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Polska muzyka chóralna zabrzmi w Argentynie

Polska muzyka chóralna zabrzmi w listopadzie 2018 roku w jednym z największych miast Ameryki Południowej, stolicy Argentyny – Buenos Aires.

Wykonawcą koncertów zorganizowanych przez Instytut Rozwoju Sztuki będzie Chór Filharmonii Częstochowskiej Collegium Cantorum pod dyrekcją maestro Janusza Siadlaka. Zespół zaprezentuje publiczności w Buenos Aires perły naszego dziedzictwa muzycznego. W repertuarze Collegium Cantorum, przygotowanego na tournée, znalazło się miejsce dla utworów Wacława z Szamotuł, Szymanowskiego, Wiechowicza, Pendereckiego czy też Łukaszewskiego i Widłaka. Polski zespół da koncerty między innymi w Kongresie Narodowym, a także w najważniejszej świątyni Buenos Aires – Catedral Metropolitana.

„Polska muzyka chóralna zasługuje na sławę na całym świecie, a szczególnie w Argentynie, która jest domem dla wielu naszych rodaków. Tym bardziej cieszy nas, że zespół będzie mógł zaprezentować ją w prestiżowych przestrzeniach” , mówi Janusz Siadlak, dyrektor chóru Collegium Cantorum. Podczas intensywnych dni, jak zapewniają organizatorzy, artyści nie zapomną o argentyńskiej Polonii.

Podczas wizyty organizatorzy i artyści spotkają się z przedstawicielami największych organizacji polonijnych w Argentynie (Związek Polaków w Argentynie, Polska Misja Katolicka, Argentyńsko-Polskie Stowarzyszenie Kulturalne), a także z członkami klubów i domów polskich w Buenos Aires i Santa Fe.

Sponsorem projektu „Patriotyzm Nieśmiertelny” jest PKN Orlen. Zadanie współfinansowane w ramach sprawowania opieki Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej nad Polonią i Polakami za granicą w 2018 roku.

Kolonia | Koncert Jubileuszowy Zygmunta Krauzego

28 listopada 2018 roku w kolońskiej Kunststation St. Peter o godz. 18.00 odbędzie się Koncert Jubileuszowy Zygmunta Krauzego związany z 80-tą rocznicą urodzin kompozytora.

W programie znajdą się utwory jubilata (Poemat Apollinaire’a, Quatuor pour la naissance), temA Helmuta Lachanmanna oraz nowy utwór Marcina Stańczyka pt. Unseen (2018) na głos, zespół i elektronikę.

Utwór Unseen jest trzecim z kolei, w którym kompozytor proponuje publiczności założenie opasek na oczy i doświadczanie dźwięków bez udziału zmysłu wzroku. Letnie przesilenie, równonoc, to szczególny czas, z którym od wieków wiąże się wiele mitów i wierzeń. W całej niemal Europie obchodzono dawniej święto natury, ognia, wody, równowagi żywiołów i miłości. Kulminacją obrzędów związanych z równonocą był rytuał poszukiwania magicznego kwiatu, w Polsce zwanego „kwiatem paproci”. Zerwanie go miało zapewnić znalazcy szczęście, bogactwo i powodzenie, a w razie niebezpieczeństwa – niewidzialność. Tytuł utworu odzwierciedla więc jego program. Unseen został zamówiony przez E-Mex Ensemble i Ministerstwo Kultury i Nauki Nadrenii Północnej-Westfalii.

Kompozycje zaprezentuje wspomniany niemiecki zespół E-Mex Ensemble, zaś partię solową wykona znakomita Agata Zubel.

Koncert organizowany jest przy współpracy z Instytutem Polskim w Düsseldorfie, niemieckim radiem Deutschlandfunk oraz Polskim Wydawnictwem Muzycznym.

Wstęp na koncert jest wolny.

Warsaw | 14th International Contemporary Music & Visual Arts Festival "Mózg Festival"

14th International Contemporary Music & Visual Arts Festival "Mózg Festival" will take place on November 21–24, 2018 in Warsaw.

International Festival of Contemporary Music and Visual Arts „Mózg Festival” is an encounter of artists who work and create in all areas of contemporary music as well as performance art and multimedia installations where music plays an important part. Artists who participate in the festival come from all around the world. In the years 2016-2018 each edition of the festival had a motto, which directed the attention to problems emerging in the modern world. In 2018 the topic of the festival is: "Spirituality is everywhere".

