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Rzeszów | Symphonic concert as part of the "Conductor in residence" programme

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Artur Malawski Philharmonic in Rzeszów invites you on 16 October 2020 at 7:00 p.m. for a concert co-organized and co-financed by the "Conductor in residence" programme carried out by the Institute of Music and Dance. The Philharmonic Orchestra will perform works by Polish composers under the baton of Bartosz Staniszewski.

Bartosz Staniszewski (b.1995) is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Krakow, where he studied with prof. Rafał Jacek Delekta. He has participated in numerous conducting courses led by eminent conductors, including Jacek Kaspszyk and Vladimir Kiradjiev as well as the Beethoven Academy Orchestra. In 2014, he conducted the premiere of his symphony at the Krakow Philharmonic. He is the co-founder and conductor of the Krakow Orchestra "Ardente", with which he performs in Poland and abroad. He has performed in the "Polish Music Still Alive" and "Wawel at Dusk" concert series.

The Symphony Orchestra of the Subcarpathian Philharmonic under Bartosz Staniszewski's direction will begin the concert with a magnificent Overture to Karol Kurpiński's lost opera Ruins of Babylon. It is one of Kurpiński's best orchestral works, inspired by the masterpieces of Viennese classics. Then, on the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, the orchestra will present his Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. The evening will close with Chaconne – In memoriam Johannes Paul II from Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem.

More information at: http://www.filharmonia.rzeszow.pl/ 

Free Improvisation Workshops for Children "Tell me a story"

PTMWFree improvisation workshops for children "Tell me a story", organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music, will be held on 15-17 October 2020 in the Culture Centre in Krajenka, the  Eugeniusz Paukszta City and Commune Public Library in Skoki and the Culture Center in Środa Wielkopolska.

This time, the classes will be conducted by vocalist Iza Kowalewska, double bass player Małgorzata Kołcz and composer Jarosław Siwiński. The adventure with improvisation will be guided by actor and director of plays for children, Grzegorz Ociepka. During the classes, children aged 3-5 and 6-8 will learn, play and improvise in the company of their parents, great musicians and amazing books.

The main idea of ​​the project is to trigger graphic-inspired improvisations. Children will create their own stories based on picture books. The improvised fairy tales will be then "translated" into musical language under the guidance of class teachers. Improvisation is the most basic, primary and joyful form of music performance, which is why the workshops combine children's creativity and imagination with books and contemporary music. In addition to improvising and playing with books, children will learn various techniques of producing sound, which expose its color and dynamic values, and will also have a chance to play percussion instruments on their own.

Classes last about 90 minutes with a short break. Participation in the workshops is free – due to the limited number of places prior registration is required.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://www.facebook.com/ptmw1923 

15th "Ad libitum" Festival ONLINE

Ad libitum 2020

The Polish Music Council Foundation invites you to the 15th anniversary edition of the "Ad libitum" Festival on 15-17 October 2020 ONLINE.

This year's programme was prepared with the pandemic situation in mind, with its limitations, but also new opportunities for artists, improvisers and composers to cooperate. The festival supports Polish artists no matter where they find themselves during the pandemic, as well as artists from other countries who live and work in Poland. The event brings them together thanks to new technologies and the use of tools that have been proven to function so well recently.

The Festival will feature Polish musicians specializing in improvisation (Maciej Garbowski, Krzysztof Gradziuk, Łukasz Ojdana, Hashtag Ensemble, Spontaneous Chamber Music), Polish composers of various generations (Sławomir Kupczak, Anna Sowa, Andrzej Kwieciński), who will write pieces with improvised parts for the Hashtag Ensemble's musicians, as well as French double bass player Sébastien Beliah, who lives and works in Poland, and Argentine improviser and composer Max Bober. Moreover, Polish improvisers and composers, who have been abroad since the announcement of the pandemic, staying in New York (Nina Fukuoka), Berlin (Martyna Poznańska) and Aarhus (Olga Szymula), will combine their artistic activities in a joint concert / performance online.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund under the "Music" programme implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Full programme is available at: https://www.ad-libitum.pl/ 

Łomża | Klaudiusz Baran will premiere Paweł Łukaszewski's "Concerto for accordion and string orchestra"

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Paweł Łukaszewski's Concerto for accordion and string orchestra will be premiered on 15 October 2020 at 6:30 p.m. in the Regional Culture Centre in Łomża by outstanding accordionist Klaudiusz Baran.

