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Event date: 2024-05-24

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic and the Polish Music Publishing House invite students of first- and second-cycle studies in Musicology, Composition and Music Theory to participate in a review competition. Its subject is to create a review dedicated to Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa's birthday gala. The deadline for submitting applications is the 24^th of May, 2024.

The aim of the competition is:

• promotion and support of students' activities in the field of music criticism, with particular emphasis on works devoted to the performance of works by Polish composers working in the 20^th and 21^st century;
• developing the interest of students of Musicology, Composition and Music Theory in music criticism, in particular in the field of performing Polish music of the 20^th and 21^st

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/konkurs-recenzencki/ 

Event date: 2024-05-24

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 5^th edition of the International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music, with participation of outstanding artists from Poland and abroad, will take place in the Sanok district on 24-27 May 2024. The Festival will also discover new talents through the 4^th National Competition for Young Organists. Admission to the concerts is free.

This year's edition of the Festival will be inaugurated in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Sanok with a concert by Anna Maria Jopek, who will be accompanied by: Piotr Wojtasik (trumpet), Igor Pietraszewski (shakuhachi) and Piotr Rojek (organ). On the 25^th of May at the Sanok Franciscan Church, we will hear organist Elżbieta Karolak together with soprano Katarzyna Hołysz.

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

Event date: 2024-05-23

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

During the 53^rd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Poznań Music Spring", which will be held at the Poznań Academy of Music on 23-26 May 2024, diverse and stylistically colourful contemporary music will be presented. The festival programme, organized by the Poznań Branch of the Polish Composers' Union and the Music Encounters Foundation, includes 13 world premieres. Admission to all concerts is free!

The festival will be inaugurated by a performance by the Bałaban Family Quartet with guest pianist Krzysztof Sowiński: the artists will premiere works by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Artur Kroschel, Monika Kędziora and Sławomir Czarnecki.

The concert on the 24^th of May, co-organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum, will feature Sophia Goidinger-Koch (violin) and Barbara Riccabona (cello). The "Spring of the Young" concert on the same day will be an opportunity to hear, for the first time, works by students of the composition faculty of the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań: Krystian Klej, Grzegorz Uran and Lidia Wysocka; in addition, we will see the multimedia project 'Soundpainting' performed by students of the class 'New improvisation projects - theory and creative projects', which was created under the supervision of composer Michał Janocha.

Festival website: https://2024.wiosnamuzyczna.pl/ 

Event date: 2024-05-21

Media patronage: Polish Music information Centre POLMIC

The world premiere of Maria Trzpis' Mass for choir, percussion and string orchestra will take place on the 21^st of May, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. in the Church of St. Saint Barbara in Gdańsk (Długie Ogrody 19).

About 80 musicians will be involved in the performance conducted by Michał Kozorys: 'Pro Musica Nova Chamber Orchestra', solo singing students from the class of Prof. Anna Fabrello and Prof. Robert Kaczorowski, percussion students of Prof. Katarzyna Myćka and Dr. Paweł Nowicki and the choirs of the Faculty of Choral Conducting, Church Music, Artistic Education, Rhythmics and Jazz: Mixed Choir and Women's Choir "Gaudium per Canto".

Additional information: https://www.amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/swiatowe-prawykonanie-mszy-na-chor-mieszany-perkusje-i-orkiestre-smyczkowa-marii-trzpis,2073