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Gdańsk | 8th "NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts"

NeoArte

The 8th "NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts" – international festival presenting the most interesting trends in contemporary music and art – will be held in Gdańsk on 23-26 October 2019.

The originator of the festival that focuses on the synthesis of arts is the Tri-City ensemble NeoQuartet, winner of the Pomeranian Artistic Award of 2019. Contemporary composers create works combining video art and theater, visual artists create sound installations, theater and dance are moving towards performative art. It is becoming increasingly difficult to set boundaries between various fields of creativity, and it is becoming easier to combine them.

This year's festival will last five days, featuring nine concerts, two artistic installations, a radio play and several performances. Composition students will have the opportunity to take part in composer workshops led by the festival's patron Gwyn Pritchard, as well as performance workshops presented by Alwynne Pritchard. Children and youth will be able to participate in electronic music creation classes led by Krzysztof Topolski. Each concert is planned as a multidisciplinary performance, which makes the audience paricipate in the artistic process.

In the Gdańsk garrison, the audience will participate and co-create the premiere of the latest project of the Krakow artist Piotr Peszat – Into the Heart of Hearts (2019) for acoustic and electric string quartet, live-electronics and live-video. The finale of the festival, "NeoArte Night" in the New Synagogue, is a challenge for both the audience and performers – the 12-hour concert marathon will premiere latest works by contemporary Polish composers written for piano and string chamber orchestra.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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

Warsaw | Warsaw Wind Ensemble Conducting Competition 2019

Warsaw Wind

The Warsaw Wind Ensemble Conducting Competition 2019 is the first edition of the international competition for wind orchestra conductors, which will be held in Warsaw on 23-27 October 2019.

The competition will consist of three stages and 20 conductors from 11 countries will compete. Participants will be judged by a jury chaired by Prof. Szymon Kawalla, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

The first stage will take place from 23 to 24 October (8:00–10:00 p.m.) at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (auditorium 338). The conductors will be accompanied by two pianists, and the performance will include Dance Sacrale from the ballet The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky and the Bajka Concert Overture by Stanisław Moniuszko. The next stages of the competition will take place in the District Cultural Centre Ursynów. The second stage will be held from 25 to 26 October (4:00–10:00 p.m.). Conductors will lead the Festival Orchestra consisting of musicians from Youth Warsaw Wind Orchestra. The repertoire will include two pieces: Serenade in D minor for wind instruments by Antoni Dvorzak and Film Variations on the theme of the aria “Szumią jodły na szczycie” by Stanisław Moniuszko by Tomasz Dudziński.

On 25 and 26 October, after the competition auditions (8:00 and 9:00 p.m.) there will also be lectures given by pedagogues, composers and musicians (the speakers will be pedagogue and composer Ignacy Zalewski, composer Paweł Pudło, trumpeter musician Bartłomiej Łubian and composer Artur Słotwiński).

The final of the competition will take place on Sunday, 27 October (4:00–7:30 p.m.), during which the 6 best conductors will lead a much larger Festival Orchestra consisting of musicians from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences Representative Orchestra and Youth Warsaw Wind Orchestra. In the repertoire of the finale, Second Suite in F major for military orchestra by Gustav Holst and Overture Year 1918 by Artur Słotwiński. The culmination will be the Gala Concert, which will take place at the end of the Competition, on 27 October at 8:00 p.m. in District Cultural Centre Ursynów. The winners of the Competition will be announced during the concert. The best conductors will receive prizes and conduct the Festival Orchestra, which will perform works from the competition repertoire.

All events are free and all auditions are open to the public.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.wwecc.warsawwindmusic.pl 

Kraków | 3rd Kraków Music Salon: Moniuszko – Żeleński

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The Association of Polish Chamber Musicians invites you to the 3rd Festival "Krakow Music Salon: Moniuszko – Żeleński", which will take place betwwen 24 October and 23 November 2019.

To this day the festival is the largest regular event promoting the work of Władysław Żeleński. This year's edition will be devoted not only to Żeleński, but also to Stanisław Moniuszko on the occasion of his 200th birth anniversary. Both composers highly contributed to the development of Polish songwriting, which is why the festival programme will include three vocal recitals, as well as an orchestra concert with arrangements of Moniuszko's songs, recitals of piano duo, reed trio and string quartet, lectures on the songs of Moniuszko and Żeleński, and Polish songwriting in the 20th century.

