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A special presentation of Wojtek Blecharz' Rechnitz. Opera directed by Katarzyna Kalwat and based on a drama by Elfriede Jelinek, a Nobel prize winning Austrian writer, will take place on 9 May 2020 at 8:00 p.m. on TR Warszawa Facebook and Vimeo pages. A meeting with the creators will take place after the performance, around 10:30 p.m.

The presentation of the Rechnitz. Opera – The Exterminating Angel, which premiere took place on 25 September 2018 at the 61st "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, is a part of the action "Stay at home, do not leave the theater!".

The scenario of the opera presents the tragic events which took place in March 1945 in the castle of Baroness Margrit Batthyány in Austria, Rechnitz. According to the testimonies of witnesses, during the reception, issued by the Baroness Margit von Batthyány, her guests - local SS and Gestapo officers - took part in the massacre of two hundred Jewish forced laborers brought there from Hungary. The mass grave of the slaughtered labourers has never been found and the sluggish progress in the investigation made it possible for the executioners to escape. In Jelinek's play, the events at the castle in Rechnitz are described by Messengers whose relations contradict each other. The play, will not be a reconstruction of the events from 70 years ago from Rechnitz. RECHNITZ. OPERA - The Exterminating Angel is an attempt at understanding the mechanisms of collective memory. Its main theme is the language as an instrument of manipulation, lies and violence. It’s also an account of the contemporary European history, European identity, a part of which is the experience of war and Holocaust.

English and Polish closed captions available only on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user52046418 

The Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk and Radio Gdańsk S.A. invite you on 9 May 2020 at 8.00 p.m. to a concert of the series "aMuz on Radio Gdańsk", which is also a prelude to the Gdańsk Music Festival. Soprano Sonia Warzyńska-Dettlaff will present works by Polish composers.

"AMuz on Radio Gdańsk" is a series of concerts initiated in October 2019, featuring students, graduates and teachers of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. A total of 9 concerts are planned for the academic year 2019/2020. All concerts are conducted by Konrad Mielnik and broadcast live on Radio Gdańsk.

The next concert will take place at the Janusz Hajdun Gdańsk Radio Concert Studio. It is the Award of the Rector of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk Prof. Maciej Sobczak, PhD Habil., and the President of the Board of Radio Gdańsk Adam Chmielecki to Sonia Warzyńska-Dettlaff, who won the first prize in the 1st Stanisław Moniuszko Polish Vocal Competition for students and graduates of second-degree music schools and art colleges.

The programme will include songs by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko, Ignacy Marcel Komorowski, Mieczysław Karłowicz and Stanisław Niewiadomski. Sonia Warzyńska-Dettlaff will perform with piano accompaniment by Grażyna Troć.

Radio Gdańsk online: https://radiogdansk.pl/sluchaj-rg-kanaly 

The Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art and the Music is For Everyone Foundation invite you to a series of interactive multisensory activities for families with children aged 3-6 years "Smykowizje Online". The next workshop (in Polish) entitled "Abstraction squared" will be held at Smykowizje Online Facebook page on 9 May 2020 at 11.00 a.m.

What is abstraction? Can all images and shapes be named? Can a triangle be a ship, and a circle be a crocodile eye? During the next "Smykowizji online" meeting we will visit the Bik Van der Pol duo exhibition "Way too many stories to fit in such a small box" at the Ujazdowski Castle. We will listen to strange stories told by the exhibition and the amazing Square. And finally, together we will create an abstract work of art.

Parents with children can listen to the stories accompanied by music composed by Agnieszka Widlarz and use the materials and tools introduced by the organizers to draw their children's attention to the basic shapes close to their perception: a line, square, rectangle or circle. The EDU U-Jazdowski team together with the Music is for Everyone Foundation prepared many sensory surprises and creative tales, which can be told together.

More information at: Facebook Event Page

Henryk Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22 performed by Bomsori Kim and Wojciech Kilar's Krzesany will be featued in the programme of the next internet concert of the Poznań Philhamonic on Friday, 8 May 2020, at 7 p.m.

Both works were performed by the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Marek Pijarowski. The concert was held in the Konzerthaus Berlin on the 23rd of October 2018 and it was broadcast by national German radio program Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Out of two violin concertos by Wieniawski (probably his best works) Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22 is performed more frequently and regarded as more mature and more original. Krzesany by Wojciech Kilar, written in 1974, was a real breakthrough in his work, as his prior compositions were more avant-garde, mostly sonoristic. The word “krzesany” means a group of dance steps characteristic for highlander dances that includes striking one’s heels while jumping. Kilar was greatly inspired by the whole range of elements deriving from highlander folk music, thus after Krzesany he composed other pieces influenced by this region: Kościelec 1909, Grey Mist, and Orawa.

The concert will be broadcast at: www.filharmoniapoznanska.pl

The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in collaboration with Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music, The Department of Composition of Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk and De eM Studio invite you on 7 May 2020 at 7 .pm. to a concert of the series "New Music in the Old Town Hall" entitled In a Sonic Network.

In this difficult and hard time, the organisers are trying to promote contemporary music by continuing the series of concerts "New Music in the Old Town Hall" online. The upcoming concert will feature excellent artists, including Edward Sielicki, Bożena Boba-Dyga, Lorenzo Brusci, Krzysztof Gawlas, Henrik von Coler, Mehmet Can Özer and Dariusz Mazurowski, in a programme composed almost entirely of world premieres.

We will listen to Krzysztof Gawlas' Abstract Objects 5 (2020) for modular synthesizer and computer sound projection, Henrik von Coler's Die polnischen Reisen (2020) for live electronics and field recordings, Edward Sielicki's Three Mazurkas "In tempore pestis" (2020) for electronic sounds, Mehmet Can Özer's Isolation Music no. 2 (2020) for computer, Bożena Boba-Dyga's BoBaSoLo (2020) for voice, small percussive instruments and electronics,  Lorenzo Brusci's ACHOUSMATI / An acousmatic exploration of a multi-habit-set-up during the lockdown, April 2020 (2020) for live electronics, fixed media, given habitat, improvised behavioral exploration, binaural microphones and environmental speakers. In addition, Dariusz Mazurowski's Trojan Planets (2014 / new version, 2020) for live electronics and computer will be peerformed for the first time in a new version.

Please watch and listen on the Baltic Sea Cultural Center YouTube channel: bit.ly/YTNMwSR.
After the premiere, the whole concert will be available for those, who want to watch it again or cannot join the event on Thursday.

More information at: https://www.nck.org.pl/en/ and on the Facebook Event Page.