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Opole | Chamber Opole Philharmonic #2: As-SAI Trio

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Chamber music will sound as part of the ‘Chamber Opole Philharmonic’ cycle on the 18^th of November, 2022 at 19.00. As-SAI Trio will present works by Józef Elsner and Antonín Dvořák.

All members of the ensemble began their music co-operation in the Music School in Bytom. They are laureates of many music competitions in Poland and abroad, where the recent successes include the title of the champion of the International Chamber Music Competition in three Stages in Bydgoszcz.

Warsaw | 4th International Music Festival of Central and Eastern Europe ‘Eufonie’

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The 4^th International Music Festival of Central and Eastern Europe ‘Eufonie’ will take place between the 18^th and the 26^th of November, 2022. There are 9 days of music feast ahead of us, during which we will taste both well-known and unknown, but worth knowing, compositions. Tickets are on sale now!

The festival refers to the tradition of the regional community of Central and Eastern European countries. This area is an interesting cauldron that allows you to discover its complexity through the variety of works and artists presented. The chairman of the Programme Council is dr Mieczysław Kominek, president of the Polish Composers' Union.

In this year's edition entitled ‘From Austria-Hungary to the Present’, we will experience both baroque splendor and classic clarity, the monumentalism of great casts, but also the intimacy of recitals. 13 concerts will take place in Warsaw, including 3 premieres of works commissioned by the National Center for Culture and a special event: an exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery.

Cracow | 30th Audio Art Festival

The 30^th Audio Art Festival will take place between 18–27 November 2022 at the Academy of Music in Cracow, Cricoteka and the Hevre club.

The Audio Art Festival in Cracow has been held continuously since 1993. The programme of the jubilee edition is special. The premiere concerts, installations and performances concern the review of the most important sound art and contemporary music projects from around the world.

Polish premieres occupy an important place in the programme. They define a new paradigm of contemporary art. They contain elements related to the artist's identity, his particular mission in forming local culture. They create new forms of art, refined and engaged in the contemporary challenges posed by migration and the threats associated with war.

Katowice | NOSPR Chamber Music Series: Świder, Haydn, Fauré & Mahler

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On the 17th of November, 2022 at 7.30 p.m. as part of the 'NOSPR Chamber Music' series, works for a wind quintet by composers of various eras will be performed, including Lyrical Miniatures by Józef Świder.

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/nospr-kameralnie-31

Warsaw | 7th Music Festival ‘TRZY-CZTE-RY. Contexts. Contrasts. Confrontations’

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The programme of the 7^th Music Festival ‘TRZY-CZTE-RY. Contexts. Contrasts. Confrontations’, which will take place in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw on November 17 - December 10, encompasses music from Poland and works of those foreign composers whose birth anniversary falls in 2022.

Premieres of Eufonium by Aleksander Lasoń and False Emotions by Ryszard Alzin among other Polish and international works of contemporary music will be presented at the Festival.

This year's festival will include 8 concerts with the participation of soloists, chamber musicians and AUKSO - Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy. The ‘Trampoline of the Young’ also returns to the program as an accompanying event, during which the most promising artists of the young generation will present themselves.

Gdańsk | 2nd Open Performance, Composition and Arrangment for Carillon Masterclass

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The Second Open Masterclass on Performing, Composing and Arranging for Carillon will be held on the 17-19.11.2022 in Gdańsk (Poland) by Eddy Mariën from Royal Carillon School Jef Denyn Mechelen (Belgium), Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz (PhD, Assoc. Prof.) from the University of Zielona Góra, Monika Kaźmierczak (PhD) and Kamil Cieślik (MA) from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

The masterclass will be held in the tower of St. Catharine Church in Gdańsk (ul. Profesorska 3), the tower of the Main Town Hall in Gdańsk (ul. Długa 46), and at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, room 413 (the yellow building) and room 414 (the red building).

The programme of the course encompasses: the presentation of the carillons of the St. Catherine Church and the Main Town Hall, carillon for advanced performers (class with Eddy Mariën) and for beginners (class with Monika Kaźmierczak), individual work of the participants with appointments for a consultation. In the theoretical part of the course for composers Eddy Mariën, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz and Kamil Cieślik will reveal the arcana of composing and arranging for carillon.

Due to restrictions on the number of people, application is required by the 11^th of November, 2022 to the e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Katowice | 75th birthday of Konstanty Andrzej Kulka

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On the 14^th of November, 2022 NOSPR and the Philharmonic Foundation invite you at 20.00 to a concert on the occasion of the 75^th birthday of Konstanty Andrzej Kulka. The violinist together with the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Jan Lewtak will present works by Henryk Wieniawski, Karol Lipiński and Polish film music. Danuta Kojro-Pawulska (harpsichord, piano), Magdalena Schabowska (soprano), Piotr Lis (oboe), Maria Lewicka (flute) and Grzegorz Wołczański (clarinet) will also perform at the concert.

In the first part of the concert, we will hear beautiful and majestic compositions for violin and chamber orchestra: Concert Polonaise in D major and Legend by Henryk Wieniawski, virtuoso works by Karol Lipiński - the favorite works of Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, an outstanding Polish violinist.

Poznań | Poznań composers and their guests 2022

On the 14^th and 16^th of November, 2022 at the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań (Stefan Stuligrosz Square 1) at 7 p.m. exceptional concerts will take place during the series ‘Poznań Composers and Their Guests’, organized by the Poznań branch of the Polish Composers' Union.

On the 14^th of November organists Agnieszka Tarnawska and Łukasz Kołakowski will present works by Jehan Alain, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, Olivier Messiaen, Barbara Kaszuba and Thierry Escaich. The audience will also witness the premiere of Sylwia Nowastowska's Momentum virium.

On the 16^th of November, Tomasz Sośniak will perform a piano recital "Kazimierz Serocki in memoriam". Apart from Serocki's works, compositions by other Polish composers such as Lidia Zielińska, Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Artur Kroschel, Monika Kędziora and Jan Astriab will be performed.

The series is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as a part of the ‘Music’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Premiere of radio plays for children ‘Scale and Passengers'

Polish Radio RDC ‘Radio dla Ciebie’ together with the Polish Music Edition produced series of 12 stories for children ‘Scale and Passengers' in the form of radio plays. The premiere broadcast on RDC starts on the 14^th of November, 2022 whereas regular broadcast of the plays will take place twice a week: on Mondays and Fridays at 16.20. On Saturdays and Sundays at 9.30 reruns will be played. Each radio play will be preceded by an interesting conversation with the authors of the books and directors. We invite you to the world of 'Scale and Passengers'!

The heroes of books and radio dramas are famous Polish musicians who hide in the sounds of the piano keys: Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Agata Zubel, Elżbieta Sikora.

Press release

More: https://pwm.com.pl/pl/aktualnosci/szczegoly/3460231,premiera-wyjatkowo-muzycznych-sluchowisk-dla-dzieci-gama-i-pasazerowie.html

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Opole | Chamber Opole Philharmonic #2: As-SAI Trio

Warsaw | 4th International Music Festival of Central and Eastern Europe ‘Eufonie’

Cracow | 30th Audio Art Festival

Katowice | NOSPR Chamber Music Series: Świder, Haydn, Fauré & Mahler

Warsaw | 7th Music Festival ‘TRZY-CZTE-RY. Contexts. Contrasts. Confrontations’

Gdańsk | 2nd Open Performance, Composition and Arrangment for Carillon Masterclass

Katowice | 75th birthday of Konstanty Andrzej Kulka

Poznań | Poznań composers and their guests 2022

Premiere of radio plays for children ‘Scale and Passengers'

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