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Ad Libitum is a festival focusing attention on the art of improvisation. The theme of the 17^th Festival, which will take place in Warsaw on October 20-23, 2022, is ‘Sonic and visual’ - connecting the world of sound with what is visual.

The 2022 edition will show the interpenetration of the arts of two dominant senses - sight and hearing. Traditional improvised concerts with the participation of Polish composers will be combined with audiovisual projects. A multimedia installation, neo-avant-garde experiments with video - these are some of the elements of this edition that explore the relationship between music and film art, video and light.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 19^th of October, 2022 at 19.00 at the I. J. Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, the premiere of the Symphony of Time for a soloist and electronic media, composed by Marcin Gumiela, teacher at the State Music School Complex, will take place.

The soloist of the evening will be cellist Tomasz Strahl and the conductor Henryk Wierzchoń.

The task was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the Composers’ Commissions programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

NOSPR invites students of 7^th and 8^th grade of primary schools and secondary school students to educational symphonic concerts of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, which will take place on the 19^th of October at 11.00 and 13.00 and will be conducted by Alexander Humala. Admission to the event is free.

‘Szymanowski - portrait 140/85’ is a concert organized in connection with the: the 140^th birthday and 85^th anniversary of death of Karol Szymanowski. The programme will guide the audience through various stages of the work of this one of the most significant composers in the history of Polish music.

Winners of the 1^st Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition: violinists Sławomir Wilga and Roksana Kwaśnikowska will perform at the concerts.

On the 18^th October, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. at the ICE Kraków a premiere of Folk Variations - a piece of Jan Stokłosa commissioned by Sinfonietta Cracovia as part of the ‘Composers’ Commissions’ programme carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The project is the result of collaboration between Sinfonietta Cracovia and the EtnoKraków / Crossroads festival. Folk variations will be heard in the S2 ICE Kraków theater hall as the epilogue of the festival. This is one of the most intresting points of Cracow’s cultural autumn, combining various elements: contemporary sounds, folk inspirations and classical string orchestration.

Co-creator of the enthusiastically received Songs of Contemporary (a joint project of the song and dance ensemble ‘Śląsk’ and Miuosha awarded with Fryderyk), this time will reach for melodies from various regions, weaving them into a concert in which popular performers will play on ethnic instruments: Sebastian Karpiel-Bułecka (bagpipes, singing), Bożena Bujnicka (soprano), Helena Matuszewska (including a female from Biłgoraj).

La Scala Tutti - another composition by Hanna Kulenty in the style of musique surrealistique - will be performed for the first time on the 18^th of October, 2022 at 19.00 by the Primuz Chamber Orchestra conducted by Łukasz Błaszczyk at the Łódź Philharmonic.

The work features solo instruments competing with the orchestra part, evoking the form of concerto grosso. The composer created two solo parts, performed by bass trombone and trumpet and inspired by the melody from the piece La Scala Solo, composed by Hanna Kulenty in 2020 for trumpet. The soloists will be Adrian Gryciak (trombone) and the composer's son, Piotr Majoor (trumpet).

Concert is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund - a special-purpose fund, as part of the ‘Composers’ Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Grażyna Bacewicz's Symphony for String Orchestra and Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 by Edward Elgar will also be performed.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia.lodz.pl/pl/wydarzenia/koncert-kameralny-28