Concerto for accordion and string orchestra is a version of Łukaszewski's Concerto for organ and string orchestra from 1996. The piece consists of three contrasting movements, of which – as the composer himself notes – the extreme ones aim at showing the virtuosity of the soloist, while the middle one is based on the cantilena melody Exsultet, which Łukaszewski heard during the Easter Triduum liturgy in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Rouen performed by Archbishop Joseph Duval.

Musicians of the Witold Lutosławski Chamber Philharmonic in Łomża will be conducted by Huba Hollókői, winner of the 1st Prize in the 2nd Giancarlo Facchinetti International Conducting Competition in Brescia. The solo part will be performed by Klaudiusz Baran – an accordionist who performs diverse repertoire, but is especially appreciated for interpretations of new music. The artist has premiered over 50 solo, chamber and orchestral works, most of which were dedicated to him or inspired by him.

Paweł Łukaszewski is one of the most awarded Polish composers, a ten-time winner of the "Fryderyk" music award. His work has gained a significant position in Europe, the USA and Canada. Łukaszewski's works are performed and premiered by renowned choirs, including from London and Cambridge.

Information on tickets at: www.filharmonia.lomza.pl 

Webinar "LinkedIn for people working in culture"

LIThe Institute of Music and Dance in cooperation with LinkedIn invites you on 14 October 2020 at 4.00 p.m. for a webinar aimed at people working in culture interested in consciously building a personal and professional brand.

LinkedIn is a social networking site that is still gaining importance in terms of acquiring contacts, presenting your achievements and learning about business. During the webinar you will learn about:

• the LinkedIn community, 
• principles of building your personal profile, 
• building a personal brand on LinkedIn,
• finding contacts and opportunities to pursue your plans and professional goals.

The webinar will be held on the Zoom platform and will be followed by a Q&A session.

Link to the webinar: https://cutt.ly/WgpyF9n 

„Sytuacja pandemii nieodwracalnie zmieniła świat muzyki” – przedstawiciele instytucji kultury zabrali głos podczas konferencji Young Arts. Muzyka & Edukacja 3.0

IMiT„Sytuacja pandemii nieodwracalnie zmieniła świat muzyki” – przedstawiciele instytucji kultury zabrali głos podczas konferencji Young Arts. Muzyka & Edukacja 3.0

7 października 2020 odbyła się konferencja dla nauczycieli gry na instrumentach smyczkowych „Young Arts. Muzyka & Edukacja 3.0”. Wydarzenie było w całości poświęcone praktycznym aspektom zdalnej edukacji muzycznej, a otworzył je panel na temat zmian obyczajowych w muzyce, które wywołała pandemia.

Dyskusję otwierającą konferencję poprowadził Maxymilian Bylicki z Instytutu Muzyki i Tańca, a udział w niej wzięli przedstawiciele najważniejszych instytucji odpowiedzialnych za kulturę i edukację artystyczną: Agnieszka Hejduk-Domańska – zastępca dyrektora Departamentu Szkolnictwa Artystycznego i Edukacji Kulturalnej Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Katarzyna Dziurdzikowska – wicedyrektor Centrum Edukacji Artystycznej. Głos środowiska szkolnych placówek muzycznych reprezentowała prof. Katarzyna Sokołowska, wicedyrektor Zespołu Państwowych Szkół Muzycznych nr 1 w Warszawie. Tematem rozmowy były zmiany obyczajowe wywołane przez pandemię w świecie muzyki oraz wyzwania i szanse, jakie daje kulturze nauczanie online. Podczas konferencji została również krótko zaprezentowana nowa platforma edukacyjna Young Arts Kids, której misją jest umożliwianie dostępu do edukacji muzycznej wszystkim, którzy chcą rozwijać swoje umiejętności pod opieką wybitnych nauczycieli, oraz możliwość kontynuowania edukacji w okresie ewentualnych ograniczeń pandemicznych. Platforma jest dostępna pod adresem www.yakids.pl.

„Sytuacja pandemii zmieniła świat muzyki. Wszyscy teraz muszą odnaleźć się w rzeczywistości, kiedy nie ma możliwości występów na żywo. O wiele trudniejsze jest obecnie realizowanie edukacji artystycznej dzieci” – powiedział na wstępie dyskusji Maxymilian Bylicki.

Read more: „Sytuacja pandemii nieodwracalnie zmieniła świat muzyki” – przedstawiciele instytucji kultury...

RSNO Composers’ Hub 2020 Open call for Polish Composers

IAMThe Adam Mickiewicz Institute invites young Polish composers to take part in the open call for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Composers' Hub 2020.

