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The Department of Cello and Double Bass together with the Scientific Circle of Cellists of the Academy of Music in Cracow invite you to the jubilee, 10^th edition of the Cracow Cello Spring Festival, which will take place in 2023 from the 12^th to the 18^th of March.

The purpose of the event is promotion of young talents, promotion of music by Polish composers and development of performance traditions in the field of cello music. This year, an integral part of the project will be the student exchange programme as part of the Erasmus project. Cello students from six universities will meet in Cracow: the Academy of Music in Cracow, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Vienna, Austria), Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland), Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), Conservatorio di Musica Claudio Monteverdi di Cremona (Cremona, Italy) and Conservatorio di Musica Niccolò Piccinni (Bari, Italy).

The programme of this year's Festival includes five concerts and numerous lectures and courses, which will be conducted by recognized cellists. We will hear, among others, music by the University's Patron, Fryderyk Chopin and Aleksander Tansman.

The participants of the 3^rd International Competition of Polish Music have been announced.

On the 8^th of March 2023, a three-member Qualification Committee evaluated the applications submitted by the candidates wishing to participate in the 3^rd International Competition of Polish Music.

The Qualification Committee, in a panel composed of Paweł Zalejski (Chairperson), Robert Morawski and Hubert Rutkowski, qualified 21 pianists and 31 chamber ensembles to the Competition. Ever since it was first held, the Competition has been attracting more and more candidates. In this year applications were sent from 14 countries located on 3 different continents. A total of 113 artists from 10 countries qualified for the Competition. This year’s edition will feature artists from Poland, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Belarus, Germany, Spain and Switzerland.

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More information on the website: www.konkursmuzykipolskiej.pl 

The National Institute of Music and Dance announces the call for applications for the next edition of the artistic programme ‘Conductor – resident’ for the 2023/2024 season. The deadline for submitting applications is the 31^st of March 2023. The budget of the programme edition in the 2023/2024 season is PLN 180,000.

The ‘Conductor – resident’ programme is intended for conductors with Polish citizenship or the Pole's Card, working together with a professional orchestra, or an opera or music theater based in Poland.

A graduate of the faculty of symphony and opera conducting or a person with a bachelor's degree at such a faculty can apply for the programme within three years of obtaining a master's or bachelor's degree.

It is obligatory to include one work by a Polish composer in the residency programme.

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://nimit.pl/aktualnosci/dyrygent-rezydent-sezon-2023-2024-startuje-nabor-wnioskow/ 

The inauguration of the 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music Poznań Music Spring, organized by the Poznań Branch of the Polish Composers' Union, will take place on the 10^th of March, 2023 at 7.00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Adam Mickiewicz University.

Two concerts will be performed by the Poznań Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Łukasz Borowicz: Concerto for trombone and orchestra by Kazimierz Serocki and Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 105 by Krzysztof Meyer. The work Aequinoctium for symphony orchestra by Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, commissioned by the Poznań Philharmonic and the Poznań Music Spring Festival, will be premiered. The soloists will be violinist Anna Ziółkowska, cellist Monika Baranowska and trombonist Wojciech Jeliński.

Festival's website: http://www.wiosnamuzyczna.pl

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

What will the artificial intelligence compose when asked to create a piece in the style of Polish contemporary music? What will a transcription from the works of contemporary Polish composers sound like? What and why do they write music today? Do they actually write it? Or maybe what we listen to, what we like catches our ears only because it is generated by an algorithm adapted to us? Let's find out for ourselves during the jubilee 10th edition of the Festival of Premieres at NOSPR on March 10-12, 2023.

The 10th Festival of Premieres will be an opportunity to get to know new music and meet composers.

During the spectacular inauguration, works by four extraordinary women will be performed: Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Aleksandra Słyż, Teonika Rożynek and Marin Alsop, who, conducting the premiere compositions, will lead the orchestra through the constantly changing depths of the ocean to an alternative reality.