The Warsaw edition of the Festival, which began on September 22 in Bydgoszcz, will be opened on November 21 with a projection of two films: Sherlock Holmes and people of tomorrow, which was made by a student of Bogusław Schaeffer, contemporary music composer Tomasz Gwincinski, and Zen for nothing, directed by Werner Penzel with the music of the illustrious Fred Frith – the artist who has been cooperating with the director for many years and was an inspiration for many events in the history of the Festival.

On November 22, Krzysztof Gruse will open his installation at the DZiK Club. November 23 will feature the performance Spirituality is universal (John von Sturmer / Krzysztof Gruse / Sławek Janicki) and concerts of Szymon Gąsiorek & Kresten Osgood and outstanding Eli Keszler & Rashad Becker – masters of modern electronics and avant-garde, legendary experimental scene. The festival will end with musical performances of selected artists associated with the Dym Records publishing house in Gorzów. As part of the festival's guiding motto, the presented works will be a personal attempt to interpret the phenomenon of spirituality through sound.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://festiwal.mozg.pl/warszawa

Wodynie | Mazovian Musical Meetings without Barriers

The fifth concert of the cycle "Mazovian Musical Meetings without Barriers" will take place on November 17, 2018 at 6.00 p.m. at the Municipal Cultural Center in Wodynie.

The concert programme includes string quartets from different epochs: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, VIII String Quartet in C minor, Op. 110 by Dmitri Shostakovich and selected works for string quartet by Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The works will be presented by The Time Quartet, composed of graduates of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw: Maksymilian Grzesiak (I violin), Katarzyna Boniecka (second violin), Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska (viola), Małgorzata Duź (cello).

The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the "Composition Commissions" programme implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance. Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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6th Katowice Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

Between November 16 and December 1, 2018 six different concerts of all three artistic ensembles of the Silesian Philharmonic and invited guests will be held as part of the 6th Katowice Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

The concerts evoke the memory of the patron of the Festival, who this year would be 85 years old. The motto of the event are the words of Paul VI: "This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair".

The opening concert (November 16) will feature Isle of the dead by Sergei Rachmaninov and Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. According to the tradition, it will also premiere a new work by Mikołaj Górecki. This year it will be Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, which was written as part of the ministerial programme "Composing Commissions". It is dedicted to Professor Roman Widaszek, who will perform the work along with the Symphony Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmonic under the baton of Jacek Rogala.

On November 24 we will hear Three pieces in old style and Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra by H.M. Górecki as well as works by Karol Szymanowski, Erich Korngold and Krzysztof Penderecki. A special concert on the occasion of Penderecki's 85th birthday (November 25) is also included in the programme of the 6th Katowice Days.

The performance of Verdi's Requiem on November 30 will be a tribute to the Patron of the Festival. During the final concert, held within the cycle "The Connoisseur Philharmonic" on December 1, we will hear sounds of Górecki's beloved Tatra Mountains recalled by the Jan Karpiel Bułecka ensemble.

Full programme available at: https://www.filharmonia-slaska.eu/

1st Polish Radio Chopin Festival

The first edition of Polish Radio Chopin Festival will be held on two November weekends: November 16-18 and November 24-25, 2018. The event is organized in cooperation with the Poznań Musical Theater as part of the "Chop (in) Poznań & Wielkopolska" project.

The festival will consist of five concerts. Three of them (16, 24, 25 November) will be held in Poznań, while the other two (17 and 18 November) at the Hunting Palace of the Radziwiłł Princes in Antonin, in which Chopin spent his holidays in 1827 and 1829. It was there that the composer wrote his Polonaise for cello and piano, Op. 3.

The Polish Radio Chopin Festival will open with a recital of Jan Krzysztof Broja. The next piano recital under the title "Rondo dla polacca" will feature works of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, as well as compositions by Chopin, Tansman and Szpilman int he interpretation of Marek Bracha. In the third concert – "Magic Flutes: from Vivaldi to Górecki" – we will hear a duet of Polish flutists: Agata Kielar-Długosz and Łukasz Długosz with the accompaniment of an outstanding pianist Andrzej Jungiewicz. The concert "Between Warsaw and Modernist Poznań" will be devoted to Polish vocal lyric poetry focussing around Chopin, Moniuszko, Karłowicz, Paderewski and Nowowiejski. In the final concert, Hubert Rutkowski will present a repertoire related to the music of composers whom Chopin highly valued (Beethoven, Schumann) as well as contemporary artists. During this recital, we will hear for the first time Two Arabesques fo piano by Paweł Mykietyn's, commissioned by Polish Radio.

