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The 5th anniversary Christmas Festival "Art Mintaka" will be held on December 8-10, 2023 at the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum. in Bydgoszcz. The latest works by recognized Polish composers will be performed by great instrumentalists. All first-performed pieces were commissioned by the Art Mintaka Polish Chamber Music Foundation specifically for the festival. Free entrance!

For the first time, we will hear Imbody by Nikolet Burzyńska for flute, guitar, cello and tuba, The Oddity of Calabi-Yau by Rafał Gorzycki for flute, guitar, cello and tuba, Quatre chant's sur ce qui n'est plus là by Marcin Stańczyk for four melodic instruments, Revolutions by Aleksander Nowak for flute and tuba.

Detailed programme: www.artmintaka.com 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, the Chair of the Music Theory and History of Silesian Music Culture is organizing from 5 to 6 December 2023 the 7th International Conference "Musical Analysis. Historia-theoria-praxis". The conference will be accompanied by two concerts. The programme of the first will include songs by Witold Maliszewski, while the second will feature works for percussion by contemporary Wrocław-based composers.

The initiative to create an international forum for the exchange of ideas and views on various types of discourse about music was born at the Academy of Music in Wrocław in 2008. Subsequent conferences were held in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2021, and were attended by scholars from Europe and both Americas. This year's edition will host researchers from Austria, France, Spain, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the United Kingdom.

The aim of the conference is to present the analysis of a musical work from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The range of issues addressed at this year's meeting is broad. Different research approaches will be presented, including semiotic, hermeneutic, axiological and intertextual ones; the authors will use different concepts and methods of analysing and interpreting a musical work in the search for sense and meaning in music.

Attention will be given to the wide application of analysis, including in the study of the relationship between music and the word, in the exploration of issues of genre, style and compositional technique, as well as those of expression and narrative in music.

The question of performance and reception of music will also be raised.

Project co-funded by the state budget, granted by the Minister of Education and Science under the “Excellent Science II” programme (Polska).

Anna Granat-Janki

Conference programme: https://amuz.wroc.pl/vii-miedzynarodowa-konferencja-analiza-dziela-muzycznego-historia-theoria-praxis-9583/?date=2023-12-05 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the 8^th Józef Świder International Music Festival, on December 6-10, 2023, there will be: 17 competition presentations by choirs from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia and Malta; meeting with Krzesimir Dębski and Rafał Rozmus; National Scientific and Artistic Conference "Performance challenges of contemporary choral music", University Conducting Forum, concert "Serial of sounds, i.e. sounds from serials" performed by the special guest of the Silesian Chamber Choir Festival Ad libitum and festival concerts in Cieszyn, Cracow, Ustroń, Zebrzydowice, Gorzyce and Łaziska Górne.

Admission to all festival events is free.

Detailed programme: https://us.edu.pl/instytut/ismuz/2023/11/23/viii-miedzynarodowy-festiwal-muzyki-im-profesora-jozefa-swidra/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish Society for Contemporary Music invites children aged 6-12 from Warsaw kindergartens and schools to "Dominobajki" concerts with music by Jaroslaw Siwiński on the 7^th of December at 10:00 and 12:00 at the Saska Kępa PROM of Culture in Brukselska 23 street. The concerts are free, but prior registration is required.

Children and artists will arrange fairy tales like musical dominoes and have great fun while doing so.

Registration form: https://forms.gle/6UZBmMxsUiAFPeeFA   

Details: www.facebook.com/ptmw1923 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Hashtag Ensemble's first year of repertoire activities on its own stage at the Hashtag Lab Social Cultural Institution will culminate in a concert titled "Genre Roulette" on the 7^th of December, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. It is also the conclusion of Matthew Shlomowitz's composer residency with the Hashtag Ensemble, so the ensemble will premiere a new arrangement of his composition Glücklich, Glücklich, Freude, Freude that evening, together with soloist Mark Knoop, a recognized British pianist. The concert is part of cooperation with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Since its inception, Hashtag Lab has been an open stage, offering artistic interpretations of various genres at the highest level, presenting programmes without repertoire compromises - "Genre Roulette."

Ticket information: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/genre-roulette/