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On the 9^th of June, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. at the Witold Lutosławski Chamber Philharmonic in Łomża Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, Anna Bernacka and Monika Kruk will perform as part of the Polish Music Scene Programme, co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance and Philharmonics throughout Poland.

The project focuses mainly on the works of the Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg, which have not been performed nor recorded so far. Its aim is to popularize composer’s chamber lyrics to the texts of Polish poets on the 25^th anniversary of the composer's death.

The programme will also include Piotr Perkowski's Uty japońskie and Zbigniew Popielski's song cycle To sleep.

More: http://www.filharmonia.lomza.pl/wydarzenia/najblizsze-koncerty/item/786-scena-muzyki-polskiej-7.html 

Sinfonia Varsovia invites you to its summer festival Sinfonia Varsovia to its City. The 22^nd edition comprises of 11 orchestral, chamber and family concerts including electronic, experimental and jazz music. Orchestra musicians as well as invited guests from Poland and abroad will perform at the Festival. The festival will be held on June 7–28, 2022 at the orchestra's premises in Warsaw's Kamionek district. Music and movement workshops ‘My body - my place - my music’ will accompany the concerts.

Aleksandar Marković - since September this year the orchestra's first guest conductor - will lead the Orchestra at the inaugurating and closing concert. On the 14^th of June Jerzy Maksymiuk, the founder and long-time chief conductor of the predecessor of Sinfonia Varsovia, the Polish Chamber Orchestra, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, will conduct the Orchestra. Concert for string orchestras by Grażyna Bacewicz and Sinfonietta for two string orchestras by Kazimierz Serocki will be performed on the 14^th of June whereas the premiere of Mikołaj Majkusiak's Brass Concerto commissioned for Sinfonia Varsovia on the 28^th of June.

More information: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org 

During the 68^th International Composers' Tribune organized by the International Music Council in Italy between the 31^st of May and 3^rd of June 2022, two main prizes were awarded to: Monika Szpyrka for Parts among Parts (2021) for accordion and orchestra (in the 'Young composers' category) and Kristine Tjøgersen Norwegian composer for Between Trees (2021) for orchestra and electronics (in the main category).

The composition by Aleksandra Gryka emptyloop was among the 13 compositions recommended by the jury to be broadcast by global radio stations and for concert presentations. The work, commissioned by the 'Warsaw Autumn', was performed during the Festival in 2021 by the Jack Quartet.

Monika Szpyrka's piece Parts Among Parts, also commissioned by the Festival, was premiered last year by Klaudiusz Baran and the EWCM orchestra conducted by Rudiger Bohn.

Thanks to the cooperation of IMC with Radio Television Portugal - Radio Antena 2 Monika Szpyrka received a commission for a chamber piece, which will be premiered and recorded in Portugal.

Congratulations!

More: http://rostrumplus.net/2022/06/03/68th-international-rostrum-of-composers-selection-announced 

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On the 4^th of June 2022 at 7.00 p.m. the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Marek Wroniszewski and Emilia Głombica will perform. The winner of the Young Musician of the Year 2022 Competition, violinist Milena Pioruńska, who will represent Poland at the 20th Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Montpellier, France, will perform the Antonín Dvořák Violin Concerto, Op. 53.

Milena Pioruńska is a student of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Secondary Music School in Poznań and is already proud of her rich artistic achievements - as a soloist she has performed in over 150 concerts, also with orchestras.

The concert programme also includes Melody in A minor by Myrosław Skoryk and Symphony No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

After a note of Piotr Maculewicz

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/ 

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Violinist Johan Dalene and pianist Nicola Eimer will perform on the 4^th of June 2022 at 19.30 as part of the ‘ECHO Rising Stars’ series at the NOSPR premises. We will hear pieces by Grażyna Bacewicz, Christian Sinding, Jean Sibelius, Arnold Schönberg, Maurice Ravel and Companion (seasons) Tebogo Monnakgotla for solo violin (commissioned by Konserthuset Stockholm and the European Concert Hall Organization).

‘Rising Stars’ is a series of chamber and symphonic concerts as well as solo recitals performed by young artists. It is a joint undertaking of institutions associated in the European Concert Hall Organization.

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/echo-rising-stars-johan-dalene-nicola-eimer