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Wydział Kompozycji, Dyrygentury i Teorii Muzyki oraz Katedra Dyrygentury Symfoniczno-Operowej Uniwersytetu Muzycznego Fryderyka Chopina zapraszają do udziału w trzeciej edycji ogólnopolskiej konferencji z cyklu „Wybitni polscy dyrygenci”, która odbędzie się 22 października 2018 roku w Nowej Sali Senatu UMFC.

Konferencja będzie poświęcona życiu oraz działalności artystycznej, pedagogicznej i popularyzatorskiej prof. Henryka Czyża. Celem konferencji jest ukazanie bogatej, wieloaspektowej działalności profesora, wieloletniego pedagoga warszawskiej uczelni. W szerokim kręgu zagadnień znajdują się przede wszystkim:

- działalność dyrygencka, w tym preferencje repertuarowe, charakterystyka interpretacji, dokonania na gruncie promowania polskiej muzyki współczesnej, współpraca z instytucjami w Polsce i na świecie, z uwzględnieniem funkcji kierowniczych, dokonania fonograficzne;

- spuścizna kompozytorska, m. in. szczególne dokonania na gruncie opery, dzieła orkiestrowe i kameralne, twórczość filmowa i rozrywkowa;

- działalność pedagogiczna na wyższych uczelniach muzycznych w Krakowie i Warszawie;

działalność popularyzatorska, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem programów telewizyjnych;

- działalność literacka.

Udział w konferencji wezmą m. in. prof. dr hab. Krystyna Juszyńska, dr hab. Maja Metelska, dr Iwona Świdnicka, dr Jarosław Praszczałek, dr Rafał Janiak. Zostaną zaprezentowane fragmenty programów telewizyjnych Nie taki diabeł straszny z archiwów TVP oraz takie utwory Henryka Czyża, jak Etiuda jazzowa na kwartet smyczkowy i Canzona di barocco w wersji na kwintet smyczkowy.

Wstęp na wydarzenie jest wolny.

Patronat medialny nad wydarzeniem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

The Master Organ Recitals are a series of concerts with the participation of outstanding virtuosos of organ music. In the next recital, on October 20, 2018 at 6.00 pm in the concert hall of the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic, we will hear an outstanding British organist Martin Stacey.

The organist studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He won all the most important awards for the interpretation of early and contemporary organ music. The artist performs in Europe, ranking among the leading organists of his generation. For eighteen years he has held the position of musical director in the monastery of St. Dominica in London. He is a composer of many organ works. Since 2006, the artist has been organizing the Annual Festival of New Organ Music (AFNOM), promoting the work of contemporary composers of organ music. Martin Stacey teaches organ at University College School in Hampstead and at Heathland School in Harrow.

During the Saturday Master Organ Recital, apart from Johann Sebastian Bach's Passacaglia in C minor, BWV582, the artist will present Dumka, Op. 31 No. 1 by Feliks Nowowiejski. The incorporation of Nowowiejski's work in the repertoire shows the importance of the Patron of the Philharmonic in the world of composers who specialised in organ music. The recital will also be a unique opportunity to get to know the very rich output of British 20th century composers. We will hear organ compositions by Harold Greenhill, Percy Whitlock, John Ireland, Kenneth Leighton, Herbert Howells, as well as New England Suite by Martin Stacey himself.

More information at: www.filharmonia.olsztyn.pl

On October 21, 2018 at 4.30 p.m., the Franciscan St. Trinity Church in Gdańsk will host the world premiere of the cantata Francesco by Zygmunt Krauze. The work commemorates the 400th anniversary of the constraction of the great Baroque organs in the church. The concert will be held within a cycle "Concerts for Gdańsk residents".

The concert within the cycle "Concerts for Gdańsk" will present new compositions by contemporary composers written especially for the great Baroque organ in the Franciscan church of St. Trinity in Gdansk. The programme will include the Francesco cantata for early musical instruments ensemble, a chamber choir and concerting organ by Zygmunt Krauze, based on the texts of Saint Francis of Assisi and Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Prayer for synthesizer and organ by Piotr Jędrzejczyk, and Brzmienia 2 for bassoon and organ by Andrzej Szadejko. The programme will be complemented by fragments of Andrzej Szadejko's Missa Brevis for 8 voices choir a cappella and the premiere of Songs of trumpets by Emil Miszek and Paweł Hulisz.

