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Oskar Kolberg 1^st degree Music School in Raciechowice announces the 3^rd Antoni Cofalik Violin and Viola Competition, which will take place on June 13-15, 2024. The deadline for submitting applications is the 20^th of May.

The competition is open to violinists and violists born after the 31^st of December, 2007.

The compulsory programme of the Competition includes works by Polish composers, including miniatures by Antoni Cofalik from the collections W zoo, W cyrku and Ptaszarnia.

Prof. Antoni Cofalik will be the chairman of the jury.

All participants of the Competition will receive diplomas of participation. Prizes will be awarded to the winners. A special prize will be awarded for the best performed piece by Antoni Cofalik. The culmination of the Competition will be the Winners' Concert, which will take place in the Concert Hall in Raciechowice.

Event date: 2024-05-08

The European Center Memory, Education, Culture invites you to a unique concert of the Berlin duo Kermani-Gentili (Kymia Kermani, clarinet, and Alba Gentili-Tedeschi, piano), as part of the project "Berge unterwegs zum Mond" (Mountains on the way to the moon) on the 8^th of May 2024 at 5 p.m., the Polish premiere of works by Magdalena Buchwald, Joanna Stępalska-Spix, Gabriela Moyseowicz and Ida Gotkowsky will be performed.

The project, presenting Polish-German musical connections in Berlin, Hamburg, Karlsruhe and Görlitz / Zgorzelec, was created with the support of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media (BKM), the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and the Ilse Foundation and Dr. Horst Rusch.

During the concert in Zgorzelec, we will hear for the first time Transitiones by Magdalena Buchwald (composed especially for this occasion), Zur Erinnerung by Joanna Stępalska-Spix arranged by Barbara Heller for clarinet and piano, Duo für Uli und Tina Metz by Gabriela Moyseowicz and Image de Norvège by Ida Gotkowsky.

We will also hear works by Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar, Agata Zubel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski, Fryderyk Chopin, Tadeusz Baird, Grażyna Bacewicz and Zbigniew Rudziński.

Event date: 2024-05-05

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Every year, the Grand Theater in Poznań throws a birthday celebration for its patron. This year, as part of the celebration of the 205^th anniversary of birth of Stanisław Moniuszko, on the 5^th of May, 2024 at 6.00 p.m. in the Theater Foyer we will hear his songs, arias, duets and musical surprises...

In addition to Moniuszko's masterpieces, we will hear forgotten works by Konstanty Gorski, Jan Skrzydlewski, Henryk Opieński and Adam Münchheimer. Classics and musical discoveries in one programme!

Ticket information: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/moniuszko-kameralnie-2  

Event date: 2024-05-04

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Silesian Philharmonic - Silesian Chamber Orchestra conducted by the director of the Silesian Philharmonic, Adam Wesołowski, will perform during a concert organized on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition at the Museum of the Upper Silesian Land in Ratingen on the 4^th of May, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., dedicated to the silver mine in Tarnowskie Góry.

The Tarnowskie Góry silver mine, like the Zollverein mine and coking plant industrial complex, is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The event also commemorates the 20^th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union.

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Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/essen-niemcy-gajecka-antosiewicz-wesolowski/ 

Event date: 2024-05-03

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 3^rd of May, 2024 at 7.00 p.m. the Zielona Góra Philharmonic invites you to a special May musical evening. Piano virtuosos - Książek Piano Duo - thanks to the National Institute of Music and Dance, will perform as part of the "Polish Music Scene" programme.

Performed by Agnieszka Zahaczewska-Książek and Krzysztof Książek, we will hear pieces by Karol Szymanowski, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Ignacy Friedman, Juliusz Zarębski, Roman Maciejewski and masterpieces by Fryderyk Chopin.

Additional information: https://filharmoniazg.pl/events/scena-muzyki-polskiej-koncert-kameralny-3/