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Poznań | 51st Poznań Music Spring

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The 51^st edition of the Festival will be held in Poznań between May 26-29. During four festival days instrumentalists and singers from Poland and abroad will give ten concerts including composition from 20^th century classics as well as newly composed pieces.

Works by Michele Abondano, Aron Ludwig, Sławomir Czarnecki, Jaromir Gajewski, Maciej Jabłoński, Zbigniew Kozub, Artur Kroschel, Janusz Stalmierski, Katarzyna Taborowska, Sarah Westwood, Agnieszka Zdrojek-Suchodolska and Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz will be premiered at the Festival. Festival events will also include Atelier – special piano concert devoted to the famous Poznań composer Andrzej Koszewski on the 100^th anniversary of his birth.

Amalgalis Duo will also perform at the Festival.

Wroclaw | 33 Musica Polonica Nova - tickets already available!

The 33^rd Musica Polonica Nova Festival will take place between the 25^th and 29^th of May 2022 at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław.

During the five festival days seven concerts will take place not only in concert halls but also in the foyer of the National Forum of Music. Accompanying events are also planned such as meetings with artists, an improvisational ‘after hours’ stage and a concert organized jointly with the Art Exhibitions Office in gallery spaces.

The works of G. Pstrokońska-Nawratil, S. Wojciechowski, S. Kupczak, E. Trębacz, A. Porębski, J. Krzewiński and A. Sowa were created as part of the ‘Composing Commissions’ program carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance. M. Ryczek's Passion was co-financed by the City of Wrocław and Denuo by T. Skweres from the funds of SKE Austromechana. The piece Inner Voyage by G. Pieniek was commissioned by AKM Austromechana.

Press release

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/musica-polonica-nova

Warsaw | Final of the first concert tour of the National Brass Orchestra

On the 24^th of May 2022 at 7.00 p.m. in the Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw, the final of the first concert tour of the National Brass Orchestra lead by Mariusz Dziubek with the participation of soloists: Paweł Gusnar (saxophone) and Adam Rapa (trumpet) will take place.

The programme of the evening will be filled with well-known works in new arrangements - Bolero by Maurice Ravel, Overture from the Flittermouse by Johann Strauss II, Mars from the Planets suite, Op. 32 by Gustav Holst, George Gershwin's Blue Rhapsody with a solo trumpet part, as well as the Pittsburgh Overture for wind orchestra, harmonium, piano and percussion by Krzysztof Penderecki and Concerto for alto saxophone and brass band ‘Birds’ by Japanese composer Toshio Mashima, rarely performed in Poland with an improvised cadence which shows the best qualities of the saxophone. A word about music will be given by Anna Karna.

Tickets available here: https://www.ebilet.pl/klasyka/koncert/symfoniczna-trasa-koncertowa-narodowej-orkiestry-detej/

Łódź | ‘Percussion Art - History and Directions of Development': National Scientific and Artistic Conference

On the 24^th and 25^th May 2022 the Percussion Department of the Academy of Music in Łódź organizes the National Scientific and Artistic Conference ‘Percussion Art - History and Directions of Development ’.

The papers will be presented by artists from music academies all over Poland. The inauguration of the conference is scheduled at 15.30 on the 24^th of May. As part of the conference two evening concerts at 18.00 are also planned. On the 24^th of May the Bacewicz Percussion Ensemble and the Gdańska Grupa Percussion Jeunesses Musicales joined together will present pieces composed in the second half of the 20^th century. On the 25^th of May young percussionists will perform compositions by Marta Ptaszyńska and Jakub Kołodziejczyk for sets of percussion instruments. The concerts will be hosted by Piotr Sutt - the artistic director of the event.
Admission to the conference is free. Tickets for the concerts at PLN 25 and PLN 15 can be purchased at the AM ticket office.