Admission to four out of five concerts is free. All concerts will be broadcast on Polish Radio Chopin.

More information at: https://www.polskieradio.pl/326/6378/Artykul/2213772,Festiwal-Radia-Chopin

Warsaw | Krzysztof Penderecki Festival

The Krzysztof Penderecki Festival, on the occasion of the composer’s 85th birthday, will be held on November 16-23. A birthday week will culminate in a concert at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera on the Professor’s birthday.

During 7 symphonic and 3 chamber concerts one can hear works representing the master's creative path: from avant-garde pieces from the 1960's to works from the last years (String Quartet No. 4, Symphony No. 6 "Chinesische Lieder"). The Festival will premiere Piano Trio written for the Penderecki Trio and a new "edition" of the Double Concerto in the version for flute and clarinet (arranged by Michel Lethiec).

The following Polish ensembles were invited to participate in the Festival: Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Sinfonia Varsovia, Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, National Philharmonic Choir, Grand Theater and National Opera Choir, Kraków Philharmonic Choir, Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir, Polish Chamber Choir, Warsaw Boys' Choir. The group of conductors includes: John Axelrod, Rolf Beck, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Jacek Kasprzyk, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Andres Mustonen, Alexander Liebreich, Rafael Payare, Leonard Slatkin, Tadeusz Strugała, Maximiano Valdés.

Among the outstanding Polish and foreign soloists participating in the Festival are the names of world-famous musicians – the composer's friends who were the first performers of his works, such as: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Arto Noras , Ivan Monighetti, Yuri Bashmet, Danjulo Ishizaka, Gábor Boldoczki, or the Shanghai Quartet.

Full programme available at: http://beethoven.org.pl

Premiere of Paderewski's "Manru" in the Kraków Opera

On November 16, 2018 at 6.30 p.m., the Krakow Opera will host the premiere of the only opera by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, directed by Laco Adamik.

Due to the intense piano career of the outstanding instrumentalist, Manru was being written for 8 years. It is a story of unhappy love, which also outlines the subject of social differences and lack of tolerance. One of the main characters – Ulana – suffers from mother's rejection and the lack of acceptance of her marriage to Gypsy Manru. She is also insecure of her husband's love, in whom the longing for a "Gypsy" lifestyle and the old feeling for Gipsy Azya slowly begin to rise.

During the premiere performance, outstanding soloists will perform with the accompaniment of the Krakow Opera Choir and Orchestra under the direction of Tomasz Tokarczyk. The performance is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund. The event is held under the patronage of the PWM Edition as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting performances of Polish music.

The Kraków Opera also invites you to participate in the competition for the best review of Manru performance.

More information available at: https://www.opera.krakow.pl

Kraków | 26th Audio Art Festival

26th edition of Audio Art Festival will take place in Kraków on November 16-25, 2018.

Audio Art is an experimental and postmodernist art of the close of XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. Audio Art is an integration of sound and visual art. Presentation of Audio Art appears in form of the concert, performance and installation. Audio Art creates new concept of sound source: as an object and musical instrument in certain space and time. Audio Art is a "one person art": composer, designer and performer unify the whole process of art creation. Audio Art uses low and high technology. Audio Art Festival presents individual artists from all over the world. Festival also presents other non-audio art events extending the whole image of the art based on sound.

The Festival will feature installation Perception of the Spheres by Piotr Madeja, made under the direction of Marek Chołoniewski. On November 17, we will hear compositions by Jagoda Szmytka in the interpretation of Małgorzata Walentynowicz. On November 23, Krzysztof Cybulski will perform his latest works at the Academy of Music in Kraków and give a lecture entitled Acoustic Harmonic Synthesizer. The next day, Martyna Kosecka and Idin Samimi Mofakham will give a lecture entitled Sound Walk – an open form and perform their works in cooperation with Krzysztof Gawlas's mobile orchestra. The members of the orchestra create software instruments for mobile devices. Each performer also has its own set of stereo speakers with an amplifier that allows virtual instruments to emit sound in a manner similar to acoustic instruments.

Audio Art Festival events are webcasted live.

Full programme available at: http://www.audio.art.pl/