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The BISMA Bacewicz International Summer Music Academy is an international piano master course, the third edition of which will start on 10 August 2021 at the Academy of Music in Łódź. The classes will be conducted by eminent teachers from the most prestigious music academies: Dang Thai Son, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Ilya Maximov and Hubert Rutkowski. Concerts of participants open to the public are planned every day between 10 and 15 August at 7.30 p.m.

Organised by Stretto Music Foundation and the Academy of Music in Łódź, the courses will take place in the historic Karol Poznański Palace, the headquarters of the Academy of Music in Łódź. 31 pianists from Poland, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Australia, Japan, Korea and Thailand will practice their skills on wide piano repertoire. Renowned pianists from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Music und Theater in Hamburg will share their experience. A large number of the participants of this year's edition are young Polish pianists preparing to participate in the International Chopin Piano Competition. Piano music lovers will have the opportunity to listen to all participants live during the evening concerts.

Six concerts will also be broadcast online on the Facebook page of the Academy of Music in Łódź. Piotr Alexewicz, laureate of the International Grażyna Bacewicz Award 2020, will perform a recital at the inauguration (10 August, 7:30 p.m.). The Final Gala (15 August, 7.30 p.m.) will feature performances of four young pianists participating in the project – the best of them will be awarded the International Grażyna Bacewicz Award 2021.

Media partner: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Official website: www.bisma.pl 

The renowned pianist Andrzej Wierciński and the famous Beethoven Academy Orchestra will perform on 7 and 8 August 2021 at 7.00 p.m. at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music Center in Lusławice as part of the "Emanacje" Festival.

Chopin recitals, which are an integral part of this year's festival, are a foretaste of the great emotions that await music lovers during the 18th Chopin Competition. On 7 August we will hear Andrzej Wierciński – winner of the 1st prize at the Saint-Priest International Piano Competition (2019) and the Polish Chopin Competition in Warsaw (2015) as well as the 3rd prize at the Hong Kong International Piano Competition (2019). The artist is a laureate of the Franciszek Wybrańczyk Artistic Scholarship, the Sinfonia Varsovia Foundation, the Krystian Zimerman Artistic Scholarship and the Yamaha Artistic Scholarship.

On 8 August the Beethoven Academy Orchestra conducted by violinist Joanna Konarzewska will present works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Benjamin Britten and Krzysztof Penderecki, with whom the orchestra was particularly associated. We will hear Penderecki's Serenade for string orchestra. The composer repeatedly praised the high artistic level of the orchestra, saying: “I am touched by the commitment of the ensemble. It is not just a performance (...) there is something more to it ... ”.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information and tickets are available at: www.emanacje.pl 

The Municipal Cultural Centre in Świnoujście invites you to concerts as part of the Markowy Festival, which will be held on 4-8 August 2021 at the Marek Grechuta Amphitheater.

This year, on the big stage of the City Amphitheater at Chopin streeet we will see, among others, Krzesimir Dębski ("Krakow concert –The greatest hits of film music") and the Big Bike Orchestra ("World music on bicycles").

Krzesimir Dębski is one of the most famous and versatile Polish artists. He is a recognized composer, jazz violinist, conductor, arranger and music producer, honoured with the most important awards in the world of music (and not only). On 5 August we will hear fragments of his most beautiful film scores as well as popular songs by outstanding authors and artists associated with Krakow. The Warsaw Impressione Orchestra conducted by Krzesimir Dębski will be accompanied by soloists and a ballet group. The next day, however, we will hear an exceptional orchestra on a unique bicycle – a group of six musicians can play a concert while riding a two-wheeler. This six-seater bicycle was constructed especially for the Municipal Cultural Centre in Bydgoszcz with the Orchestra in mind. The ensemble, presenting original arrangements of works from around the world, is a part of the project of the Municipal Cultural Centre in Bydgoszcz "Culture ProNatura" which is focused on the issues of ecology, recycling, respect for environement and humility towards nature as part of the idea of ​​sustainable development.

Detailed programme is available at: http://www.mdk.swinoujscie.pl/ 

A series of new music concerts "Experimental Tuesdays" will take place on 3-31 August 2021 as part of the 21st Franciszek Wybrańczyk "Sinfonia Varsovia to Its City" Festival.

It is a unique opportunity to see how the generation of young composers is dealing with tradition and modernity. The series is curated by Wioleta Żochowska. The list of performers includes: Contemporary Music Ensemble Synaesthesis from Vilnius (3 August), Ensemble Kompopolex (10 August), Hashtag Ensemble (17 August), Flow Unit 3 (24 August) and Sinfonia Varsovia Camerata (31 August). The musicians will take up such topics as loneliness, the interpenetration of the real and virtual world, or the body-sound relationship.

The artists will present the works of foreign and Polish composers, including Piotr Peszat, Marta Śniady, Anna Sowa, Zofia Dowgiałło, Kuba Krzewiński and Żaneta Rydzewska. In addition, we will witness the premiere of Mateusz Śmigasiewicz's latest piece for percussion.

The Festival will be accompanied by an exhibition "Sinfonia Varsovia in Scale", presenting a unique acoustic model of the largest concert hall in Poland, which is to be built at 272 Grochowska Street.

Media patronage over the "Experimental Tuesdays" series: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information: https://www.sinfoniavarsovia.org/ 

The organist Krzysztof Karcz and trombonist Tomasz Stolarczyk will inaugurate the 9th Lower Silesian Music Festival on 1 August 2021 at 7.00 p.m. in the church of Church the of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Festival will run from August, through September to October.

The leitmotif of this year's edition of the Lower Silesian Music Festival is "Searching for harmony" – the last year has shown how important art, music and word are to all of us. The 100th anniversary of Władysław Żeleński's death in 2021 also influenced the festival programme. Żeleńki's works will be performed at each of the concerts.

The upcoming events are two August concerts in the interiors of baroque churches in Polanica-Zdrój and Stary Wielisław. On 1 August, we will hear the original organ-trombone duo: Krzysztof Karcz and Tomasz Stolarczyk will present the work Holy God by Żeleński, as well as Komm, Gott Schopfer heiliger Gheist BWV 667 and Prelude and Fugue in G minor BWV 558 by Johann Sebastian Bach and Largo by Georg Friedrich Handel. On 22 August, the violinist Karol Lipiński and organist Adam Klarecki will perform at 7.00 p.m. in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows in Stary Wielisław.

The concerts in September and October will feature such virtuosos as cellist Jan Kalinowski, pianist Marek Szlezer and organist Mateusz Rzewuski.

Admission to all concerts is free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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