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Autumn in Cracow will resound with the sounds of experimental music, as every year! The 21^st Sacrum Profanum will take place on September 23–24 and November 9–12, 2023. The theme of this year's edition will be ‘Multiverse’.

Contemporary music is a heterogeneous field that constantly offers new aesthetic and conceptual spaces. The three main concerts of the festival will create appropriate connections between contemporary music and broadly understood alternative music.

This year, you will be able to immerse yourself endlessly in the minimalist music of Aleksandra Słyż, in a new composition written for Sinfonietta Cracovia. The orchestra will also perform works by the prominent Lithuanian composer Justė Janulytė and the first Polish minimalist Tomasz Sikorski (the 12^th of November this year is the 35^th anniversary of his death).

On the 21^st of September, composer, music theoretician and conductor Henryk Czyżewski, an ordinary member of the Polish Composers' Union since 1974, died in Lublin at the age of 86...

Henryk Czyżewski was a co-founder of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers’ Union; he also belonged to the Polish Society of Contemporary Music.

As a conductor, he led choirs in musical institutions and universities in the Tricity (PWSM, Medical Academy, University of Gdańsk, State Opera and Baltic Philharmonic, Musical Theater in Gdynia). He performed with the choir of the University of Gdańsk, of which he was the founder, for 13 years, winning a number of awards in Western Europe. He led the Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Municipal Cultural Center in Gdańsk (1971-72). He performed approximately 600 concerts in over 20 countries around the world.

12^th International Festival ‘Andrzej Nikodemowicz time and sound’, organized by the Henryk Wieniawski Music Society in Lublin, will take place on September 22 - October 22, 2023. During ten concerts, Polish music will be presented by recognized performers from Poland and abroad.

The opening and final concerts will take place at the Lublin Philharmonic. During the inauguration, the Lublin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, violinist Dominika Falger and pianist Piotr Sałajczyk, conducted by Daniel Mieczkowski, will perform. The festival will close with a concert of pianists Beata Bilińska and Filip Wojciechowski.

Chamber concerts will take place at the Crown Tribunal, Tadeusz Szeligowski Primary and Secondary Music Schools and the Karol Lipiński General Primary and Secondary Music School. Admission to the chamber concerts is free.

The Festival programme includes piano recitals by Anna Górecka and Piotr Banasik, a vocal recital by Ewa Biegas, a chamber concert on the occasion of the International Music Day, and a chamber concert by the Glière Quartet in Vienna. The concert on the 24^th of September with the participation of Cracow Duo - Kalinowski & Szlezer will also be dedicated to the 80^th anniversary of Krzysztof Meyer's birth.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

For the second time, students playing violin, cello, viola or double bass will be able to take part in free Hashtag Ensemble Young Academy workshops. They will be led by the violinist Marta Piórkowska, a teacher at the Karol Szymanowski Music Schools Complex in Warsaw. Learning in great company is beautiful! The organizers are waiting for applications until the 24^th of September, 2023.

Students of music schools of the first degree (grades 4-6/8) and the second degree (grades 1-2) will meet twice a month - on Saturdays at 11:00 - from the 7^th of October, 2023 to the 20^th of April, 2024, will take part in the final concert and receive a certificate of completion of the Hashtag Ensemble Young Academy.

During 12 meetings in the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space, children will learn about contemporary music, improvisation, new techniques and an interesting repertoire.

More details: https://hashtaglab.pl/mloda-akademia/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The International Festival ‘Kaleidoscope of Musical Forms’ in Sopot, thanks to its extensive programme and performances by famous artists (Polish and foreign), is highly appreciated by critics, the Tri-City audience and guests of the seaside resort. During the 23^rd edition, from the 22^nd of September to the 7^th of October, 2023, early and contemporary, jazz and klezmer music will be presented in the historic interiors of Sopot, both performed by titled musicians and participants of the Master Class for Singers.

Those participating in the Festival will be: Witold Lutosławski Orchestra of the Chamber Philharmonic in Łomża conducted by Jan Miłosz Zarzycki, Tansman Trio, Trio Sopot, Ludwik Sarski Orchestra, duo Paweł Nowicki (marimba, vibraphone) and Piotr Nowicki (piano), Anna Mikulska-Argenty (cello), Olivier Lusinach (flute), Philippe Argenty (piano), artistic director of the Festival Dariusz S. Wójcik (bass) and programme director Dr. Jacek Szymański (tenor).

The multicultural character of the Festival will be emphasized by music from different parts of the world. There will also be works by Polish artists: we will hear works by Adam Jarzębski, Fryderyk Chopin, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Alexander Tansman, Andrzej Krzanowski, Edward Pałłasz, Andrzej Dziadek.