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On the 21^st of June 2024 at 5 p.m., we invite you to a meeting and mini-concert as part of the series "Meetings at the Composers’" at the Warsaw premises of the Polish Composers' Union (Rynek Starego Miasta 27). We will present a new polmic.pl website, a photo gallery of Andrzej Markowski celebrating the 100^th anniversary of his birth, and we will also learn about the work of the composer and double bassist Tadeusz Wielecki and the musicologist Adam Suprynowicz on a new book. There will also be no shortage of musical and sweet surprises! Free entrance!

"Meeting at the Composers’" will be led by Dr. Mieczysław Kominek - president of ZKP, director of POLMIC. The event will also be attended by: an expert in Joomla! Marcin Równicki, Izabela Zymer - project coordinator, and the editor of the polmic.pl portal, Dr. Wiktoria Antonczyk.

During the presentation of the renewed website, we will talk about the activities of the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC. The project "Polish music is the most beautiful - documentation of Polish musical culture on the www.polmic.pl website" has been implemented in 2022–2024 thanks to the support of the Minister of Education and Science as part of the "Science for Society" programme. The Patron of this event is Society of Authors ZAiKS.

Event date: 2024-06-23

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Mother of God, Saint Cecilia, the Bride from the Song of Songs - three female figures present in Christian culture, although of ancient origin, were also a source of inspiration for the most outstanding composers of the twentieth century. The NFM Choir, conducted by Lionel Sowa, will refer to them during a concert on June 23, 2024 at 4.00 p.m. Polish works - works by Andrzej Panufnik, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki, as well as Hymn to St. Cecilia by the Englishman Benjamin Britten and a masterpiece of French choral music - Le Cantique des cantiques by Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur.

"You are more beautiful than the moon, purer than the stars, brighter than the sun, Mary!" – the musicians will sing in the opening concert of the Song to the Virgin Mary by Andrzej Panufnik. This quite simple Marian song with a melody referring to folk music and Gregorian chant was written by him in exile as a result of inspiration from Polish folk piety.

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More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10274 

Event date: 2024-06-22

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The last concert of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra this season will take place on the 22^nd of June, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw. The musicians, conducted by Norbert Twórczyński, a graduate of the Academy of Music in Poznań and the Academy of Art in Szczecin, will play with Krzysztof Grzybowski, one of the most recognized Polish clarinetists of his generation.

The programme includes the colorful Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 by Antonín Dvořák for a rather unusual ensemble, which, in addition to two oboes, clarinets and bassoons, included three horns and a contrabassoon ad libitum, as well as string fondamento for cello and double bass. The work combines pathos with humor, also evoking the spirit of Czech folk dances.

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/dvorak-nielsen-karlowicz-zakonczenie-sezonu-artystycznego-2023-2024/ 

Event date: 2024-06-22

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Despite many associations resulting from the title of the premiere ballet evening "4 Pastor/ León & Lightfoot/ Bondara", the main characters of the show at the Grand Theater in Poznań on the 22^nd of June, 2024 at 7 p.m. will be the director of the Polish National Ballet, the director of the Ballet of the Grand Theater in Poznań, and Sol León and Paul Lighfoot - choreographers associated with the Nederlands Dans Theater. The Orchestra of the Grand Theater in Poznań will perform conducted by Marta Kluczyńska.

Works by world-famous artists who share an extraordinary intuition in infusing choreography with contemporary contexts will be presented. Virtuosity, emotions, variety of choreographic expression, combined with poetry and music of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, will reflect relationships with other people, the search for answers to whether we can set limits for ourselves and others and for what reasons we constantly push them.

The Moving Rooms performance, choreographed by Krzysztof Pastor, will be accompanied by Alfred Schnittke's Concerto grosso I and Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra, Op. 40 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

Details: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/leon-lightfoot-pastor-bondara-wieczor-baletowy 

Event date: 2024-06-21

Patronat medialny nad wydarzeniem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

Stowarzyszenie Polskich Muzyków Kameralistów zaprasza na koncerty w ramach "Letniej Międzypokoleniowej Akademii Muzycznej w Krośnie Odrzańskim” w dniach 21 i 29 czerwca 2024. Koncerty oraz spotkania z artystami, m.in. z legendarną Ewą Pobłocką, odbędą się w Państwowej Szkole Muzycznej im. Fryderyka Chopina w Krośnie Odrzańskim. Wstęp bezpłatny.

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