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After two years of work for the community of young composers, we bid farewell to the departing board of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers' Union and welcome a new, elected team of leaders who will promote the work of young Polish composers in the years 2022–2024.

The new board will operate in the following lineup:

Szymon Borys - chairman

Krzysztof Tomasz Jurczak - deputy chairman

Andrei Yakushau - secretary

Natalia Kaszubska

Sylwia Nowastowska

Grzegorz Uran

Professor Alicja Gronau remains the Youth Circle counsellor.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Symphonic works by Tadeusz Baird, as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav Mahler will be performed on the 21st of October, 2022 at 19.00 at the Zielona Góra Philharmonic by the Orchestra of this institution under the direction of Paweł Przytocki.

Maestro cooperates with the majority of philharmonic orchestras in Poland, as well as with symphony and chamber orchestras abroad including Budapest Concert Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle. Since 2008 Paweł Przytocki has been associated with the Department of Conducting at the Academy of Music in Krakow, where he teaches a conducting class. In 2017, he became the artistic director of the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź.

The soprano part in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G major will be performed by Sylwia Olszyńska, prize winner of several international competitions and lecturer at the Academy of Music in Katowice.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 21^st of October, 2022 at 7.30 pm at the premises of the NOSPR LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio will present a rarely performed repertoire for a reed trio - works by Aleksander Tansman, Witold Lutosławski, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Benedykt Konowalski, Wojciech Widłak and Andrzej Krzanowski.

Oboe, clarinet, bassoon - this set of instruments is usually not mentioned among the favorite chamber ensembles. But the Polish heritage abounds in compositions intended for this composition. Its interesting, mostly 20th-century representation will sound during the LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio concert.

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International Józef Madeja Festival is an artistic project that is organized annually in October in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The organizer of the festival is Józef Madeja Association. As part of this year's 4^th edition of the Festival (October 21-30, 2022), there will be many interesting events open to the public. The master workshops will be conducted by artists such as: clarinetist Olli Leppäniemi (Finland), bassoonist Theo Plath (Germany), violinist Florin Croitoru (Romania) as well as Paweł Kroczek and Piotr Lato (Poland).

On the 22^nd of October the unique Festival Clarinet Orchestra - Józef Madeja Clarinet Ensemble, as well as clarinetists Olli Leppäniemi, Paweł Kroczek, Piotr Lato, soprano Barbara Tritt and pianist Hanna Lizinkiewicz will perform at 5 p.m. during the Inauguration Concert at the Jankowice Palace. The concert will mark the celebrations of the 130^th anniversary of the birth of Józef Madeja - composer, clarinetist and distinguished organizer of concert life in Greater Poland. On the 26^th of October at 6.00 p.m. in Aula Nova of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań a chamber music concert will take place, during which bassoonist Theo Plath, violinist Florin Croitor and pianists Andrzej Tatarski and Bartłomiej Wezner will perform. On the 30^th of October at 6.00 p.m. in Kórnik Castle, the Erlendis Quartet, a recognized guitar quartet will perform. The accompanying event will be a concert in Berlin, during which the Apeiron Trio will perform.

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The latest CD of the Cracow Singers chamber choir is a very special musical trace. The very concept of the release was created after last year's joint Polish-Hungarian concert project by Cracow Singers and under the direction of the excellent choirmaster - the head of the Hungarian Radio Choir – Zoltán Pad. The album with a symbolic title – Under the falcon’s wing / A sólyom szárnya alatt - was recorded at an equally symbolic time – exactly on the 140th anniversary of the birth of two outstanding Polish and Hungarian composers – Karol Szymanowski and Zoltán Kodály.

Apart from the series Six Kurpian Songs by Karol Szymanowski and three compositions by Zoltán Kodály, the album includes perhaps the most beautiful choral compositions by contemporary Polish and Hungarian composers – Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ferenc Liszt, Levente Gyöngyösi and Márton Levente Horváth.