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15th "Mundus Cantat" International Choir Festival – the largest choir event in Poland – will take place on April 28 – May 26, 2019.

One of the most recognizable choir festivals in the country will celebrate its jubilee not only in Sopot, but also in the Tri-City. As part of the festival, we will listen to singers from Belarus, Great Britain, Georgia, France, Lithuania, Colombia and, of course, a strong representation from Poland. "Mundus Cantat" is also a high-ranking competition that enables creative dialogue between choristers from Poland and abroad. The organizers invite adults, seniors, academic, children and youth choirs to compete in several musical categories: sacral music, secular music (including folklore) as well as gospel, jazz, spirituals. The choirs will be judged by the international jury.

Paul Phenix, former tenor of King's Singers (1997-2014) and founder of PurpleVocals, will be the guest of the festival this year. His recital will take place on May 22 in St. George's Church in Sopot. The festival also includes dozens of events: concerts of young artists performing Polish choral music, the Choral Parade of Sopot at "Monciak", the Final Concert with laureates of this year's festival and various forms of artistic expression, such as performance at the train station or Sopot Pier.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: http://munduscantat.pl 

Szczecin Classic, a new festival of classical music organized by the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, will take place on April 27 – May 4, 2019.

The festival will popularize classical music at the highest level, and also serve as an educational platform for all music lovers. One of the main undertakings will be a prestigious Szczecin Classic Academy music course, organized in close cooperation with the Academy of Arts. This year, the Szczecin Classic Festival bears the subtitle "Gramy w Classy", which refers to a hopscotch game with classical music, and aims to facilitate the reception of classical music for a wide audience. As part of the festival, there will be 7 concerts of classical music with the participation of world-class artists, as well as a range of accompanying events: happenings dedicated to different instruments (on Jasne Błonia Square and Grunwald Square), exercises with classics in Anders Park, Stradivarius violin show combined with a lecture, lecture on how to manage your musical career, and baroque dance classes. The programme of the concerts will consist of works by composers from around the world, including Polish ones: Grażyna Bacewicz, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Wojciech Kilar, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Zygmunt Stojowski, and Władysław Żeleński.

More information at: http://szczecinclassic.pl/ 

Representatives of musical institutions, prominent and well-known artists, pedagogues and, above all, entrants of the vocal arts will visit a charming, little town in the South of Poland called Nowy Sącz to attend the jubilee edition of the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry 20th Festival and 18th Competition, the oldest vocal competition in Poland, starting on April 27th, 2019.

The Festival and the Competition, held cyclically every two years, incessantly since 1985, quickly became something more than just a rivalry of singers on stage, promoting the opera art locally, in Małopolska, at a national and international level. From April 27th to May 5th, gifted young vocalists from 14 countries (Poland, Austria, Brazil, Croatia, China, Georgia, the Netherlands, Ireland, Israel, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Italy) will present their skills in front of a jury of artists, opera agents, pedagogues and representatives of music institutions from around the world

Jubilee 20th Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Festival will start on April 27th, 2019, at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice. In an extraordinary event, we will hear a concert performance of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Suor Angelica and Ludomir Różycki’s symphonic poem Anhelli op. 22. It is no coincidence that the works of these two composers are combined: writing the one-act opera Suor Angelica, Puccini was inspired by the cloister act from Różycki’s opera Eros and Psyche. The solo parts will be performed by finalists of previous editions of the Competition, as well as Małgorzata Walewska. The Beethoven Academy Orchestra and the Polish Radio Choir in Krakow will be conducted, for the second time in the Festival’s history, by José Cura, world-famous singer and conductor. The Winners Gala Concert will take place on May 4th, 2019. The soloists will be accompanied by the Orchestra of the Silesian Opera conducted by Maestro Sebastian Perłowski. A day later, on May 5th, the concert of the best singers will be repeated at the Silesian Opera in Bytom.

Detailed programme available at: http://www.adasari.pl/ 

On 24 April 2019, the Jury composed of Krzysztof Baculewski, Mieczysław Kominek, Tadeusz Wielecki and Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek awarded the Annual Prizes of the Polish Composers' Union for 2019.

The Polish Composers' Union Annual Award has been granted since 1949: until 1991 for honoring artists and performers for their outstanding achievements in the field of music, and since 1991 – "Polish composers, performers, musicologists, pedagogues and organizers of musical life for outstanding achievements".

This year's laureates are Stanisław Krupowicz and Teresa Malecka. Professor Stanisław Krupowicz was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award underlining the importance of his compositions for the Polish electroacoustic and computer music scene as well as organizational and promotional activities in this field. Professor Teresa Malecka received a Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of musicology and theory of music, with particular emphasis on her contribution to the foundation of the Krakow School of the Theory of Music.

The award ceremony will take place in September at the 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn".

Polish Radio Programme 2 and Polish Radio Orchestra invite you on April 28, 2019 at 6.00 p.m. to the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio for a symphonic concert on the occasion of Piotr Moss' 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of creative work.

After composition studies at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw in the class of Piotr Perkowski (he also studied under Grażyna Bacewicz and Krzysztof Penderecki), Piotr Moss went to France, where he perfected his compositional skills under the direction of Nadia Boulanger. He currently lives and works in Paris. Piotr Moss is a laureate of numerous intrernational composing competitions. In 2000, Piotr Moss was appointed Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, in 2007 he received an award of the French Académie des Beaux Arts, and in 2009, on the occasion of the 60th birthday and 40th anniversary of creative work, he received a special award from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. He was also awarded with the Medal for Merit to Polish Culture. In 2016 he received a title of Officier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

On April 28, the Polish Radio Orchestra under the baton of Michał Klauza and actor Krzysztof Gosztyła will perform Piotr Moss' melodrama Ugui for reciting voice and orchestra. The concert will start with Stanisław Moniuszko's Overture to the opera Verbum Nobile. The programme will also include Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand, performed by French pianist Hélène Tysman – a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire and music schools in Hamburg and Weimar.

More information at: http://studianagran.com.pl/koncerty/sala-witolda-lutoslawskiego/