The list of performers includes the Messages Quartet, LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio, Ravel Piano Duo, Urszula Kryger, Krzysztof Urbaniak and many others. This year's festival will also promote two CDs: on 17 November Ravel Piano Duo will promote their Polish Kaleidoskope No. 4, while on 21 November soprano Magdalena Molendowska and pianist Julia Samojło will promote the first, complete recording of Zygmunt Stojowski's songs.

Admission to all events is free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: http://www.spmk.com.pl/salon/ 

Radziejowice | Baroque and Contemporary Music

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A chamber concert performed by Agata Kielar-Długosz, Łukasz Długosz and Marek Toporowski will take place on Friday, 25 October 2019 at 7 p.m. at the New House of Art in Radziejowice.

Outstanding musicians, who perform with the best artists around the world, have prepared works by baroque and contemporary composers. Gathered together, they form a peculiar bridge, leading us from the times of the distant past to the present. The concert will be an opportunity to meet the work of those who have gone down in the history of music, and those who create this history today.

The programme, next to works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi, will include compositions written as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme run by the Institute of Music and Dance: Frisium for 2 flutes and harpsichord by Krzysztof Baculewski, Work for 2 flutes and harpsichord by Grażyna Pstrokońska and Cosmo-temporality for 2 flutes and harpsichord by Dai Bo.

The concert is organized in cooperation with the Polish Society of Contemporary Music and the Fifth Essence Foundation. Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund under the "Composing Commissions" programme implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance. The organizers kindly ask you to confirm attendance at the following address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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

Białystok | Postcard from Poland – three Polish composers from three periods

OiFPA concert entitled "Postcard from Poland – three Polish composers from three periods", presenting compositions by Karol Kurpiński, Stanisław Moniuszko and Karol Szymanowski, will take place on 25 October 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic.

This evening shall pass marked by three great Polish names and will take the audience to three musical periods: late classicizm, romanticism, and modernism, here called Young Poland. Karol Kurpiński’s opera The Castle of Czorsztyn contained many national hallmarks: polonaise, dumka, cavatina, or folk song. Haunted gothic castle at Lake Czorsztyn haunts the imagination. Romantic associations bring us to Adam Mickiewicz, but from Polish mountains we will travel to Crimea. To eight chosen poems of his Crimean Sonnets, a cantata was composed by Stanisław Moniuszko for solo voices, choir and orchestra. The atmosphere will be completed and divided by Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto inserted between the latter two. This is the first modern violin concerto, which leaves 19th-century tradition for a new expression. It’s a one-part poem with a beautiful sound aura and fantastic and passionate character.

Piotr Wacławik will lead the Orchestra and Choir of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic as part of the "Conductor-In-Residence" programme. The solo parts will be performed by Krzysztof Jakowicz and Emil Ławecki. The choir is led by Violetta Bielecka.

The concert is co-organised and co-financed as part of the Institute of Music And Dance’s programme "Conductor-In-Residence".

More information athttps://www.oifp.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/

"Tell me a story" – Free Improvisation Workshops for Children

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The workshops for children, during which the youngest participants will learn, play and improvise in the company of great musicians and unusual books, will be held on 25 and 26 October 2019 in three Greater Poland towns: Skoki, Wągrowiec and Krajenka.

Polish Society for Contemporary Music invites children aged 3-5 and 6-8 years old to participate in free improvisation classes together with their guardians. The musical guests of the upcoming workshops will be: Marcin Skaba (violin), Bartosz Smorągiewicz (saxophone) and Jarosław Siwiński (synthesizer). Adventure through improvisation with artists will be led by actor and director Grzegorz Ociepka.

The main idea of ​​the project is to trigger graphic-inspired improvisations. Children will create their own stories based on picture books. The improvised fairy tales will be then "translated" into musical language under the guidance of the class leaders. Improvisation is the most basic, primary and joyful form of music performance, which is why the workshops combine children's creativity and imagination with books and contemporary music.In addition to playing with improvisations and books, children will learn various techniques of sound extraction, which expose its color and dynamic values, and will also be able to play drums on their own.

