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Event date: 2024-04-30

Media patronge: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Artistic Education Center in Warsaw announces the 3^rd Elżbieta Chojnacka Harpsichord Competition, which will take place at the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Bytom on May 16-17, 2024. The competition is intended for students of primary and secondary music schools. The deadline for submitting applications is the 30^th of April.

The originator of the competition is Dr. Aleksandra Gajecka-Antosiewicz - the heir of Elżbieta Chojnacka, a recognized Polish harpsichordist. The competition's programme formula presents harpsichord literature in two trends: old (the obligatory piece by J. S. Bach) and new. The primary goal of the project is to popularize the performance of harpsichord music of the 20^th and 21^st centuries, including works by Polish composers (mandatory repertoire), and instruments - historical and contemporary.

The competition will certainly awaken passion for performing new music. It will be accompanied by lectures and meetings between students and teachers.

The competition jury includes recognized Polish harpsichordists and composers.

Rules and regulation on the website: https://www.gov.pl/web/osmbytom/konkurs-klawesynowy-im-elzbiety-chojnackiej 

30. Gala Muzyki Poważnej w ramach Fryderyk Festiwal 2024 miała miejsce w siedzibie NOSPR. Konkurs rokrocznie zbiera zgłoszenia w jedenastu kategoriach muzyki poważnej. 28 kwietnia dwiema statuetkami wyróżniono Rafała Blechacza i Deutsche Grammophon: w kategoriach Najwybitniejsze Nagranie Muzyki Polskiej i Album Roku Recital Solowy. Podobnie, jak w zeszłym roku w kategorii Album Roku Muzyka Współczesna nagrodę zdobył album wydany przez Chopin University Press, w kategorii Album Roku Muzyka Kameralna – Większe Składy - krążek CD Accord, natomiast w kategorii Najwybitniejsze Nagranie Muzyki Polskiej - płyta wydana przez Deutsche Grammophon.

A oto lista laureatów:

On the 26^th of April, 2024 for the first time at the Zielona Góra Philharmonic the final concert of the 65^th Tadeusz Baird Composers' Competition took place. 3 prizes and 1 distinction were awarded.

The jury, consisting of: Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (chairman), Alicja Gronau, Rafał Kłoczko, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz and Edward Sielicki, after listening to the works qualified for the second stage of the Competition, decided to divide the Main Prize, and after opening the envelopes, the names of the winners were revealed.

The 1^st prize went to Jakub Jung for Music of Gestures (METHONE emblem), the 2^nd prize - Jakub Borodziuk for the composition Brzask (VOLEREEPOTERE emblem), the 3^rd prize - Bartosz Jawor for Folk Story (MKBEWE emblem).

The distinction was awarded to Magdalena Bobowik, author of the composition Ritorno (emblem X205).

Detailed information: https://www.zkp.org.pl/index.php/pl/zkp-wydarzenia/1181-65-konkurs-mlodych-kompozytorow-im-tadeusza-bairda-rozstrzygniety 

Event date: 2024-04-28

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Concert of the NFM Choir on the 28^th of April at 6.00 p.m., conducted by the respected Slovenian conductor Martina Batič, will be an opportunity to celebrate the 200^th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth in 2024 - his work Christus factus est will be performed, as well as sacred and secular music from various parts of Europe, written over three centuries by Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Frank Martin, Ambrož Čopi and Karol Szymanowski.

More about the programme: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10332 

Event date: 2024-04-28

The 30^th Classical Music Gala as part of this year's Fryderyk Festival will take place on the 28^th of April 2024 at the headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. The Fryderyk Award Ceremony will be accompanied by performances by outstanding Polish musicians. There will also be Polish music, an opera accent and dance rhythms. The soloists will be accompanied by the NOSPR under the direction of Łukasz Borowicz.

Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Łaguniak, who together form the internationally acclaimed Polish Violin Duo, will perform Two contrasts for a duo by Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk, who last year received the ZAiKS Award for composer of the young generation at the Gala of Classical Music.

Details: https://fryderyki.pl/