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Buk | Contemporary Music Festival 'New Music in the Former Synagogue'

Patronat medialny nad Festiwalem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

On the 21^st of April, 2023, the Union of Idealists of New Music invites you to the City Hall - the former synagogue in Buk. A one-day festival of contemporary music ‘New Music in the Former Synagogue’ will be held there at 7 p.m., culminating in a concert presenting world premieres. The date of the concert in the synagogue coincides with the 80^th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Admission is free.

One of the premiere compositions is Magdalena Białecka's Piano Concerto. The third part of the Concerto is entitled Kaddish. The piece was composed with the festival's sponsors in mind: a family that leaves Buk after a hundred years of living in this city. The second of the compositions will be Suffolk: a Triptych by Magdalena Białecka to the poems of the Polish-Norwegian poet Ariel Rosé.

We will hear the experimental chamber orchestra Ensemble 622 conducted by Magdalena Cichoń, composed of students and graduates of music academies in Warsaw, Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz. Klara Kania and Jan Dzierżanowski, and the winner of international competitions - pianist Paweł Popko will be the Festival’s soloists.

Wrocław | International Classical Music Awards Gala

NFM 21.4.23 Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The International Classical Music Awards Gala will be held for the first time at the National Forum of Music on the 21^st of April, 2023 at 19.00. During the concert, the winners of this year's edition of the event will perform. There will also be a presentation of the ICMA award for special achievements, which the jury awarded to the National Forum of Music.

The award will be handed over to the initiator of the establishment of the institution, and at the same time its director, Andrzej Kosendiak.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9268

Gdańsk | 13th New Music Days

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The 13th New Music Days will take place at Żak Club in Gdańsk on April 21-23, 2023. During the festival, a wide spectrum of forms of new music will be presented, appearing both on Polish and world stages. Programme includes acoustic as well as electric and electronic instruments works, group and solo performances, as well as premiere performances.

The 13^th edition of the New Music Days will be inaugurated (April 21) by two duos: Mazen Kerbaj & Adam Gołębiewski and Lucy Railton and Kit Downes. The next day of the Festival (April 22) will belong to artists from France and Poland. The third day (April 23) will consist of solo performances. The Polish experimental scene will be represented by Mateusz Olszewski, Zaumne, who will present premiere compositions in Gdańsk. The festival will close with a performance by Ale Hop, who comes from Peru and lives in Germany.

New Music Days are funded by the City of Gdańsk and Żak Club.

Detailed programme: https://klubzak.com.pl/pl/kalendarz/Dni-Muzyki-Nowej~pr1364

Ujazd, Radziejowice, Wiaderno | 'With classics through Poland': Agata and Łukasz Długosz, Marek Toporowski

Flutists Agata and Łukasz Długosz and harpsichordist Marek Toporowski will perform as part of the project ‘With the classics through Poland’ on the 20^th of April, 2023 at 18:00 in the Municipal Cultural Center in Ujazd, on the 21^st of April at 19.00 in the House of Creative Work in Radziejowice and on the 22^nd of April at 17.00 in the Community Centre in Wiaderno.

They will perform works by Fryderyk Chopin, Karol Kurpiński, Astor Piazzolla, Jacques Offenbach, Leo Delibes, Philippe Gaubert, Jacques Ibert, Ennio Morricone, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Franciszek Doppler, Ernest Köhler, as well as Adam Wesołowski's Lullaby and Vocalise from the film The Ninth Gate of Wojciech Kilar.

Detailed information: https://nimit.pl/wydarzenia/

Bydgoszcz | Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa „Muzyka dla dzieci"

Patronat medialny nad konferencją objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

W dniach 19-20 kwietnia 2023 w Akademii Muzycznej im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Bydgoszczy odbędzie się Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa „Muzyka dla dzieci", zorganizowana przez działającą przy Wydziale Kompozycji, Teorii Muzyki i Reżyserii Dźwięku Pracownię Kultury Muzycznej i Folklorystyki.

Kompozytorzy, muzykolodzy, teoretycy muzyki, wykonawcy, pedagodzy i kulturoznawcy omawiać będą bodźce, preferencje i motywacje twórcze, problemy zogniskowane wokół warsztatu kompozytorskiego oraz wartości sztuki przeznaczonej dla dzieci, pochylając się nad jej różnorodnymi formami i funkcjami. Kierownikiem naukowym Konferencji jest dr Barbara Mielcarek-Krzyżanowska.

Przewodnicząca Sekcji Muzykologów ZKP prof. IS PAN dr hab. Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska wraz z Jemem Panufnikiem (Londyn, Twickenham) poprowadzi webinar "Andrzeja Panufnika Obrazki na Tamizie". Udział w konferencji weźmie również Izabela Zymer, reprezentująca Bibliotekę Naukową ZKP.

