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The final concert of the 64^th Young Composers' Competition, organized by the Polish Composers' Union, will take place on the 16^th of April, 2023 at 12.00 in the concert hall of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow. The event, during which the verdict of the jury will be announced, will take place as part of the 7^th International Festival of Piano Duets ‘Duettissimo!’. Free entrance! 

The programme will include four pieces for a piano duet, selected by the Jury: Bartłomiej Kominek (chairman), Maciej Negrey, Dariusz Przybylski, Bartłomiej Wąsik and Wojciech Widłak. The concert will be performed by two piano duos: Novi Piano Duo (Anna Wielgus-Nowak and Grzegorz Nowak) and Sanami Piano Duo (Justyna Piękoś-Kędzierska and Piotr Kędzierski). 

Compositions such as Iluzja (emblem XC189045), Waves (emblem AZYx11UQ), Qualia (emblem Stochos20) and ConfRotation (emblem CERES) will be presented. 

Since 2020, the Award has been financed by the PZU Foundation. The distinctions are financed by the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union. 

More about the competition: https://www.zkp.org.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

New Music Orchestra on the 16^th of April, 2023 at 18.00 at NOSPR premises will premiere perform compositions Meeting with Jan Tyranowski by Miłosz Jan Pluta and Denuo by Tomasz Skweres. The soloists will be Joanna Freszel and Aya Masui.

Jan Tyranowski - the spiritual master of Karol Wojtyła - was to arouse interest in the future pope in the writings of St. John of the Cross, which caused his internal transformation and, consequently, his entry into the theological seminary. The piece by Miłosz Jan Pluta, inspired by Tyranowski, won the 1^st prize in the 4^th International Patri Patriae Composition Competition organized by the Second Degree Karol Szymanowski Music School in Katowice, as well as a special prize of the New Music Orchestra, which is a performance during the orchestra's concert cycle in the NOSPR chamber hall.

On the initiative of the New Music Orchestra, the composition Denuo by Tomasz Skweres was created. It consists of five parts written to poems by Maria Skweres, referring to the problem of finding an individual in a multifunctional machine, which is the modern city.

We will also hear Agata Zubel's Flash, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Library of Congress and premiered in September 2022 during the 65^th International Festival of Contemporary Music 'Warsaw Autumn'.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/wirtuozi-nowej-muzyki-orkiestra-muzyki-nowej-szymon-bywalec 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The theme of the jubilee 35^th Cracow International Festival of Composers, which will take place on April 15-23, 2023, is spaciousness in music. Free entrance!

During nine festival concerts, the works of composers from Poland, Estonia, France, Japan, South Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Ukraine, the USA and Italy will be presented. The audience will hear 28 world premieres and 14 Polish premieres.

At this year's festival, the aspect of spatiality will be present in numerous compositions, and as a topic it will appear at the musicology session, during which lectures will be given by: Magdalena Dziadek, Małgorzata Janicka-Hear, Maciej Jabłoński and Marcin Strzelecki. The session will be led by Renata Borowiecka.

The special guest of the festival will be the renowned Italian composer Federico Gardella, who teaches composition at the Milan Conservatory. He will give a lecture about his work and conduct master classes with students of composition at the Cracow Academy of Music.

Programme: http://festiwal.zkp.krakow.pl/ 

Marcel Chyrzyński
General and artistic Director

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow invites you to the celebration of chamber ensembles for 176 keys, i.e. the 7^th International Festival of Piano Duets ‘Duettissimo’, popularizing this unique chamber ensemble. Music for two pianos and four hands will be performed by teachers and students of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music and invited guests, including Magdalena Lisak and Bartłomiej Kominek (artistic director of the project) on April 14-22, 2023.

As part of the Festival on the 16^th of April at 12.00 at the Crakow Academy of Music, during the final concert of the 64^th Young Composers' Competition, organized by the Polish Composers' Union, the verdict of the jury will be announced: one of the four world premieres of works for a piano duet will receive the Prize financed by the PZU Foundation; the awards are financed by the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union.

However, the festival calendar includes not only concerts, but also a scientific conference as well as workshops and master classes conducted by recognized pedagogues. There are also music evenings as part of Estrada Młodych and concerts for children performed by children: students of piano classes of music schools in Nowy Sącz, Cracow, Sucha Beskidzka, Słomniki and Żywiec.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Between the 14^th of April and 14^th of May, 2023, the Cultural Events Office of the Institute of National Remembrance is organizing the 1^st ‘Sztuka źle obecna’ Festival, which will be dedicated to artists excluded and censored by the communist authorities in Poland. The festival will take place in seven cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Łódź, Cracow, Nysa and Jelenia Góra. Admission free!

The art that will be presented during the festival carried a rebellion against enslavement, very often referred to personal experiences related to the repressions suffered by Polish society in the years 1945-1990. The festival aims to bring back the memory of artists such as Andrzej Panufnik, Antoni Szałowski, Stefan Kisielewski, Roman Palester, Roman Padlewski, Tadeusz Zygfryd Passern and Stefan Behr, so that their work, once discredited and overlooked, will be reborn from the ashes and gain its rightful place in the canon of Polish music.