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The next this year's improvisation workshop for children ‘Tell me a fairy tale’ will be organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music between the 3^rd and the 5^th of November, 2022 in Jeziorany: at the Sports and Recreation Center and the M. Lengowski Primary School. The main idea of ​​the project is to popularize the music of our time and improvisation among the youngest. Admission free! The number of places is limited.

During the workshop, children learn the basics of improvisation and a variety of instruments, and play with beautifully illustrated books, thus entering the world of contemporary music. This time, the participants of the classes will learn, among other things, about a rare instrument - monokton.

As always, the workshop will be conducted by great artists from the world of contemporary music: double bass player Małgorzata Kołcz and two composers - Jarosław Kordaczuk and Jarosław Siwiński.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Performance of the Vilnius String Quartet will take place on the 3^rd of November, 2022 at 7.00 p.m. in the National Forum of Music in Wrocław. The programme includes works by Lithuanian and Polish composers. The names of Stanisław Moniuszko and Karol Szymanowski are well known to Polish listeners, while many of them will have the opportunity to hear the music of Jurgis Karnavičius for the first time.

Karnavičius belonged to the same generation as Karol Szymanowski. The concert will feature his String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 1, written in 1913. In his home country, the composer is known primarily as the author of operas, but the chamber work that will be presented that evening is also worth attention.

The 2^nd String Quartets by Moniuszko and Szymanowski will also be presented.

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9279 

The ‘24 Generations’ concert from the series organized by the Polish Composers' Union together with the ZAiKS Authors' Association and Polish Radio Programme 2, will take place on the 29^th of October, 2022 at 7.00 p.m. at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio. Admission free!

The Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw conducted by Rafał Janiak will perform with Kamil Kruk as a soloist in his own piece. We will hear Liquid air for orchestra (2021), by Elżbieta Sikora, Hyloflex αβ for string orchestra and computer (2007-2009) by Paweł Hendrich (the composer himself will be responsible for the electronics), Tempo capriccioso by Ewa Podgórska for string orchestra and 2 clarinets (2009) and Music for Strings, 2 groups of wind instruments and 2 loudspeakers by Andrzej Dobrowolski (1967).

The premiere of Path in the Clouds IV by Yauhen Paplauski for instrumental ensemble (2014), commissioned by the ZAiKS Authors' Association, as well as Kamil Kruk's Sequenze di ologrammi for orchestra (2021).

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The Association of Young Artists of the Wejherowo Region and the Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble invite you to an event ‘Laboratory of Ballads and Romances. Art'n'Voices vs. Adam Mickiewicz ‘, which will take place on the 29^th October, 2022 at 7.00 p.m. in the Savior Church in Sopot (Evangelical-Augsburg Parish). Admission to the event is free!

‘Laboratory of Ballads and Romances’ is an interdisciplinary word-music project with elements of stage movement. On the last Saturday of October, the space of the Savior Church in Sopot will become a kind of laboratory where artists of the younger generation will experiment with Mickiewicz's work, trying to transplant the idea of ​​Polish Romanticism into 21st-century art.

This task will be undertaken by the Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble (winner of the ‘Fryderyk’ 2021) specializing in the performance of contemporary a cappella music. Poetry published 200 years ago, will be presented in a completely new version. The ensemble will perform live improvisations as well as works by young Polish composers, reflecting the atmosphere and character of Ballades and Romances.

On the 28th of October, 2022 at the “Opera Leśna” in Sopot, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, together with the Krakow Reed Trio, will perform for the first time Forgotten Songs and Dances, Op. 59 by Mikołaj Piotr Górecki for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string orchestra, harp and celesta as well as Sinfonietta per archi "Mystery" by Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk. Both works are dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic in Sopot as a part of the "Composers’ Commissions" carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Other works performed during the concert will be Mikołaj Górecki’s - Divertimento for string orchestra, Op. 32 and Larghetto by Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk.

The solo parts will be performed by wonderful young artists: violist Karol Sienkiewicz and cellist Jakub Grzelachowski and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic will be conducted by the Spanish conductor Rodrigo Tomillo.

More: http://pfksopot.pl/