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Aleksandra Świgut – a talented, versatile pianist represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association – will perform on 20 November 2020 at 7.00 p.m. at the Bronisław Huberman Częstochowa Philharmonic. The concert will be streamed online on the Philharmonic's YouTube channel.

Aleksandra Świgut studied with Piotr Paleczny at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Wojciech Świtała and Maria Szwajger-Kułakowska at Katowice Music Academy and David Dolan at the Guildhall School of Music in London. She holds a doctorate from Gdańsk Music Academy, where she studied with Waldemar Wojtal. She gained experience on fortepiano under the guidance of Katarzyna Drogosz. She also has a diploma from the harpsichord class of Małgorzata Sarbak. She has won many prizes in piano competitions, including in Ettlingen, Enschede and New Orleans and at the Polish Chopin Competition in Warsaw. She has appeared at festivals in Nohant, Paris and Duszniki-Zdrój, as well as the Beethoven Easter Festival and 'Chopin and his Europe'.

During the ucpoming concert in Częstochowa, Aleksandra Świgut, together with the Częstochowa Philharmonic quintet, will perform Fryderyk Chopin's Piano Concerto in E minor. The Philharmonic musicians will also present Mini Overture for brass quintet by Witold Lutosławski and Triptych for string quartet by Aleksander Tansman.

More information at: https://www.filharmonia.com.pl/repertuar/1573-Koncert-muzyki-polskiej-ON-LINE 

The Polish Society for Contemporary Music invites you to the concert of the laureates of the 13th Competition of 20th and 21st Century Music for Young Performers, which will be held online on 19 November 2020 at 7.00 p.m.

The copetition was open to all instrumentalists and vocalists (regardless of citizenship) as well as Polish citizens who study abroad. The competition under the honorary patronage of the Polish Composers' Union aimed at presenting music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme had to include at least one piece by a Polish composer. The jury was composed of Dariusz Przybylski, Anna Dorota Władyczka and Maciej Żółtowski. The organizers appreciated the huge work and role of teachers in preparing the competition programme. For this reason, each statury prize was divided in half between the winner and his teacher. Extra-statutory material prizes were provided by PWM Edition.

During the final concert, the winners of the competition – cellist Hanxiang Chen (Complex of Silesian International Schools), percussionist Tomasz Herisz (Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice), flautists Maciej Kasperek (Zenon Brzewski Secondary Music School in Warsaw) and Jagoda Krzemińska (Royal Academy of Music in London), saxophonists Kacper Puczko (Zenon Brzewski Secondary Music School in Warsaw), Wojciech Chałupka and Łukasz Dyczko (Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw) – will perform works by Witold Lutosławski, Mikołaj Majkusiak, Bogusław Schaeffer and Wojciech Chałupka.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Music" programme operated by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Live streaming will be available on PSCM's Facebook and on the website: www.ptmw.art.pl 

Jeff Gburek and Qba Janicki will perform together on 19 November 2020 at 8 p.m. at the SPATIF club in Warsaw as part of the 5th edition of the "SuperSam + 1 series" of master performances. The concert will be broadcast on YouTube channel.

"Super" in the title means that the programme will be based on renowned artists – masters. "Sam" (in Polish means "alone", "by himself/herself") refers to the solo performances as well as the creative loneliness. "+ 1" in the title means that each evening will be crowned with a duo performance. In most cases, the artists will meet on stage for the first time. The 2020 edition of “Supersam + 1” will present respected Polish and foreign artists whose work is original, experimental and innovative.

Jeff Gburek is a sound artist, composer, improvisor, instrument builder, field recordist. Foundationally a guitarist, he launched into percussion for a period after studying gamelan music in Bali and Java and built his own hybrid world music free noise junkyard percussion set with oscillators and shortwave radios providing live music for dance theater project Djalma Primordial Science. Evolving again towards prepared guitar and live electronics, eventually integrating self-designed piezo-electric units for tapping into object resonance, he experiments found-sonospheres, with room and field resonance. Hailing from the USA, he has had artistic residencies in Berlin, Lyon, Amsterdam (STEIM), Darmstadt and Brussels.

