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Annual Awards of the Polish Composers' Union 2024 announced!

DoroczneNagrody 24On the 9th of May 2024 the Jury, consisting of: Krzysztof Baculewski (chairman), Agnieszka Draus, Monika Kędziora, Mieczysław Kominek and Jerzy Stankiewicz, awarded the 2024 Annual Awards of the Polish Composers' Union.

 

 

The award winners are:


Marcel Chyrzyński - for his outstanding work as a composer recognized in musical circles in Europe, Asia and the Americas; for his artistic and organisational direction of the Cracow International Composers' Festival; and for his many years of activity and camaraderie in the Polish Composers' Union.

Katarzyna Dadak-Kozicka - for her long-standing inspiration of the musicological and composer community to joint activities for the benefit of Polish music at home and abroad, reconstruction of the history of the Polish Composers' Union in the book Defenders of the Entrusted Good, renewal of the union's scientific journals: "Polish Yearbook of Musicology" and "Musicology Today".

Violetta Przech - for her fundamental monograph on the life and work of Zbigniew Bargielski, to which she devoted many years of her work and professional life.

Information and photo: Marta Skotnicka-Karska
ZKP Office director
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Warsaw | st Interschool Knowledge Competition "Zoom on Polish music"

Zoom na 13 5 24Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 13th of May, 2024, the 1st Interschool Knowledge Competition "Zoom on Polish music" will be held. This year, the heroine of the Competition will be Maria Szymanowska (in connection with the 235th anniversary of her birth).

Competition, organized by the Karol Kurpiński State Music School of the 1st degree No. 4. in Warsaw, is addressed to students of first-cycle music schools from all over Poland. As part of the Competition, participants will take part in a theoretical test devoted to the life and work of Maria Szymanowska and an auditory test checking their knowledge of her works.

The competition will be based on a book about Maria Szymanowska from the series Małe Monografie (PWM) and the biography of Maria Szymanowska from the Polish Music Portal (NIFC).

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://www.gov.pl/web/psm4warszawa/i-miedzyszkolny-konkurs-wiedzy-zoom-na-muzyke-polska 

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Tykocin | 1st Rywka Tiktiner Jewish Music Festival

Festiwal Tiktiner 2024Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The festival map of Poland is enriched by another event – the Rywka Tiktiner Jewish Music Festival.

The first edition of the event, organized by the Mieczysław Wajnberg Institute, the Warsaw Stage Society and the Podlasie Museum in Białystok – Tykocin Branch, will take place on May 12 - June 2, 2024 in the Tykocin synagogue - one of the most important monuments of Jewish culture in Poland. The programme includee concerts with Polish virtuosos and educational events. Admission is free!

Organizer's website: https://instytutwajnberga.org/ 

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Bydgoszcz | XII Międzynarodowy Festiwal Muzyki Współczesnej "Nowa Muzyka"

Event date: 2024-05-11

NowaMuzyka 24XII Międzynarodowy Festiwal Muzyki Współczesnej "Nowa Muzyka", organizowany przez Oddział Kujawsko-Pomorski Związku Kompozytorów Polskich, rozpocznie się 11 maja 2024 i potrwa do końca miesiąca. Program jest niezwykle bogaty i obejmuje: 8 koncertów, 57 kompozycji, 13 światowych prawykonań, występy ponad 50 muzyków z Polski i zagranicy. Koncerty odbędą się w trzech miejscach: Auli Copernicanum UKW, Sali Koncertowej AMFN na ul. Gdańskiej 20 oraz w Miejskim Centrum Kultury w Bydgoszczy. Wstęp na wszystkie koncerty jest bezpłatny!

Festiwal prezentuje najnowszą sztukę muzyczną w jej oryginalnej, a jednocześnie niekomercyjnej odsłonie. Najciekawsze, najbardziej zaskakujące pomysły kompozytorskie współczesnych twórców będzie można usłyszeć w wykonaniu znanych artystów. W tegorocznym programie znajdą się propozycje zarówno dla słuchaczy poszukujących niepokornych, awangardowych dźwięków, jak i miłośników bardziej tradycyjnych i romantycznych brzmień.

Taki będzie koncert inauguracyjny 11 maja w auli Copernicanum, w której wystąpią pianistka Dominika Glapiak-Pilasiewicz i wiolonczelista Błażej Goliński; po raz pierwszy tego wieczoru zabrzmi Rondo alla Cassubia Adama Diesnera na wiolonczelę.

Już następnego dnia usłyszymy Kwintet dęty Filharmonii Pomorskiej w Bydgoszczy, który prawykona m.in. Kwintet dęty nr II nestora bydgoskiego środowiska kompozytorskiego, Bohdana Riemera.

