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Between April 29 and May 4, 2018, Moldova's residents will have an opportunity to listen to music by Polish composers. Recitals, master classes, lectures, and a symphony concert in the Filarmonica Naţională "Serghei Lunchevici" will take place within the project implemented by the "Porta Musicae" Artistic Association as part of the Polish Music Experience.

On April 29, Marian Sobula will perform a piano recital in the Chamber Hall of the National Philharmonic of Moldova in Chisinau with the works of Fryderyk Chopin and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. On the same day, Jan Kalinowski (cello) and Marek Szlezer (piano) will perform a chamber recital in Rybnica, where they will perform, among others, works by Feliks Nowowiejski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Aleksander Tansman or Ludomir Różycki.

In the first days of May, the artists will conduct master classes for students of the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts in Chisinau and give a lecture on Polish music, during which they will present works by contemporary composers, including Marta Ptaszyńska and Marcel Chyrzyński.

The culmination of the project will be a unique concert in the Concert Hall of the  National Philharmonic of Moldova, during which, under the baton of Paweł Kotla, the Moldovan premiere of Cello Concerto, Op. 43 by Mieczysław Wajnberg, Piano Concerto No. 2 by Wojciech Kilar and the symphonic poem The Steppe op. 66 by Zygmunt Noskowski will take place. The Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Moldova will perform along with Jan Kalinowski and Marek Szlezer.

The concerts are co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.polishmusicexperience.com

The third concert in the cycle "Independant 2018: What's in my soul? Polish music" will take place on May 2, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. in the Municipal Cultural Center "Koszutka" in Katowice (47 Grażyńskiego St.).

The May concert will be filled with vocal works – arias and songs by Polish composers in the interpretation of Marta Gamrot-Wrzoł (soprano), Natalia Skrycka (mezzosoprano) and Bogusława Ciepierska (piano). We will hear arias from The Haunted Manor, Verbum Nobile and Rokiczana operas, and songs from the Songbook for Home Use by Stanisław Moniuszko. The performers will also present lesser-known songs of Stanisław Niewiadomski to the words of Maria Konopnicka, as well as Matki Człowieczej Lament by Edward Pałłasz to the words of Joanna Kulmowa and Wonderful Eyes by Witold Friemann.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Detailed programme at: http://www.silesia.art.pl

On April 27, 2018 at 7.30 p.m. The Warsaw Philharmonic will host a symphony concert "Independent - Created in Free Poland". The programme will feature works of Polish and Russian composers.

The concert will start with Overture for symphony orchestra by Ignacy Jan Paderewski. As part of a Jubilee series of Polish works from the interwar period, the audience will hear the rarely performed Piano Concerto in D‑flat Major by Jerzy Gablenz – a composer and industrialist (an esteemed Kraków vin­egar and mustard manufacturer), a monumental work of neo‑Romantic rapture. As a student of Władysław Żeleński and Feliks Nowowiejski, Gablenz had a solid music background, which gained him considerable recognition in his own lifetime, although he is mostly remembered thanks to his songs. The composer’s son, Tomasz, organised the world premiere of the Concerto in the Dominican Republic (1977, with Józef Stompel on piano), where he lives.

In 1925, Dmitri Shostakovich completed,his Symphony No. 1, on which he had worked for a long time with breaks, and a year later he managed to regain his place in the St. Petersburg Conservatory and submit the Symphony as his graduation project. Its value was acknowledged by his professors, who arranged for it to be performed in public on 10 May 1926 as part of a graduation students’ concert. The work was highly acclaimed, and its success was quickly confirmed in numerous performances abroad (a year after its premiere, it was met with an ovation in Berlin, under the baton of Bruno Walter himself). With this composition, the 19-year‑old genius embarked on a won­derful career as the leading symphony composer of the 20th century. 

The concert is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the NIEPODLEGŁA multi‑annual programme for 2017–2021 and is produced under the patronage of PWM Edition as part of the project TUTTI.pl promoting the performance of Polish music.

Detailed information at: http://filharmonia.pl/

On April 29, 2018 at 6.00 p.m. in the Katowice headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra there will be a master recital, during which the Lithuanian-Polish trio will perform the work of Eugeniusz Knapik, Tha 'Munnot Waste No Time.

Lithuanian pianists Ruta Rikterė and Zbignevas Ibelgauptas, professors of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater as well as NOSPR clarinettist Bartosz Pacan will take part in the April concert. the programme will be filled with music of Polish and Lithuanian composers: Roberto demonai ir angelai by Bronius Kutavičius'(born 1932), SUTAPO Gintaras Sodeika (born 1961), and Tha 'Munnot Waste No Timeby Eugeniusz Knapik (born 1951). Moreover, in the interpretation of musicians we will hear Fantasia in F minor D. 940 by Franz Schubert, symphonic poem Les Préludes by Franz Liszt and La Valse by Maurice Ravel (versions for two pianos).

Tha 'Munnot Waste No Time (Let's not waste time, 1998) for two pianos and a clarinet is one of the few chamber pieces by Eugeniusz Knapik. The work, as described in the PWM catalog, is composer's ''personal, artistic farewell to the twentieth century. Tha' Munnot Waste No Time is the title of one of the chapters of a well-known and once popular (now re-emarging) book for children and young people, i.e. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In the "Warsaw Autumn" festival programme book (1999) Knapik wrote: '' (...) The book, which is addressed to young readers, is about the timeless longings for Harmony, Beauty, Good and Friendship. Its basic premise is that these values are around us, and that often we are very close to them. Unfortunately, so often between the 'secret garden' and us (or maybe inside us), a wall springs up completely covering the object of our desires (...).'' 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information on the NOSPR website.

The Oskar Kolberg Primary Music School in Czasław invites you to take part in the Antoni Cofalik National Violin and Viola Competition for Primary Music Schools' Students, which will be held on June 8-9, 2018.

The aim of the competition is to develop children's musical talent, present their artistic achievements, promote the most talented students, improve  methodological and pedagogical skills of teachers and popularize the work of Professor Antoni Cofalik, an outstanding pedagogue and composer of numerous works for children and youth.

Open auditions will be held on June 8-9, 2018 in the Concert Hall located in the ZSZiO hall of residence in Sułkowice (1 Maja 66 St.). Students of primary music schools, both six- and four-year cycles, playing the violin or viola can apply for the auditions. The organizers provide an accompanist. The compulsory program of the Competition includes works from collections by Antoni Cofalik: At the zoo, At the circus and Aviary. The Laureats Concert will take place in the Sułkowice Concert Hall.

Application form and Rules of the competition are available for download on the website of the Oskar Kolber Primary Music School in Czasław: www.smczaslaw.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.