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Polish and world premieres, musicians from the Baltic countries, South Korea, and Sweden as well as the leaders of Polish new music scene. The 7th edition of Festival "NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts" will be held on October 25-27, 2018 in Gdańsk.

"NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts" is a festival held in Gdansk, presenting the most interesting trends in contemporary music and art. It is a platform interconnecting artists from different cultural backgrounds and provenances, an event of intriguing and uncommon profile giving a chance for the contact with music and art as awell as a medium expanding new areas of human mind and enriching our world perspective. NeoQuartet, Polish string quartet specializing in performances of new music, is the initiator and originator of the festival.

Each concert of these year edition is planned as multi-disciplinary spectacle. During the majority of events the audience will be an active participant of the creative process. Starting from the inauguration, where NeoQuartet will present the second edition of the unique event called "Neo Electric Quartet" and Swiss artists Arturo Corrales and Emilio Guim will present their "Electric Primitivo" project, through the newest Korean art and presentation of performative music from Baltic countries in The Baltic Sea Culture Centre, finishing with the six hours-long final concert featuring the best European performers of contemporary music (Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, Kwartludium, Rei Munakata) and the performance of the newest multimedia compositions and sound installations by Wojtek Blecharz – this-year's Composer-in-Residence.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: http://neoarte.pl/syntezator-sztuki/ 

On October 25-27, 2018, at the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (26 Długa Street) will host the 47th Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers' Union "The Past in Music - Music towards Tradition".

The year 2018 is also the 70th anniversary of the Section of Musicologists of the Polish Composers' Union, therefore all of you are cordially invited to take part in the conference. The first panel session will be devoted to the history and present, and will feature Katarzyna Dadak-Kozicka, long-term chairwoman of the Musicologists Section, the author of the book Obrońcy dobra powierzonego, which talks about the beginnings of the ZKP and the Musicologists Section; Iwona Lindstedt, editor-in-chief of "Polish Musicological Yearbook," and Sławomir Żerańska-Kominek, editor-in-chief of "Musicology Today". The conference participants' lectures will also be devoted to issues in the history of music as well as etnomusicology, anthropology and sociology of music, incorporated in two complementary thematic areas, announced with the title of conference. The first one concerns various forms of the presence of music of the past in the culture of a given period, the second – the relation of music to a tradition identified with a given musical genre, a center, a region or a social group.

The conference is being prepared by the Program Committee composed of Agnieszka Draus, Paweł Gancarczyk, Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska and the chairwoman of the SM ZKP Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska. The conference is organized in cooperation with the international research project HERA "Sound Memories: The Musical Past in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe" (www.soundme.eu). The project is financed under contract 1013 / P-DUN / 2018 from the funds of the Minister of Science and Higher Education designated for dissemination of science.

Admission to the conference is free.

DOWNLOAD: Program Konferencji.

The next concert of the "Supersam + 1" series of master performances, organised by the „Mózg Foundation”, will be held on June 28, 2018 at 8.00 pm in the Dzik club in Warsaw (44A Belwederska St.)  The main performers will be Szábolcs Esztényi i Anna Jędrzejewska.

Szábolcs Esztényi is a composer, pianist, improviser and a teacher of Hungarian descent, who has been living in Poland since 1969. He studied piano in the class of Margerita TrombiniKazuro and composition in the class of Witold Rudziński on Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyczna in Warsaw (Warsaw Higher Musical Education Public School). As a composer and a soloist he performed in Poland and abroad on many festivals (Warszawska Jesień [Warsaw Autmun], Poznańska Wiosna Muzyczna [Poznań Music Spring], Warszawskie Spotkania Muzyczne [Warsaw Music Meetings], Musica Polonica Nova Festival in Wrocław, Biennale Zagreb, Budapesti Zenei Hetek, Donaueschinger Musiktage and many others. He cooperated with well-known artists such as: Jerzy Artysz, Andrzej Hiolski, Heinz Holliger, Roman Jabłoński, Jadwiga Kotnowska, Wilanów Quartet, Halina Łukomska, Olga Pasiecznik, Jadwiga Rappé, Zygmunt Krauze's Music Workshop, Jerzy Witkowski, Iwona Mironiuk (with whom he has been performing as a piano duo since 1999). He has made many archive recordings for Polish Radio. For many years he has been cooperating with Ferenc Lantos nad Maria Apagyi, the creators of creative music-visual pedagogy and founders of Free Artistic School in Pécs, Hungary. Since 1972 he has been working as a piano teacher in Fryderyk Chopin's Higher Education School in Warsaw, as well as on Music Academy in Warsaw and Łódź. He is a regular guest in many academic centres with his illustrated lectures related to creative pedagogy and teaching improvisation.

