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The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra based in Katowice announces that Marin Alsop will be the new Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of NOSPR in the 2023/2024 season. Key to Alsop's tenure will be close cooperation with the institution's General and Programme Director, Ewa Bogusz-Moore, in shaping the orchestra's repertoire and further strengthening its national and international reputation.

In the upcoming season, Alsop will conduct a number of symphonic concerts, the final events of the 2^nd Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition and the opera Black Mask by Krzysztof Penderecki, which will be recorded by the artists.

Alsop remains the Principal Conductor of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (RSO Wien).

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl 

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The Technopera project is a multimedia event combining techno culture and opera, carried out in the post-industrial space of the former Gdańsk Shipyard. The premiere of this unique spectacle created with the help of artificial intelligence will take place on the 17^th of June, 2023 at 19.00 at the WL4 Mleczny Piotr Gallery in Gdańsk.

Technopera is based on a libretto by Podletz (Artur Kozdrowski) and Peter Style (Piotr Wyrzykowski). It consists of audiovisual samples from popular science and science fiction films arranged in the form of a dialogue between the characters of the opera. The libretto played live by a VJ provides a choreographic and dramatic reference point for actors and musicians.

Artists who co-created the group C.U.K.T. are involved in the implementation of Technopera. The director and author of the visual layer is Piotr Wyrzykowski, the character of the Man will be played by Mikołaj Robert Jurkowski. Other artists taking part in the project are the artists from the Tri-City, also well known to the Polish and international audience. The creator of electronic music Michał Jacaszek will prepare the electronic layer of the opera, and NeoQuartet with its electric instruments will be his partner in creating the entire audio sphere of the event. The cast of Technopera is completed by soprano and performer Aleksandra Klimczak. The other characters of the opera Alien, Machine and Cyborg will be generated with the help of artificial intelligence.

Additional information: https://neoarte.pl/technopera/ 

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The 2022/2023 artistic season of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will end with a concert on the 10^th of June at 19.00 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio. It will be a unique concert of 20^th and 21^st century music inspired by the works of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The conductor and soloist will be Stefan Plewniak, a versatile artist known as baroque and contemporary violinist, conductor and music producer.

Ottorino Respighi's Trittico botticelliano is an evocation of three famous paintings by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli from the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Maurice Ravel, writing the piano cycle of six miniatures Le Tombeau de Couperin, referred to the concept of the Baroque suite. In Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed, Max Richter reached for the well-known programme cycle of four concertos by the Italian Baroque master and showed it in a completely new light, using well-known motifs (according to Richter, his version contains about 1/4 of Vivaldi's original material) processed and embedded in new contexts. Zuzanna Całka, who plays the synthesizer, will also perform as a soloist in this piece.

Ticket information: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/respighi-ravel-richter-zakonczenie-sezonu-artystycznego-2022-2023/ 

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The Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk announces a composition competition ‘A work for carillon and two trumpets’. The competition is open to students of composition classes at Polish music academies. The deadline for submitting scores is the 11^th of June, 2023 (23:59).

Subject of the competition is composing a piece for carillon and two trumpets. Duration of the composition: 4 to 6 minutes. Each composer may submit any number of works. Competition works should be submitted anonymously.

The competition will be settled by the end of June 2023. The winning composition will be premiered during the Gdańsk Carillon Festival 2023. In addition, Head of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk funded the main prize of PLN 1,500 gross for the winners of the competition.

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://www.amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/konkurs-kompozytorski-utwor-na-carillon-i-dwie-trabki,1365 

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On the 10^th of June, 2023 at 11.00 at the Sto Pociech Foundation at Freta 20/24A street in Warsaw the final of this year's improvisation workshops for children ‘Tell me a fairy tale’ will take place. During the classes you will be able to learn more about contemporary music and improvisation.

Classes are dedicated to children aged 3-8 and their parents. They last about 90 minutes with a short break. The workshops will be conducted by jazz vocalist and music therapist Iza Kowalewska, multi-instrumentalist Bartosz Smorągiewicz and composer and pianist Jarosław Siwiński.

Participation in the workshops is free of charge - the number of places is limited, therefore prior registration of participants is required.

Applications are accepted in two ways:

• via online form: https://forms.gle/pVGojdEbqYDoLExV9 
• by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Details: www.ptmw.art.pl