Participation in the workshops is free – the number of places is limited.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://www.facebook.com/events/795964717504932/ and https://www.facebook.com/events/638156259924325/ 

San Francisco | The World of Grażyna Bacewicz

Bacewicz

The festival dedicated to Grażyna Bacewicz – "The World of Grażyna Bacewicz" – will take place on 18-19 October 2019 in Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco.

The story of Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969) will be presented in three emceed shows interweaving music and narrative: from her brilliant early works from the days as a young virtuoso violinist, through the horrors of World War II and the repressive Polish communist regime that isolated Poland’s artists from the Western world, to the most groundbreaking works created at the end of her life. The audience will have the opportunity to listen to the works of artists who inspired the composer and those for whom her work is now a reference point. The list includes such names as Ignacy Paderewski, Karol Szymanowski, Tadeusz Baird, Andrzej Panufnik, Witold Lutosławski, Marta Ptaszyńska, Hanna Kulenty, Lidia Zielińska and Agata Zubel.

There will also be a screening of the documentary The World Only Sees My Cheerful Face (1999) directed by Dariusz Pawelec. The film will be shown for the first time with English subtitles.

More information at: http://www.bardmusicwest.org/the-world-of-grazyna-bacewicz

Donaueschingen | Premiere of the new work by Lidia Zielińska

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The world premiere Lidia Zielińska's Klangor for orchestra will take place on Sunday, 20 October 2019, during the final concert of the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival.

The new work by Lidia Zielińska was commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival and the SWR2 radio in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The world premiere will be made by SWR Symphonieorchester under the direction of Tito Ceccherini. The programme of the final concert of the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival will also include three other world premieres: Melancholy for chromatic harmonica and orchestra by Saed Haddad, Elemental Realities for orchestra by Jürg Frey, and WÄCHTER for bass flute and pipes orchestra by Eva Reiter.

New music can be a place of retreat and contemplation. The world premieres of the final concert each seek and assert their own place, be it melancholy as an expression of woefulness in the new work by the Jordanian composer Saed Haddad, be it in Eva Reiter’s sound experiment, in which the musicians dispose of their instruments, in search of a pover music. With Lidia Zielińska, the orchestra becomes a gloomy echo chamber that picks up and unfolds a sound of nature.

The concert will be broadcast live at: https://www.swr.de/swrclassic/.

More information at https://www.swr.de/

Warsaw | 2nd International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe "Eufonie"

Eufonie

The 2nd edition of the International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe "Eufonie" will take place in Warsaw on 15-23 November 2019, featuring 640 artists from 20 countries, 15 concerts, 8 orchestras, 3 world premiers and 7 Polish premiers.

"Eufonie" is a music festival, referring to the tradition of the regional community of most countries today referred to as Central and Eastern Europe, stretching from the Balkans, through Romania and Austria, the Visegrad Group countries, the Ukraine and Belarus, to the Baltic countries, sometimes extended to Scandinavia. This area is a fascinating melting pot of influences from the East and the West, boiling with cultural energy which often determined the identity of nations deprived of their own countries. The Festival present music of different eras and styles. This year's programme offer is richer and more diverse compared to the first edition. The repertoire is expanded to include ethnic and early music, as well as theater and dance performances.

In addition to the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, the festival will feature the international I, CULTURE Orchestra, which brings together musicians from the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Not only recognized artists from our region will appear on the festival stages, but also soloists and ensembles from other parts of the world, including United States, Great Britain, Luxembourg or Spain. The programme presented this year will allow the audience not only to become more familiar with the repertoire and musical performance of our neighbors, but also countries not yet presented at the Festival: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova.

An important part of this year's "Eufonie" are works commissioned by the National Center for Culture, which will have their premieres during the Festival: Song of Death – a unique spectacle with the participation of Jan Frycz and Adam Strug based on the text of Master Polycarp’s Dialogue with Death found by prof. Wiesław Wydra, and Incantations performance created by the electronic music composer Aleksandra Bilińska, singer Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska and choreographer Jacek Przybyłowicz..

The festival is organized by the National Center for Culture thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The Polish Composers' Union is the festival's partner. The president of the Polish Composers' Union and the director of POLMIC Mieczysław Kominek is the chairman of the programme board.

More information at: https://nck.pl/projekty-kulturalne/projekty/festiwal-eufonie/