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The official gala of presenting the award of the Polish music community Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej will take place on the 13^th of November, 2022 at 20.00 at the Warsaw Philharmonic. On the occasion of the Year of Polish Romanticism, the programme of the concert accompanying the event will be based on works from that period. Leszek Możdżer, among others, will present jazz interpretations of romantic music.

The statuettes will be presented in four categories: Honorary Award, Discovery of the Year, Personality of the Year and Event of the Year.

During the gala we will hear the band Vołosi, as well as the duo of Monika Wałach-Kaczmarzyk and Karolina Kupczyk-Deyl, the laureate of this year's edition of the Oskar Kolberg award ‘For merits to folk culture’.

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The 10^th Jubilee International Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ‘Choros’, dedicated to the outstanding visionary, mystic and one of the greatest artists of the 20^th century, is the largest and oldest event promoting his work, consolidating his place in Polish and international culture. This year's festival’s theme, which will take place at the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice between the 12^th of November and the 6^th of December, 2022, is: ‘Concerts - premieres – multimedia’.

Performers are, among others: Dmytro Choni (piano), Negar Bouban (oud), Piotr Pławner (violin, conductor), Joanna Freszel (soprano), Mariusz Godlewski (baritone), Maciej Tworek (conductor), Yaroslav Shemet (conductor) and all ensembles of the Silesian Philharmonic.

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On the 13th of November, the Warsaw Philharmonic hosted a gala of awarding the Corypheus of Polish Music 2022, organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance and TVP Kultura. This year, all individual awards went to exceptional women associated with Polish music: Agata Szymczewska, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń and Jadwiga Mackiewicz - winner of the Honorary Award. The 18^th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition was recognized as the Event of the Year.

The Corypheus of Polish Music Award has been awarded since 2011 in four categories. The winners in the Personality of the Year, Event of the Year and Honorary Award categories were selected by the Electoral College in a secret ballot. The award in the Discovery of the Year category was chosen by the audience.

 

From the 9^th of November, 2022, applications can be submitted for the next edition of one of the most important music projects of the National Institute of Music and Dance - the 3^rd International Competition of Polish Music. The deadline for applications for pianists and chamber ensembles is the 15^th of February, 2023. The prize pool of this year’s edition is EUR 100,000.

The International Competition of Polish Music promotes Polish music of the 19^th and 20^th century. The third edition of the event will take place from 2 to 9 July 2023 at the Artur Malawski Philharmonic in Rzeszów. 

The aim of the competition is to promote talented musicians who decide to include in their repertoire lesser-known works by Polish composers, especially works less frequently present in the repertoire of Polish and foreign artists. 

Six main prizes will be awarded in each category. In 2023, the prize of 1,000 euros will be awarded to a performance of a work by one of the following composers: in the Pianists category - Antoni Stolpe, Eugeniusz Pankiewicz (125^th  eath anniversary), Raul Koczalski (75^th death anniversary), and in the chamber ensembles category - also by Antoni Stolpe, Witold Maliszewski (150^th birthday anniversary) and Antoni Szałowski (50^th  death anniversary). 

PROGRAMME CHANGE

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November 12, 2022 at 7.00 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw, the concert of Sinfonia Iuventus will be conducted by Tomasz Bugaj. Violinists Roman Lasocki and Szymon Krzeszowiec will perform the solo parts. Free tickets are available for the concert! 

We will hear the seventh Violin Concerto by Grażyna Bacewicz, the Partita, one of the most important works by Witold Lutosławski and the symphonic triptych Eternal Songs by Mieczysław Karłowicz. 

To receive a free admission, please send your application by the 9^th of November 9 to the e-mail address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. along with the number of places.