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From the 29^th of April to the 2^nd of May 2022, the French-Polish Olivier Messiaen Festival was held in Toul, Lorraine, on the 30th anniversary of the composer's death. The initiator and organizer of this event is the musicologist Jerzy Stankiewicz. By preparing the event in Toul, in the place of the composer's imprisonment in the first prisoner of war camp (before transport to Görlitz), Stankiewicz wished to highlight its history, only fragmentarily mentioned in the composer's biography. During this undertaking, the mayor of the city, Alde Harman, decorated Jerzy Stankiewicz with the Gold Medal for services to the City of Toul. Moreover, Jerzy Stankiewicz was invited to the Honorary Committee of the Bach Organ Festival, which has been existing in Toul for over twenty years.

Report on the project and its realization 'Colloque O. Messiaen, Toul 1940'.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Concert on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the City of Mińsk Mazowiecki will take place on the 29^th of May 2022 at 6 pm on the premises of Zespół Szkół nr 1 im. Kazimierza Wielkiego in Mińsk Mazowiecki.

The city of Mińsk Mazowiecki invites you to the open-air event of the year, the oratorio and symphonic concert with the participation of the world famous mezzosoprano Małgorzata Walewska. The concert is the final event of the 600th anniversary of granting municipal rights to the city of Mińsk Mazowiecki.

The programme of the concert includes three works by Grzegorz Duchnowski, commissioned by the Museum of the Mińsk Land and will be performed by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Anna Duczmal-Mróz and Choirs of the Warsaw University of Technology and Tibi Domine.

The soloists will be Małgorzata Walewska, Anna Mikołajczyk (sopranos), Aneta Łukaszewicz (mezzosoprano), Tomasz Raff and Patryk Rymanowski (basses).

The project is co-financed by the Self-government of the Mazovian Voivodeship.

Admission to the event is free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

On the 28th of May 2022 at 7.00 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Anna Sułkowska-Migoń will perform the Overture ‘Morskie Oko’ by Zygmunt Noskowski, Violin Concerto in A major by Mieczysław Karłowicz, three symphonic poems from the cycle Má vlast by Bedřich Smetana and Melody in A minor by Myrosław Skoryk.

The performer of the violin Concerto in A major by Karłowicz will be Małgorzata Wasiucionek, a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of prof. Roman Lasocki. She also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the class of prof. Pierre Amoyal. Winner of many international competitions, in 2017 she received a doctorate in musical arts, and a year later became an assistant professor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music.

Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, who conducts the concert, works with the Orchestra as part of the ‘Conductor-Resident’ programme.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

On the 28^th of May 2022 at 6 p.m. Camerata Silesia will perform at the premises of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra at a concert dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Chłopecki (1950–2012) on the 10th anniversary of his death.

Andrzej Chłopecki was one of the most prominent Polish music critics. His volatile mind and writing style (often very sharp!) are a model for successive generations of reviewers.

Works by Krzysztof Penderecki, Stanisław Krupowicz, Paweł Mykietyn and Aleksander Nowak will be performed at the concert which will end with Paweł Szymański's Phylakterion.

   After a note of Agnieszka Nowok-Zych

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/camerata-silesia-chlopecki-in-memoriam 

Media Patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The concert series ‘Panufnik, Twardowski, Górecki - masterpieces of Polish chamber music of the 20th century’ performed by Apeiron Trio will take place in Duszniki Zdrój, Kraków, Poznań and Berlin between the 28^th of May and 13^th of June 2022.

The aim of the project is to present the masterpieces of Polish chamber music of the 20th century, works for piano trio in particular. During the events in Poland and abroad the music of Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik, Romuald Twardowski and Mikołaj Piotr Górecki will be presented. The concerts will take place at Chopin's Manor in Duszniki Zdrój (28 May), in Białoprądnicki Manor in Kraków (30 May), in the auditorium of the Tadeusz Szeligowski in Poznań (June 9) and at the Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin.