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National Forum of Music in Wrocław invites to a concert promoting Michał Ziółkowski’s album The Light of a Winter Night on the 22^nd of January 2022.

The programme will also include carols and Christmas songs arranged by the composer. The works will be presented by as many as three ensembles of the National Forum of Music: the NFM Boys' Choir, the NFM Choir and the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra as well as the ‘Con Brio’ Choir of the Grażyna Bacewicz Primary Music School in Wrocław.

Michał Ziółkowski studied composition at the Academy of Music in Wrocław with Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil. He won prizes at national and international competitions while his works are being regularly performed in Poland and abroad. He currently lectures at his alma mater.

The concert will feature arrangements of carols and Christmas songs as well as Christmas suite Light of a Winter Night for boys’ and mixed choirs and chamber orchestra.

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Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The first 2022 concert of the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet will take place on the 14^th of January at 7 p.m. Works of such composers as Giuseppe Verdi, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Georges Enesco and Wojciech Kilar will be presented to the audience.

The ouverture to Verdi’s opera Nabucco will open the concert. We are also going to hear different kinds of waltzes, from Tchaikovsky’s V Symphony and Mephisto Waltz of Liszt, II movement of the Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms, Slavonic Dance op. 72 No. 2 by Dvořák as well as Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 of Georges Enesco.

Orchestra will also perform Wojciech Kilar’s Polonaise from the movie Pan Tadeusz.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/koncert-karnawalowy-shemet-orkiestra-symfoniczna/

Theme of this year’s 10^th edition of the National Undergraduate and Graduate Student Academic Conference ‘Neofonia’ will be ‘Music. Movement. Image.’ The event will take place 19-20 January 2022 at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. Concerts and workshop of body percussion will accompany the conference.

The conference consists of three panels, all being held in the Presidential Hall of the Academy: ‘Image, Visuality’, ‘Intermediality’ and ‘Theater, Dance, Scene Setting’.

During the conference on the 19^th of January at 10 a.m. Dr Bartłomiej Miler invites to a body percussion workshop in the Blue Hall. Enrolment via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. till 16^th of January. Number of places is limited.

On the same day at Aula Nova at 6 p.m. works of Polish Music Academies’ undergraduate and graduate students such as Kamil Polak, Andrej Yakushawa, Miłosz Kędra, Artur Szczepkowski, Grzegorz Uran, Wiktoria Różycka, Magdalena Białecka, Justyna Tobera, Mikołaj Jarczyński, Tymoteusz Lasik, Seweryn Otto, Joanna Czarny and Dawid Dąbrowski will be performed.

The second concert will take place on the 20^th of January at 6 p.m. in the Blue Hall. Elaborated by movement, graphic music pieces of young composers: Barbara Zach, Mikołaj Jarczyński, Bartosz Wolak, Joanna Wilczyńska, Joanna Czarny, Justyna Tobery, Tomasz Ciotucha, Miłosz Kędra i Wiktor Zawistowski will be presented to the audience.

To sign up for both concerts emails to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. should be sent by the 16^th of January 2022.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Additional information: https://www.facebook.com/kanamp2012 

Piotr Pławner - one of the most outstanding and creative Polish violinists will perform together with Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra as a violinist and a conductor on the 28^th of January 2022 at 7 p.m. in Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw. Music of Johannes Brahms and Philip Glass will be performed.

The last of Brahms’ four symphonies was premiered less than two years before his death – like many of his late works, it too is pervaded by melancholic mood, especially present in the intensely moving first movement. Despite its traditional architectonics, the entire symphony contains several innovative and original formal elements. It is counted among major items in the canon of late-Romantic symphonic music and is regarded as Brahms’s most significant achievement in orchestral music.

Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 2 of 2009, entitled American Four Seasons, intentionally refers to the similar famous cycle by Antonio Vivaldi. Here, however, there are four separate movements dedicated to the seasons (preceded by a prologue and divided by “song” interludes), rather than separate concertos.

