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Łódź | 28th Showcase of Songs about Łódź 'Łódzkie Wings 2023' on the 600th Birthday of Łódź

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

LodzkieSkrzydla 23Society of Friends of Łódź, Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, the Piccolo Theater in Łódź and Primary School No. 175 in Łódź announce the 28th Showcase of Songs about Łódź 'Łódzkie Wings 2023' on the 600th Birthday of Łódź. The competition auditions will take place on the 27th and the 28th of April, 2023 at the Piccolo Theatre. Applications with a complete set of attachments should be sent by the 31st of March.

The aim of the Competition is to shape, develop and deepen ties with the 'Little Homeland' by popularizing songs about Łódź among children and youth. The competition is addressed to children and teenagers from Łódź and the surrounding area (Łódź Voivodeship).

Participation in the competition is open to soloists, ensembles (vocal, vocal-instrumental, vocal-movement ensembles), choirs from kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and participants of activities in out-of-school education facilities, including children and youth of national minorities.

Participants are obliged to prepare and present two songs in Polish (or the native language of the competition participant) at the competition audition. One of them has to be a piece about Łódź. The total duration of the performance may not exceed 10 minutes.

The organizers encourage you to compose new songs about Łódź, and to create new arrangements and arrangements of already existing songs about Łódź. Jubilee compositions related to the 600th anniversary of granting Łódź city rights will be welcome.

Rules and regulations of the competition at the website of the Society of Friends of Łódź www.tplodzi.eu and https://sp175lodz.pl/ 

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Cracow | From Wawel to the opera stage. Stage premiere of the 'Wanda' opera by Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa on the 1st of April in Cracow Opera

Wanda 1.4.23After almost two years, Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa's opera Wanda, based on the mystery play by Bard, returns to the concert circuit, but this time not to the Wawel courtyard, but to the stage of the Cracow Opera. The premiere of the new, extensive staging is scheduled for the 1st of April, 2023 at 18.30.

On the stage of the Cracow institution, the work will be presented in a new staging, with different sets and costumes. The choreography has also been expanded. The elements of the stage version were worked on by the team responsible for the production of the Wawel premiere, including Michał Klauza (musical director), Waldemar Zawodziński (direction, scenography, multimedia), Maria Balcerek (costumes) and Janina Niesobska (choreography). Among performers there will be almost all artists who took part in the premiere performance in 2021 - the world-famous bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny will once again play the role of Grodny.

Ticket information: https://opera.krakow.pl/spektakle/wanda 

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Cracow | Brilliant song interpretations of Tomasz Konieczny - recital promoting new CD release

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

FK 31.3.23On the 31st of March, 2023, the latest album by Tomasz Konieczny and Lech Napierała, From Secession to Distortion, will be released by Dal Segno Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The promotional concert will take place on the stage of the Cracow Philharmonic at 19.30. The artist endowed with a powerful voice, achieving spectacular successes on stages of the world's largest opera houses, will present songs by Richard Strauss, Aleksander Nowak and Henryk Czyż included on the new album.

This session album is the result of nearly a decade of cooperation between the artists, initiated by a recital with the songs of Richard Strauss, which took place at the Cracow Philharmonic in 2014. The new album includes Aleksander Nowak's series Couplets written to five poems by Bolesław Leśmian, twelve songs by Richard Strauss and Henryk Czyż's Two buffo arias to his own surreal poems, in which there is a lot of ambiguity, sometimes even macabre.

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Wrocław | Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

NFM 31.3.23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Concert of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic lead by Giancarlo Guerrero on the 31st of March, 2023 at 19.00 will be a meeting with two great symphonies written in the 20th century. The author of the Third Symphony ‘Symphonie liturgique’ is Arthur Honegger, an artist whose works far too rarely appear in concert programmes. Symphony No. 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ was written by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, one of the most famous Polish composers of the last century. The solo part in his work will be performed by Aleksandra Kurzak. The theme of both symphonies is very similar – it is a settlement with the great tragedies of the 20th century.

Honegger's Third Symphony was written in 1945–1946. The composer's goal was, on the one hand, to settle accounts with the horrors of war, and on the other, to express hope for peace.’

