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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/ 

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!

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.

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 

The final concert of the 64^th Young Composers' Competition, organized by the Polish Composers' Union, will take place on the 16^th of April, 2023 at 12.00 in the concert hall of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow. The event, during which the verdict of the jury will be announced, will take place as part of the 7^th International Festival of Piano Duets ‘Duettissimo!’. Free entrance! 

The programme will include four pieces for a piano duet, selected by the Jury: Bartłomiej Kominek (chairman), Maciej Negrey, Dariusz Przybylski, Bartłomiej Wąsik and Wojciech Widłak. The concert will be performed by two piano duos: Novi Piano Duo (Anna Wielgus-Nowak and Grzegorz Nowak) and Sanami Piano Duo (Justyna Piękoś-Kędzierska and Piotr Kędzierski). 

Compositions such as Iluzja (emblem XC189045), Waves (emblem AZYx11UQ), Qualia (emblem Stochos20) and ConfRotation (emblem CERES) will be presented. 

Since 2020, the Award has been financed by the PZU Foundation. The distinctions are financed by the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union. 

More about the competition: https://www.zkp.org.pl/