżnienie. Wręczenie dyplomów dwóm laureatom odbędzie się podczas uroczystości otwarcia tegorocznej, 52. Konferencji Muzykologicznej ZKP, w dniu 7 września 2023 roku w Instytucie Muzyki Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.

Jury Konkursu postanowiło jednogłośnie przyznać Nagrodę im. Ks. Prof. Hieronima Feichta panu Miłoszowi Kuli za pracę Symfonie Carla Dittersa von Dittersdorfa oraz ich recepcja w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej i na Śląsku (niepublikowana praca doktorska, Uniwersytet Wrocławski 2021).

Jednocześnie Jury Konkursu postanowiło przyznać wyróżnienie panu Jakubowi Strużyńskiemu za pracę Wilhelm Adolph (1729–1781). Vesperae in F, (red. Jakub Strużyński, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, 2021) z serii "Fontes Musicae in Polonia" C/XXX. ISBN 978-83-66546-64-6, ISMN 979-0-801569-32-5.

We are sad to announce that on the 16^th of March, 2023, Alina Sawicka-Baird passed away at the age of 93.

She was a symbolic figure for the Polish Composers' Union and she bound her whole life with it. From 1953, she worked for the Union, first as a spokesperson, then as office director. Here she met her husband Tadeusz Baird, one of the greatest Polish composers of the 20^th century. She had her friends in the composing and musicological circles associated with the Polish Composers' Union, and she also made friends with outstanding musicians-performers across the Polish Composers' Union. After formally leaving her job, she kept in touch with the Union, took part in our general meetings, concerts and festivals. For years, she funded the main prize of the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers. She was the alpha and omega in the field of union history, often solving issues about which written sources remained silent. We always acted with the awareness of her closer or further presence. It will be harder for us without her.

May she rest in peace!

Polish Composer's Union

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

For the first time in Poland Daniela Cardim and Edward Clug - icons of world contemporary choreography, together with dancers of the Grand Theater in Poznań, will present their visions of Stabat Mater by Karol Szymanowski and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi on the 29^th and 30^th of March, 2023 at 19.00.

In the choreographic interpretations we will find a rich spectrum of emotions - from suffering and mourning, to the affirmation of life, from the breath-holding sense of loss, to the acceptance of what fate brings. The two parts of the performance create a story about a woman-mother. The synergy of sound and movement, the multidimensionality of the message, the perfect interpretation of the dancers of the Ballet of the Grand Theater in Poznań - Stabat Mater by Daniela Cardim and Edward Clug is a performance for today's times.

Press release

More: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/stabat-mater-wieczor-baletowy-cardimclug 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The AULOS Foundation invites you to participate in the 1^st National Instrumental Competition for students of primary and secondary music schools ‘Virtuoso!’, which will take place online on April 17-30, 2023. The deadline for submitting applications is the 5^th of April.

This year's edition is planned online, consisting in delivering recordings. The competition aims to popularize classical music, promoting young artists, creating space for students to present their own artistic personality and raising the level of teaching.

Participants must record two works different in style.

Various age groups apply.

Participants will be assessed by the Jury appointed by the Organizer of the Competition, which will include Polish and foreign lecturers of music universities, instrumentalists, conductors. The jury will select the winners in each category, in each age group.

There are prizes for the winners, including a special prize for the performance of a work by a Polish composer of the 20^th-21^st century, funded by the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC.

Details and rules and regulations available on the website: www.aulos.org.pl/virtuoso 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Polish Chamber Musicians' Association invites you to the 3^rd Easter Chamber Music Festival, which this time will take place at the Palace in Stary Kisielin - Zielona Góra Cultural Center on March 26 - April 4, 2023. The programme of each concert will include Polish music - romantic and the latest. Admission to the events is free.

During this year's edition, performances of artists associated with Zielona Góra are planned, as well as concerts of recognized Polish instrumentalists, including Jakub Jakowicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Marcin Zdunik, Grzegorz Mani. The piano duo Krzysztof Książek and Agnieszka Zahaczewska-Książek, winners of the International Competition of Polish Music, organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance, will perform works by M. Moszkowski, J. Zarębski and S. Rachmaninov. During the concert on the 26^th of March, we will hear Marcin Zdunik's latest Piano Quartet, which was composed as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.