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On Aprli 13, 2019 the guest artists at the National Forum of Music will be Jakub Jakowicz and Paweł Wakarecy, who together with the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra will perform the Double Concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string orchestra MWV O4 by Felix Mendelssohn. The programme also includes compositions by Béla Bartók (Divertimento) and Andrzej Panufnik (Arbor cosmica), played/directed by Jakub Jakowicz.

Jakub Jakowicz is a soloist and chamber player, a widely-known violin virtuoso. Paweł Wakarecy is a prize-winner of the 16th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition. He gives concerts in Poland and abroad, performs with the best Polish conductors and orchestras and plays with his wife in the Wakarecy Piano Duo. At the NFM, Wakarecy and Jakowicz will perform as soloists in the Double Concerto in D minor MWV O4 by Mendelssohn, in which the solo part is divided between two instruments: a violin and a piano. Mendelssohn wrote the concerto at just fourteen – he was only at the beginning of his composing career.

The programme also features a work by a Polish composer. The Arbor cosmica (Latin “cosmic tree”) by Andrzej Panufnik was written out of fascination with nature and attributing magical qualities to trees. The composer's approach to the structure of the work is the most interesting element – the form was carefully thought through, and the whole composition can be represented graphically in the form of a tree. A phenomenal aspect of Arbor cosmica is the skilful combination of precise form with diverse and expressive sound and melodic-rhythmic layer. Every aspect of the work, thought out so well, and attention to the smallest details makes the Arbor cosmica an outstanding composition.

More information at: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/ 

A symphonic concert on April 13, 2019 at 7.00 p.m. at the Artur Rubinstein Lodz Philharmonic will feature music of Mieczysław Karłowicz.

The Symphony Orchestra of the Łódź Philharmonic under the direction of Paweł Przytocki will perform, among others, Stanisław and Anna Oświecim symphonic poem by Mieczysław Karłowicz. The concert will also feature Gustav Mahler's songs from the Rückert-Lieder series for solo voice and orchestra in the interpretation of contralto Ewa Wolak and Prelude und Liebestod from the Richard Wagner's music drama Tristan und Isolde.

The concert is held under the patronage of the PWM Edition as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting performances of Polish music.

Full programme available at: https://filharmonia.lodz.pl/pl/wydarzenia/koncert-symfoniczny-145 

Toruń Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jerzy Salwarowski will perform works of Zygmunt Noskowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz on April 12, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the CKK Jordanki Concert Hall in Toruń.

Zygmunt Noskowski, who belonged to the late Romantic period, was strongly inspired by nature and Polish landscapes, which is exemplified by the Eye of the Sea overture. Written in 1875, it is one of the early, youthful works of Noskowski. However, it already testifies to the artistic maturity of the composer and freedom from the influence of other artists, in particular Mendelssohn and Schumann.

The Eternal Songs symphonic poem by Mieczysław Karłowicz is a personal statement of the composer's individual style. This symphonic triptych is composed of Song of Everlasting Yearning, Song of Love and Death and Song of Eternal Being. Although the work does not have an exact literary program, one can hear the inspiration that Karłowicz derived from lonely treks in the Tatra Mountains.

The programme of the concert will also include the Leonore Ouverture No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven and the Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op. 33 by Camille Saint-Saëns. The solo part will be performed by the concertmaster of the cello group of the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Karol Wroniszewski.

More information at: http://tos.art.pl/pl/wydarzenie_735_Odwieczne_piesni.html 

The Lublin Branch of the Association of Polish Musicians invites you to the next event as part of the concert series "Fonie Lublina". The concert on April 14, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. will be held at the Crown Tribunal as part of the national celebration of the Year of Stanisław Moniuszko.

The programme will include fragments of Halka and Countess, presented in the context of the most renowned arias and duets from the operas of G. Verdi, G. Bizet, G. Puccini, P. Tchaikovsky and R. Wagner. It will be a chance to hear what distinguishes Moszniuszko from many composers of his time and check what their music have in common. The sources of inspiration for Moniuszko's stage works can also be traced in solo and chamber forms. Therefore, the concert repertoire will be complemented by piano miniatures by J. Brahms and F. Chopin. The performers will be soprano Anna Barska, tenor Robert Mojsa and pianist Marta Misztal. The introduction will be given by Ewa Starownik-Kuszewska.

The project is implemented thanks to the financial support of the City of Lublin. Admission to the event is free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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The first concert of electroacoustic music organized by SMEAMuz Poznań, will take place on April 13, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the CCA Solvay in Krakow (62 Zakopiańska Street).

This event marks the beginning of academic cooperation initiated by prof. Lidia Zielińska from the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań and prof. Marek Chołoniewski from the Academy of Music and Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

Electroacoustic Composition students and pedagogues from the Academy of Music in Poznań will present in Kraków their own electroacoustic ptojects. A joint improvisation of Poznań musicians and Kraków hosts with the participation of hurdy gurdy, singing, analogue tape recorders and various electronic media is also planned. On May 18 Kraków composers will perform in Poznań.

Three years ago Poznań Academy of Music introduced a new study programme with the innovative specialty "Electroacoustic Composition" – a project unique in the scale of Europe. Candidates without formal musical education are invited to apply every year, taking classes on sound computer technologies as well as classical and contemporary professional music. Since the studies last three years, in late spring the programme will have its first graduates.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Detailed concert programme: https://www.facebook.com/events/537928763398878 

Information about the Electroacoustic Composition studies: https://amuz.edu.pl/dla-kandydata/