Warsaw | 'Memory and Future': Concert of the Polish-Israeli Symphony Youth Orchestra

The 19^th of April, 2023 marks the 80^th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On that day, at 8 p.m. a concert will take place at the Grand Theater - National Opera, which, apart from a symbolic message and paying homage to both Jewish and Polish victims of Nazi terror, emphasizes the importance of Polish-Jewish relations based on mutual respect for the common centuries-old tradition and historical truth.

It is also a meeting of young musicians from Poland and Israel, whose main idea is to break down barriers and stereotypes, create new relationships between the young generation of Poles and Jews, which is why musicians from both countries, remembering the past, will perform for the future. The Polish-Israeli Youth Symphony Orchestra ‘Memory and Future’, featuring students of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and the Polish National Youth Choir will perform together with Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, the conductor. The soloists will be Pavel Tolstoy, Aleksandra Florek, Dominika Kazimierska, Natalia Darkowska and cantor Nachman Turgeman.

Programme of the concert includes the premiere performance of Tenebrae by Elżbieta Sikora and the Symphony No. 8 ‘Polish Flowers’ by Mieczysław Weinberg.

More: https://teatrwielki.pl/

Results of the 64th Tadeusz Baird Composers' Competition announced!

On the 16^th of April, 2023, as part of the 7th International Festival of Piano Duos ‘Duettissimo!’ the final concert of the 64^th Tadeusz Baird Composers' Competition took place, during which the verdict of the jury was announced. Main Prize and a distinction were awarded. Since 2020, the Award has been financed by the PZU Foundation. The distinctions are financed by the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union.

The jury composed of: Bartłomiej Kominek (chairman), Maciej Negrey, Dariusz Przybylski, Bartłomiej Wąsik and Wojciech Widłak, after listening to the works for piano duo performed by Novi Piano Duo and Sanami Piano Duo, decided to award Tadeusz Baird Main Prize to the work Qualia (emblem Stochos20). A distinction was awarded to the work ConfRotation (CERES emblem).

After opening of the envelopes, it turned out that the authors of the awarded works were: Dawid Grenda (Stochos20) and Jakub Jung (CERES).

The ceremony of awarding diplomas to the winners will take place during the 66^th International Festival of Contemporary Music ‘Warsaw Autumn’.

Congratulations!

Warsaw | Resurrection of Music: The Forgotten Composer Konstanty Gorski. The Lost Opera "Margier" and the full reconstruction of its score by conductor Ivan Kostyakhin

The Polish Composers' Union, PWM Edition and the Konstanty Gorski Music Society on the 26th of April, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. invite you to a music and art gathering 'Resurrection of Music: The Forgotten Composer Konstanty Gorski. The Lost Opera "Margier" and the full reconstruction of its score by conductor Ivan Kostyakhin'. The event, featuring Maestro Kostyakhin, as well as the Polish Composers Union President Mieczysław Kominek, Grzegorz Seroczyński - the head of the recently established Konstanty Gorski Music Society - and artists who will present excerpts from the work, will take place at the Polish Music Edition office in the center of Warsaw (Fredry 8 street). Admission is free!

WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF "MARGIER"?

This remarkable artist, active and significant on the map of musical culture of his time, lived the life of an "eternal migrant" and, probably, for this reason he is almost completely forgotten today. Composer, violinist, and teacher Konstanty Gorski was born in 1859 in the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (in Lida, now a city in Belarus), died in 1924 in Poznań, studied in Grodno, Vilnius, Warsaw, and St. Petersburg, worked in Georgia, Ukraine, and in the reborn Second Polish Republic. His beautiful music deserves to be popularized especially since next year marks the 100th anniversary of Konstanty Gorski's death.

Katowice | Silesian Quartet: 'Mieczysław Wajnberg - all string quartets - following the dedication'

NOSPR 18.4.23 Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Silesian Quartet invites you to the NOSPR premises on the 18^th of April, 2023. At 19.30 as part of the ‘Mieczysław Wajnberg - all string quartets - following the dedication’ project the ensemble will present String Quartets No’s. 12, 14 and 7of this brilliant composer.

The recording all of Mieczysław Weinberg's string quartets has so far been undertaken by only two ensembles: the Danel Quartet and the Silesian Quartet. The interpretations of the Polish ensemble were described in the French press: ‘If the music is deep and original - and this is unquestionably the case with Wajnberg - it is difficult for the contemporaries to understand all its richness. It takes time, which is proved by the Silesians in the complete set of his works’.

Take a word for it? Better check next Tuesday! The concert will be led by Prof. Marcin Trzęsiok.

Detailed information about the project: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/kwartet-slaski-mieczyslaw-wajnberg-2