Pławner a winner of the International Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznań in 1991 (ex aequo with Bartłomiej Nizioł) and laureate of many other prestigious competitions and awards has with an impressive concert and recording output. “He is one of the greatest talents of our time. He is a genius who can arouse even the most austere audience with his demonicity, bravura and virtuosity!” – the great Yehudi Menuhin spoke of him with delight.

Piotr Maculewicz

Financed by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/

On the 4th of February 2022 at 7 p.m. the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra lead by Hobart Earl will perform works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Stefan Kisielewski and Konstantin Boyarsky who himself will perform the solo viola part.

Stefan Kisielewski’s „Mała uwertura” (‘Small ouverture’) for symphonic orchestra will open the concert. Next piece, Konstantin Boyarsky’s Concerto for Viola will be performed by the composer himself, one of the leaders of the viola section of the Royal Opera House in London.

The fourth movements emotional Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich will fill out the second half of the concert. Hobart Earl will conduct the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Polish Music Edition will be the patron of the concert as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting performance of Polish music.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/szostakowicz-v-symfonia-boyarsky-earle-orkiestra-symfoniczna/ 

The Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Néstor Bayona will perform on the 11^th of  February 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

The soloist will be internationally acclaimed and awarded French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performing pieces by Andrzej Panufnik, Serge Prokofiev and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Łucja Siedlik

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/nospr-nestor-bayona-jean-efflam-bavouzet 

Programme of the 4th February concert at 7 p.m. in Opole Philharmonic will be diverse and colourful. World renowned Wiener Glasharmonika Duo together with soprano Joanna Moskowicz, Opole Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Adam Banaszak will perform this evening.

The programme of the concert focuses on Polish music: works of Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko and Krzysztof Penderecki arranged for glass instruments: harmonica and verrophone will be performed at the concert.

Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger for thirty years have been playing the glass. They perform works written for glass instruments as well as contemporary music and arrangements of popular works.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Programme details: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/rozspiewac-szklo/ 

Valentine’s Day in Silesian Philharmonic means beautiful love songs arranged by Marcin Wyrostek and Silesian Chamber Orchestra.

Works by Astor Piazzolla, Consuelo Velázquez, Władysław Szpilman, and Marek Grechuta will be performed on the 14^th of February at two concerts (at 6 and 8.30 p.m.) in the Silesian Philharmonic Hall.

The concert will be a part of ‘PGE – HoloGramy’ cycle presented for the third time and involving a hologram ‘performing’ on the stage next to the live artists. It’s all possible thanks to a special technical equipment and a fogscreen which Silesian Philharmonic has at its disposal as the only institution in Europe.

The combination of a live act and VR technology might be an interesting experience.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/walentynki-z-marcinem-wyrostkiem-pge-hologramy/ 

Program of the chamber music concert on the 17^th of February 2022 at 7p.m. performed by Christian Danowicz and Robert Morawski consists of various works by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravela, Karol Szymanowski and Józef Elsner.

Elsner was considered one of the greatest Polish artists of the first half of the 19^th century. He enjoyed great authority not only as a composer, but also as a teacher and concert promoter as well as the founder and rector of the Warsaw conservatoire

The energetic Sonata in D major for violin and piano op. 10 no. 2 consists of three movements: Allegro, Scherzando. Allegretto and Rondo. Allegro moderato.

The Sonata in G minor is Debussy’s last major work. It was created in 1917 however, the French composer did not manage to finish it. Debussy took part in the premiere of this piece as a pianist. It was his last public appearance.

The Violin Sonata in D minor is Szymanowski’s early work, still late Romantic and devoid of the striking originality of his later compositions. However, the composer’s melodic gift, combined with the ability to build a poignant and engaging narrative for the listener, made this sonata a work of great interest to the audience.

Tzigane rhapsody, which will end the concert is a pastiche and a parody of effective (and often even showy) violin pieces written at the end of the 19th century as a result of interest in Gypsy music.

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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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