Górecki's ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ consists of three parts. Each of them is maintained at a slow pace, in each there is a motif of the loss of a child and the inevitable mourning of the mother associated with this event. The asceticism and simplicity of the musical language used by the artist strengthen the emotional message hidden in words.

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Warsaw | 'SEN/JAWA' exhibition

Sen 31.3.23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The ‘Filtr AW’ Photographic Circle of the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Scientific and Artistic Circle of the Faculty of Composition and Music Theory of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw invite you to the opening of the music and photographic exhibition ‘SEN/JAWA’ combined with a concert of contemporary music on the 31st of March, 2023 at 19.00 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw. The exhibition will be open until the 14th of April. Free entrance!

The aim of the exhibition is to draw attention to the unique and unlimited organ which thehuman brain is, and how little we still know about it – as dreams are one of the few thingsthat humans are still not able to fully control.The project is also a search for answers to the questions: What is a dream? What emotions accompany us during dream projections? Where to draw the line between what is real and imagined? And what happens after waking up?

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Wrocław | Happy Isles

NFM 30.3.23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

During the concert in the Chamber Hall of the National Forum of Music on the 30th of March, 2023 at 19.00 the singer Szymon Komasa will appear, who will present songs by Polish composers. In addition, the repertoire will be enriched by works by Johannes Brahms and masterpieces of French music of Claude Debussy or Erik Satie - arranged for two pianos, with Sophia Muñoz and Adam Kośmieja as performers. 

Stefan Kisielewski believed in the idea of ​​pure music, free from any senses and meanings. However, he made an exception by composing vocal lyrical miniatures to the words of Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński in the 1950s, reflecting the intimate nature of poetry and contradicting the main idea of ​​his own work. Komasa will perform two of them, belonging to the Seven Songs cycle: The Blind Sleepwalker's Prayer and The Request for Happy Isles

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Katowice | Chromatic vs diatonic harp or Warsaw Philharmonic vs NOSPR

NOSPR 30.3.23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Chamber musicians of the Warsaw Philharmonic and NOSPR will present works for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet by such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Osvaldo Golijov, André Jolivet and Aleksander Tansman on the 30th of March 2023 at 7.30 p.m. at NOSPR premises.

We will also hear the neoclassical Sonata for two violins by Aleksander Tansman - a position rarely present onstage, but worth listening to!

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/2-12 

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Poznań | 'Stabat Mater' of Szymanowski and Pergolesi

TW Poznan 29.3.23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

For the first time in Poland Daniela Cardim and Edward Clug - icons of world contemporary choreography, together with dancers of the Grand Theater in Poznań, will present their visions of Stabat Mater by Karol Szymanowski and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi on the 29th and 30th of March, 2023 at 19.00.

In the choreographic interpretations we will find a rich spectrum of emotions - from suffering and mourning, to the affirmation of life, from the breath-holding sense of loss, to the acceptance of what fate brings. The two parts of the performance create a story about a woman-mother. The synergy of sound and movement, the multidimensionality of the message, the perfect interpretation of the dancers of the Ballet of the Grand Theater in Poznań - Stabat Mater by Daniela Cardim and Edward Clug is a performance for today's times.

Press release

More: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/stabat-mater-wieczor-baletowy-cardimclug 

Zielona Góra | Easter Chamber Festival's 3rd edition!

WielkanocnyFestiwalKam 23Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Polish Chamber Musicians' Association invites you to the 3rd Easter Chamber Music Festival, which this time will take place at the Palace in Stary Kisielin - Zielona Góra Cultural Center on March 26 - April 4, 2023. The programme of each concert will include Polish music - romantic and the latest. Admission to the events is free.

During this year's edition, performances of artists associated with Zielona Góra are planned, as well as concerts of recognized Polish instrumentalists, including Jakub Jakowicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Marcin Zdunik, Grzegorz Mani. The piano duo Krzysztof Książek and Agnieszka Zahaczewska-Książek, winners of the International Competition of Polish Music, organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance, will perform works by M. Moszkowski, J. Zarębski and S. Rachmaninov. During the concert on the 26th of March, we will hear Marcin Zdunik's latest Piano Quartet, which was composed as part of the ‘Composers' Commissions’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

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