After a note of Marta Włodarczyk

Szczegółowy harmonogram i tytuły wystąpień dostępne na stronie internetowej Uczelni: http://www.amuz.lodz.pl/pl/wydarzenia/sztuka-perkusyjna-historia-i-kierunki-rozwoju

Jerzy Stankiewicz decorated with Gold Medal for services to the City of Toul

From the 29^th of April to the 2^nd of May 2022, the French-Polish Olivier Messiaen Festival was held in Toul, Lorraine, on the 30th anniversary of the composer's death. The initiator and organizer of this event is the musicologist Jerzy Stankiewicz. By preparing the event in Toul, in the place of the composer's imprisonment in the first prisoner of war camp (before transport to Görlitz), Stankiewicz wished to highlight its history, only fragmentarily mentioned in the composer's biography. During this undertaking, the mayor of the city, Alde Harman, decorated Jerzy Stankiewicz with the Gold Medal for services to the City of Toul. Moreover, Jerzy Stankiewicz was invited to the Honorary Committee of the Bach Organ Festival, which has been existing in Toul for over twenty years.

Report on the project and its realization 'Colloque O. Messiaen, Toul 1940'.

Gdańsk | Final Concert of the Composers' Competition ‘Duet with Harp'

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Department of Composition and the Department of Organ, Harpsichord, Accordion, Guitar and Harp of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk invites you to the Final Concert of the Composers' Competition ‘Duet with Harp' which will take place on the 23^rd of May 2022 at 6.00 p.m. in the Senate Hall in the red building of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

The subject of the Competition for students of composition classes at Polish music academies was a 4-6 minute long piece for an instrumental duo with harp. 16 compositions were submitted to the Competition. The Competition Jury awarded 5 prizes and 1 honourable mention.

The winning compositions by Anna Stolarczyk, Piotr Kasiłowski, Szymon Kusior and Magdalena Białecka will be performed by students of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

Detailed programme: https://amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/koncert-finalowy-konkursu-kompozytorskiego-na-duet-z-harfa,977

Poznań | Premiere of the Kacper Smoliński's Concerto

On the 22^nd of May 2022 at 6 p.m. in the Auditorium of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Agnieszka Duczmal will perform a premiere of a Concerto for chromatic harmonica, percussion and string orchestra by Kacper Smoliński. The soloists will be Bartek Miler and composer himself.

The creation of the composition was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Composing Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Jacek Rabiński's Divertimento Amadeus, Emmanuel Séjourné's Concerto for vibraphone and string orchestra and the Dag Wirén's Serenade for strings, Op. 11 will also be performed at the concert.
The concert is organized on the occasion of the 85th birthday of the Programme 2 of the Polish Radio.

Ticket information: www.amadeus.pl

Łańcut | 61st Łańcut Music Festival

Patronat medialny nad Festiwalem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

From the 21^st of May to the 5^th of June 2022, the Music Festival in Łańcut will take place. On the 2^nd of June, as part of the Festival, a concert will be held in the concert hall of the Podkarpacka Philharmonic in Rzeszów with the participation of artists from Ukraine.

On the 21^st of May at the Podkarpacka Philharmonic, there will be a concert with the participation of the Argentine singer, composer and conductor José Cura, accompanied by the Croatian-Slovenian soprano, Martin Zadro. David Giménez will conduct the Symphony Orchestra of the Podkarpacka Philharmonic. The orchestra will also perform at the end of the Festival on the 5^th of June. The Portuguese composer and multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Leão, who will present his original film music, will conduct the orchestra.

After a note of Katarzyna Senderska

Detailed programme: https://festiwallancut.pl/kategoria-produktu/repertuar/

Sopot | 18th Edition of the Mundus Cantat International Choir Festival

Press patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Between the 21^st and 29^th of May 2022 the 18th edition of the Mundus Cantat International Choir Festival Sopot 2022 will take place. 13 choirs from all over the world, including Angola and the Philippines will take part in his year's edition. The guest of the festival will be last year's winner of the Sopot Mewa Award - ASBeek Choir. Admission to all concerts is free.

For the first time after a pandemic break, foreign bands will come to Sopot again - it will be possible to hear them live, not in a virtual version, as it has been for the last 2 years. The competition will include choirs from Angola, the Philippines, Latvia, nd representatives of Poland from Łódź, Gniew, Wejherowo, Przodków, Gdańsk and Gdynia. The participants will be judged by an international jury chaired by Prof. Beata Wróblewska from the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

Accompanying concerts will be held as part of the festival: the music of Polish composers will be heard in Sopot churches, in the open air and in the Social Welfare Center in Sopot. The programme will also include two colorful and spectacular events.

Deatiled schedule: www.munduscantat.pl