Anna Jędrzejewska is a composer, director and an author of multimedia projects such as installations or multimedia shows. Jędrzejewska combines improvisation and contemporary achievements of European art. She is an author of “Mindful Improvisation” – an exercise in intuitive music that combines music and psychology and explores areas of perception, concentration and intuition. She cooperates with Teatr Performer and together with Robert Jędrzejewski she creates a duo of improvising composers. The band creates multimedia projects that combine video, electronics and improvisation.

"Supersam + 1" is a series of master performances. The project focuses mainly on music, however, it also includes other forms of expression such as: performance, multimedia, monodrama. “Supersam + 1” will present respected Polish and foreign artists whose work is original, experimental and innovative.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.supersam.mozg.pl/ 

On October 24, 2018 at 7:00 pm in the Chamber Hall of the Szczecin Philharmonic, there will be a concert of Polish music performed by the musicians of the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

The artists will present, among others, the first of two early string quartets by Stanisław Moniuszko – Quartet in D minor, dedicated to Józef Elsner. The programme will also included a repertoire from the second half of the twentieth century. The five-part String Quartet No. 3 "Wycinanki" (Paper-cuts) by Andrzej Panufnik was written in 1990, when composer return to Poland after 36 years of emigration. Hence, in the title and formal structure a reference to Polish folklore – the symmetry of folk paper-cuts. Another composition for a string quartet is the Overture by Mikołaj Górecki from 2000, which is characterized by a lively theme and constant struggle between tonality and atonality. The programme also covers two trios by contemporary artists associated with Szczecin – Artur Cieślak and Tadeusz Mazurek. The evening will end with the Fantasy Trio, Op. 26 for clarinet, cello and piano by a Polish-American composer born in Chicago – Robert Muczyński.

Information on tickets at: https://filharmonia.szczecin.pl

On October 24, 2018 at 7pm in the Concert Hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, there will be a concert promoting the album of the graduate and pedagogue of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Dariusz Przybylski.

Composer's many years of friendship with drummer Leszek Lorent resulted in one of the most interesting CD albums of recent years. Dariusz Przybylski. Percussion Works is a record that combines classical and sonoristic sound, wildness and shamanism with sophisticated references to great literature.

"Percussion is for me an unlimited treasury of sounds, colors and ways of musical expression. The language of this instrument, based on the rhythm, directly refers to ancient times and archaizes the musical work in a natural way" –  says Dariusz Przybylski.

The album contains five percussion works, including the composition for two percussions Rituals, Subcontrast for percussion and tape, ... the rest is silence ... for percussion and piano duet, and Nekyia for three percussion instruments and a trombone quartet. The pieces will be performed by drummers Leszek Lorent, Rafał Kozyra and Tamara Kurkiewicz, pianists Aleksander Dębicz and Andrzej Karałow, as well as the Instrumental Ensemble conducted by Dawid Runtz.

For all concerts from the cycle "Wednesday on Okólnik Street" tickets for PLN 15 can be purchased at the earliest two weeks before the concert. The sale takes place at the Chopin University Press in the main university hall from Monday to Wednesday and on Fridays from 4 to 7pm, and through the website www.umfc.bilety24.pl. 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.