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Szczecin | Piotr Moss in Willa Lentz: 55th anniversary of his artistic work

Moss 11 5 24On the 11th of May, 2024 at 6:00 p.m., an anniversary concert of the world-famous Polish composer Piotr Moss will take place at Villa Lentz in Szczecin. The event will take place as part of the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Maestro's artistic work and the 75th anniversary of the Maestro's birth.

For the first time this evening, the Piano Quintet "Willa Lentza", composed on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Institution's existence, will be performed. The programme of Piotr Moss' jubilee concert also includes Dialogues for violin and piano, Duets for two violins, Polonez for cello and piano, CHAGALL String Quartet.

Performers: String Quartet Berlin and pianist Adam Tomaszewski.

Additional information: https://willa-lentza.pl/wydarzenia/267-PIOTR_MOSS_W_WILLI_LENTZA_BENEFIS_55-LECIA_PRACY_ARTYSTYCZNEJ 

Warsaw | 38. Warsaw Music Meetings

Event date: 2024-05-10

WSM 24Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers' Union invites you to the 38th Warsaw Music Meetings on May 10-19, 2024. We will hear old and new music. Famous musicians will perform, and other composers, including those from the 17th century, will make their debut at the festival. Admission to all festival events is free!

As Jarosław Siwiński, the artistic director of the Meetings, emphasizes, "We will recall the best and worst times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, academics from Lviv will bring us beautiful - despite the bad times - music, after years of break we will welcome the full symphony orchestra, and we will end the festival in the amazing space of the post-modern church in Ursynów. This time there will be fairy tales at the family concert. The fairy tales will only be audio, electronic and imaginary, and an excellent guide will guide us through them. It won't help us judge which fairy tales are for children and which are for their parents. Well, it's getting more and more difficult to differentiate".

Festival website: https://www.facebook.com/warspotmuz 

https://wsm.art.pl/ 

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Warsaw | Final of the 12th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition

Event date: 2024-05-10

KonkursLutoslawskiego 10 5 24Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Two-stage auditions of the 12th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition reactivated after the pandemic break, will end with the finals on the 10th and the 11th of May at the Warsaw Philharmonic at 7 p.m. The awards gala will also take place at the Warsaw Philharmonic on the 12th of May at 6 p.m. Admission to the finalists' and winners' concerts is ticketed.

The Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition is considered one of the most prestigious competitions for young cellists up to 30 years of age. They are assessed by an international jury composed of: Roman Jabłoński, chairman of the jury (Poland, Spain), Mindaugas Bačkus (Lithuania), Andrzej Bauer, Magdalena Bojanowicz, Tomasz Strahl, Marcin Zdunik (Poland), Henri Demarquette (France), Roel Dieltiens (Belgium), Anssi Karttunen (Finland), Yuri Laniuk (Ukraine), Jens Peter Maintz (Germany).

Tickets are available on the website and at the box office of the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Competition website: https://www.lutoslawski-cello.art.pl/ 

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17th Gdańsk Music Festival

Event date: 2024-05-10

GdanskiFestiwal 24Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 17th Gdańsk Music Festival will take place between the 10th and 18th of May, 2024 in Gdańsk and the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area. The formula of the project is open, but the programme of each subsequent edition of the Festival is given an individual character by the accompanying message. May 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the premiere of one of the most important works in the history of music – Ludvig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor.

This work will be performed on the 11th of May 11 at the St. John Center conducted by the recognized conductor Eugen Tzigane. We will also hear Beethoven's masterpieces interpreted by the winner of the 5th International Baltic Piano Competition, Borun Li, on the 13th of May  and by the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marek Pijarowski during the final concert.

World-renowned artists and leading Polish symphony orchestras were invited to participate in this year's edition of the Festival, including: Anastasia Kobekina, Daniel Ciobanu, Alexandre Tharaud, Georgijs Osokins, the Pomeranian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra "Amadeus" and, as always, the Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic.

Festival website: https://www.gdanskifestiwal.pl/pl/ 

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Wrocław | 15. Leo Festival

Event date: 2024-05-10

LeoFestiwal w NFM w 2024 rokuMedia patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 15th anniversary Leo Festival will be held at the National Forum of Music on May 10-19, 2024. Christian Danowicz, artistic director of the Festival, invites you to this event.

“Inspired by the book Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, which deals with the issues of movement and time, I would like to encourage joint reflection on these universal issues during this year's Leo Festival and look at them through the prism of music and dance.”

Detailed programme - on the website: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/festiwale/leo-festiwal 

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