Qba Janicki performed – over last 15 years – hundreds of concerts with such personalities as Jerzy Mazzoll, Sławek Janicki, Roscoe Mitchell, Tomasz Sroczyński, Toshinori Kondo, Peter Brotzmann, Kris Wanders or Fred Frith. Currently he works in such formations as Malediwy with Marek Pospieszalski, Kondensator Przepływu with Bartłomiej Chmara and Martyna Chojnacka, Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet and recently established duos with composer Teoniki Rożynek and belgian producer Obsequies. Besides playing instruments, he also composes music for theatre working with Maciej Podstawny, Paweł Łysak, Artur Pałyga and Grzegorz Jaremko. In addition, as a co-creator of MÓZG FOUNDATION, he works on organizing cultural events in Bydgoszcz and Warsaw.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://supersam.mozg.pl/ 

The Świętokrzyska Philharmonic invites you on 13–20 November 2020 for the 28^th edition of the Świętokrzyskie Music Days Festival online, featuring ten different concerts presenting different musical styles. The concerts will be available on the YouTube channel of the Świętokrzyska Philharmonic.

As the director of the Festival, Jacek Rogala, emphasizes, “This year we want to pay tribute to Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, whose tenth anniversary of death falls in November. […] We will recall the excellent Three pieces in the old style for strings. In addition, you will have the opportunity to listen Clarinet Concerto of the professor's son – Mikołaj, whose premiere took place a year ago in Katowice. […] Let the pandemic, which changed our lives so much, not be an obstacle in discovering music that we do not know yet, so we invite you all the more to the festival concerts and meetings”. The inaugural concert will also feature Andrzej Dziadek's romantic Stabat Mater and selected Kurpie Songs by Karol Szymanowski. Famous Polish artists will perform as soloists: clarinettist Roman Widaszek and soprano singer Ewa Tracz.

A jazz evening will traditionally take place on Saturday: Tomasz Bielski's quartet will remind us the music of Polish composers who made themselves known in Hollywood. During the Sunday family concert the youngest music lovers with the composer Mateusz Ryczek will learn the secrets of electronic music. The main character of Monday's song evening will be the poet Halina Poświatowska, whose poems has inspired many composers of various generations to write works, including A. Hundziak, P. Łukaszewski, K. Grzeszczak, J. Bauer, D. Przybylski, T. Dixy, A. Dziadek. The Tuesday concert will be devoted to Polish Baroque music performed on lutes and organs. On Thursday, we will be able to listen an equally unusual combination of instruments and compositions for percussion and Hammond organ by E. Chang, A. Krzanowski, A. Pärt and D. Przybylski. The accordionist Bartosz Kołsut will take part in the final concert presenting the Accordion Concert by Jerzy Mądrawski from Kielce.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Music" programme operated by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Full programme available at: http://filharmonia.kielce.pl/ 

The Departments of Chamber Music and String Instruments of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk invites you to an online conference. The 2nd International Artistic and Scientific Session "From the forgotten pages of Polish chamber music" will be held on 14-15 November 2020 on the YouTube channel of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

Lectures during the session will be delivered by 14 speakers from Poland (Gdańsk, Katowice, Warsaw, Łódź, Wrocław, Kraków), Germany and the USA. Sławomir Dobrzański, PhD (Kansas State University) will discuss the chamber music of Maria Szymanowska. The unknown chamber works by Zygmunt Stojowski and Irena Regina Wieniawska will be presented by Agnieszka Marucha, PhD Habil. (Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw) and Katarzyna Markiewicz, MA (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk). Anna Mikolon, PhD Habil. (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk) will present a paper Henryk Pachulski, Juliusz Wertheim and Jerzy Gablenz – the unknown chamber music composers. Three fascinating biographies and completely unknown works.

A series of papers will be devoted to Polish contemporary music. Andrzej Kacprzak, PhD Habil. (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk) will talk about Roman Maciejewski – an original and unknown artist. Arkadiusz Kubica, PhD Habil. (Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice) will analyze Bolesław Szabelski's String Quartet No. 2. Mikołaj Pacholczyk, PhD (Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź) will discuss pieces for two pianos by Aleksander Tansman.

New facts about the work of Polish composers in the United States and Germany will be presented by Tomasz Robak, MA (Davidson College, North Carolina) and Prof. Tomasz Tomaszewski (Universität der Künste Berlin).

Full programme is available at: https://amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/ii-miedzynarodowa-sesja-artystyczno-naukowa-z-zapomnianych-kart-polskiej-kameralistyki-,390