Among the performers of the concert there will be Goldberg Baroque Ensemble, Chamber Choir 441 Hz, Tubicinatores Gedanenses, Alina Ratkowska, Anna Wilczewska – conductors, Andrzej Szadejko – organ, artistic director, Piotr Jędrzejczyk – synthesizer, Leszek Wachnik – baroque bassoon.

Concert co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme, implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance, and the Local Government of the Pomeranian Voivodship.

The world's leading guitarists and for the first time as many as three orchestras: NOSPR, AUKSO and {oh!} Historical Orchestra, premiere performances of two guitar concerts that were written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of regaining independence by Poland, and inspirational fringe events for everyone – that's how the seventeenth edition of the Silesian Guitar Autumn, which will last from October 21 to October 27, 2018, looks like.

A unique week with a classical guitar will start with a concert in the NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice, featuring Marcin Dylla and Łukasz Kuropaczewski, the most outstanding Polish guitarists of our time. The inaugural concert will include Arioso e furioso by Mikołaj Górecki – a guitar concerto written in 2014 especially for the Festival. Then we will move to Mediateka in Tychy, where in the next seven days we will have the opportunity to hear music from Europe and the world performed by guitar virtuosos – Brasil Guitar Duo and European Guitar Quartet (Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany), Marko Topchii (Ukraine), Bireli Lagrene and Cyprien N'tsaï (France), Francesco Buzzurro (Italy), Dávid Adorján (Germany), Avi Avital and Chen Reiss (Israel). The uniqueness of the seventeenth Silesian Guitar Autumn is due to premiere performances of two guitar concerts by Clarice Assad and Marek Pasieczny – world-class compositions with the elements of Polish ethnic music, commissionned by the Festival.

Among the fringe events we will find a scientific-artistic session "Guitar in Poland yesterday – today – tomorrow", a meeting with the Italian luthier Gabriele Lodi, the founder of a concert guitar which is one of the prizes in the Jan Edmund Jurkowski International Guitar Competition, vocal workshops with Clarice Assad and master classes conducted by jurors of the Guitar Competition. The Festival will be also accompanied by the exhibition of photographs by Ireneusz Kaźmierczak.

Full programme available at: http://guitar.tychy.pl/pl/ 

Sonoris Foundation for Art Development and Programme 2 of Polish Radio invite you on October 21, 2018 at 6.00 p.m. to the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio for a concert on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Polish Radio Choir.

The Polish Radio Choir is one of the oldest professional vocal ensembles in Poland. It was founded by the famous conductor and composer Jerzy Gert in October 1948. In addition to concert activities, the ensemble participates in numerous archival recordings for Polish Radio as well as recordings for Polish and foreign phonographic companies. Over the past 70 years, the Polish Radio Choir has also made many premieres of the works by outstanding contemporary Polish composers, including Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Krzysztof Penderecki and Wojciech Kilar.

The two gala concerts, which are the highlight of the jubilee year of the Polish Radio Choir, will be held on October 21 in Warsaw and October 22 in the ICE Krakow Congress Center. The repertoire will feature Polish early, 19th-century and contemporary music. Particularly noteworthy are the works of Mikołaj Gomółka – the Polish Radio Choir is currently in the process of recording all 150 psalms by this composer. On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Stanisław Moniuszko's birth, Litanies of Ostra Brama will be recalled. The programme will be complemented by vocal works celebrating Krzysztof Penderecki's 85th birthday. The Polish Radio Choir will perform under the direction of Maria Piotrowska-Bogalecka. The concert will also feature harpist Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett, lutist Ziv Braha, drummer Tomasz Sobaniec, soprano Ewa Biegas, alto Ewa Gorzowska, tenor Tomasz Piluchowski, bass Łukasz Konieczny and Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra.

More information available at: https://fundacjasonoris.org