Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
Recital of Rafał Blechacz, winner of the 15th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition, will take place at the Opole Philharmonic on the 21st of May, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.
Artist will perform Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 by Fryderyk Chopin and works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and César Franck.
Detailed information and tickets: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/rafal-blechacz-recital/
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
103 entities and over 600 performers - this is the result of the elimination of the 28th Review of Songs about Łódź ‘Łódzkie Skrzydła 2023’ on the occasion of Łódź's 600th birthday.
The concert of laureates will take place on the 20th of May, 2023 at 17.00 in the Piccolo Theater (Tuwima 34 street), and the final concert - on the 5th of June in the Auditorium of the Academy of Music in Łódź at 11.00 (Żubardzka 2a street). First place winners in all categories and age groups will perform.
Winners list available on the website: https://www.tplodzi.eu/ppol2023.html
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
The 16th edition of the Gdańsk Music Festival will take place between the 19th and 26th of May 2023. Winners of international competitions, with whom the Festival has been cooperating for years, have been invited to participate in the concerts.
During the inauguration, the winner of the second prize of the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition, Meruet Karmenova, will perform as well as the Heathcliff Trio, winner of the International Johannes Brahms Competition.
The festival has also established cooperation with one of the most important piano competitions in the world - the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in the USA. In the 2023 edition, two of its laureates will perform: Anna Geniushene and Dmytro Choni.
An extraordinary evening with the participation of one of the jurors of the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Historical Instruments, Tobias Koch is also on Festival's schedule. The artist will play works by Fryderyk Chopin on a period piano, which will also serve as a musical illustration for the first silent film about Chopin, made in France in 1927.
Alim Beisembayev, the winner of the 1st prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021 will perform at the final concert of the Competition.
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Detailed programme - on the website https://www.gdanskifestiwal.pl/
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
On May 19-26, 2023, Sanok will host the 4th International Organ and Chamber Music Festival, which will be accompanied by the 3rd National Organ Competition and the International Organ and Chamber Music Courses. Admission free!
During the inaugural concert, the Sanok Festival Orchestra conducted by Adam Banaszak and organist Prof. Piotr Rojek will premiere works by Katarzyna Dziewiątkowska: Shiva 1 and Extravaganza. The latter is dedicated to Prof. Piotr Rojek. There will also be Polish music in the programme of the Art'n'Voices concert: compositions by Marek Raczyński, Michał Ziółkowski, Szymon Godziemba-Trytek, Zuzanna Falkowska and Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk, the founder of this vocal ensemble.
Detailed programme – on the website: https://www.facebook.com/proartis.sanok
On the 17th of May, 2023, Joanna Bruzdowicz-Tittel would celebrate her 80th birthday. The world-famous Polish composer died on the 3rd of November 2021 in France, where she had been living and composing for 50 years. She was a tireless ambassador of Poland around the world....
Joanna Bruzdowicz was born 80 years ago, on the 17th of May, 1943 in Warsaw. She composed her first work at the age of six. She graduated from the Warsaw State Higher School of Music. During her studies, she gave concerts in Belgium, Austria and Czechoslovakia. After receiving a Maurice Ravel scholarship from the French Government, in 1970, she began studying composition in Paris, among others with Nadia Boulanger.
In 2001, Joanna Bruzdowicz was honored with the Order of Polonia Restituta, and in 2013 she received the Gloria Artis Silver Medal for Merit to Culture.
After a note by Dobromiła Skalska
Latest albums with choral music by Fr. Wojciech Kałamarz CM Soli Deo Gloria and Cantate Domino (2023) contain previously unrecorded works.
The Soli Deo Gloria album contains 20 compositions, including 13 works performed by the American Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir. Other works were presented by the Polish Radio Choir, the Górecki Chamber Choir, the Marian Choir, the EU Choir ‘Dominanta’ and the UPJP2 Choir ‘Psalmodia’.
The album Cantate Domino consists of original compositions and choral arrangements of well-known religious works in honor of the Mother of God, St. John Paul II, St. Thérèse of Lisieux. There is also a hymn composed to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Vincentian charism. The songs were recorded by the Vocal Quartet of the Cracow Philharmonic Choir, the Polish Radio Choir, the Górecki Chamber Choir, the Marian Choir, the EU Choir ‘Dominanta’ and the UPJP2 Choir ‘Psalmodia’. The album is crowned with Prayer for the Homeland in one of Jan Rybarski's memorable performances.
Additional information: https://spiewniksiedleckiego.pl/?p=10227
Cezary Duchnowski and Beniamin Bukowski will write an Opera about Warsaw, the best city in the world. The piece will commemorate the reconstruction of Warsaw after World War II. The organizer of the project is Sinfonia Varsovia, operating in cooperation with the following partners: the Grand Theater - National Opera, the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Festival and the Museum of Warsaw. The selection of the winning works from the competition entries was made by literary and composers' juries. The opera is planned to be staged at the end of the 68th International Contemporary Music Festival ‘Warsaw Autumn’, and at the same time at the opening of the 2025/26 season at the Grand Theater - National Opera, on the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the reconstruction of Warsaw.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
The Grand Theater in Poznań invites you on the 17th of May, 2023 at 19.00 for another musical meeting as part of the ‘Opera in the Aula UAM’ series. This time, a recital by the outstanding soprano Olga Pasiecznik, dedicated to the memory of maestro Gabriel Chmura, will take place in the University Hall. Pianists Janusz Olejniczak and Krzysztof Trzaskowski will perform, and the concert will be conducted by Jerzy Kisielewski.
Among the diverse repertoire prepared by the artists for this evening, there will be compositions by Gabriel Chmura, artistic director of the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theatre in the years 2012-2020.
We will also hear selected Mazurkas by Fryderyk Chopin, songs from the cycle of 8 Jewish folk songs by Szymon Laks and works by J. Haydn, M. Ravel, C. Debussy and H. Duparc.
Ticket information: https://opera.poznan.pl/pl/gabriel-chmura-in-memoriam-recital-olgi-pasiecznik-i-janusza-olejniczaka-2
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC
On the 16th of May, 2023 at 18.00 in the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music in Katowice a graduation concert of students of the Department of Composition and Music Theory will take place. We will hear their latest works for the first time.
During the concert, three compositions by undergraduate and graduate students will be premiered. The Maxime Orchestra, organist Mariusz Kozieł and pianist Aleksandra Gawrońska-Kozieł conducted by Andrzej Mandryka, Krystian Wołczański and Miłosz Korpol will perform.
The programme includes Kinga Wójcik's Movement for string septet (class of Prof. Aleksander Lasoń and Prof. Peter Beyer), Monika Kozakiewicz's Cracow Poem for symphony orchestra and electronics (class of Prof. Aleksander Nowak) and Wojciech Laskowski's Double Concerto for organ, piano and orchestra (Prof. Aleksander Nowak's class).
Additional information: https://fb.me/e/2twULjO4Q