Aimed at composers in the early stages of their career, the RSNO Composers’ Hub is a fantastic opportunity to write for orchestra in a range of different contexts, develop skills and creative relationships, as well as acquiring an understanding of the business of a major arts organisation.

Now in its sixth year, up to five emerging UK-based composers and one Polish composer will be chosen to join the Composers’ Hub and spend the 2020:21 season with the RSNO. In order to reflect the current challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Composers’ Hub will function differently. The Composers’ Hub members will still have the incredible opportunity of writing a work for the RSNO, but, additionally, each composer will work closely with a few members of the RSNO to discuss ideas and techniques and to develop a short piece for those musicians. Out of these meetings, each composer will write a seven to ten-minute piece for full symphony. Online coaching sessions will commence in October 2020. An in person induction will be held in January 2021, with further digital mentorship sessions taking place between January 2021 and June 2021. The scheme will culminate in a public workshop in the RSNO Centre in Glasgow, June 2021, from which one work will be chosen to be performed in the RSNO’s 2021:22

Composers must submit a CV, a one-page letter explaining how they will benefit from the scheme and two examples of their own compositions. One-page letter and CV should be in English. Composition examples should be sent with PDFs of scores (preferably at least one for full orchestra) and sound samples. MIDI files or similar are acceptable where recordings are unavailable. Applications should be emailed to Julia Ablewska This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Only applications submitted by email will be accepted.

The application deadline for Polish composers is 23.59 on Wednesday, 14 October 2020.

Detailed information at: https://iam.pl/pl/rsno-composers-hub-open-call-for-polish-composers 

Poznań | Światłodźwięki Audiovisual Art Festival

ŚwiatłodźwiękiŚwiatłodźwięki 2020 is the fifth edition of the audiovisual art festival which aims to present the most important productions of the European and Polish artistic environment that work to fuse the visual and musical areas of art into one integral aesthetic experience. The festival will take place on 16-17 October 2020 in the newly renovated Zamek Culture Centre in Poznań.

The organizers underline that the impressions that the audience will be prone to perceive is "the synesthetic experience of experimental music and visualizations." It is vital that all the interdisciplinary art presented during the festival is created entirely live, based on new conceptions, and is founded on the presumption that both light and sound influence the other element in real time.

Światłodźwięki is concerts, a jam session and lecture-presentations, during which visual artists and musician-scientists will tell the public about the newest trends in European art and about the ever-growing connections between art, IT and architecture; new paths towards which art never ceases to push mankind will be presented. This year, the artists sharing their insights will be the Slovakian composer Marián Zavarský and the Spanish media artist, Marti Guillem Ciscar. The concerts will feature excellent performers and composers, including saxophonist and composer Michał Fetler, composer and percussionist Rafał Gorzycki, clarinetist and improviser Piotr Mełech and composer and pianist Jakub Królikowski – artistic director of the Festival, winner of the Main Prize at the Marek Stachowski Competition for Young Composers (2018).

All the events are free to attend, and do not require a reservation.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme is available at: http://www.swiatlodzwieki.pl/ 

Music Coach. Children's chamber music online and at home

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The Association of Polish Chamber Musicians – Kraków Branch, as part of the "Culture on the web" programme of the National Centre for Cultre, has implemented an innovative project "Children's chamber music online and at home" covering about 1100 minutes of recordings of Polish chamber music. Starting from 14 October 2020, the materials will be available in the new con.sol.la mobile application and on the YouTube channel of PWM Edition, which is a partner of the project.

"Children's chamber music online and at home" includes recordings of individual parts of children's instrumental duets published by PWM Edition, enabling ensemble playing at home, remote learning and social isolation. The project consists of over 375 audio and audio-video recordings of duet pieces.

Among them there are compositions by outstanding contemporary composers, such as Hanna Kulenty, Grażyna Bacewicz, Janina Garścia and Romuald Twardowski. For each work, recordings of individual parts were prepared in two different tempos to enable ensemble playing by students of various education levels, and to encourage amateur musicians. Model versions were also prepared for each piece.

The recordings at BBrecords Studio were performed by excellent musicians: Ravel Piano Duo, Anna Maria Staśkiewicz (violin), Joanna Konarzewska (violin), Julia Samojło (piano), Piotr Gach (cello), Michał Panasiuk (cello), Maria Sławek (violin) and Anna Kuk (violin).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Project website: http://spmk.com.pl/ 

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