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Warsaw | 6th European Festival of Music Academies

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Podkarpacka Foundation for the Development of Culture supported by the National Institute of Music and Dance and the Yamaha Music Europe branch in Poland have a plasure to invite you to the VI European Festival of Music Academies between the 2^nd and the 4^th of October, 2022 in Old Mill at the Boss Hotel (in the Żwanowiecka Street 20, Warsaw).

The highligt of the Festival will be the performance of the the Lviv Chamber Orchestra conducted by Igor Pylatyuk, Rector of the Musician Academy in Lviv. Among the soloists we will hear violinist of the young generation Nazazr Pylatyuka and a pianist lvan Shemchuk, a laureate of several prestigious piano competitions, a student of Prof. Jarosław Drzewiecki. Saxophonist Petras Vyśniauskas will also be the guest of the Festival.

Performer Konstanaty Wieliński will connect classical music with jazz. It is worth paying attention to the pianists from Denmark and the duo known already in Poland: Alina and Ivan Shemchuk and Luba and Kirył Keduk.

Works by Fryderyk Chopina, Stanisław Moniuszko and Karol Szymanowski will be performed.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Music’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Additional information: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Podkarpacka-Fundacja-Rozwoju-Kultury/324350357662564

Katowice | NOSPR: Wojciech Kilar in memoriam

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra will inaugurate new artistic season on the 1st of October, 2022 at 19:30 with a concert conducted by Antoni Wit.

The concert will be a celebration of the International Music Day and the 90th anniversary of Wojciech Kilar's birth. The concert program will also include works by Mieczysław Karłowicz and Zygmunt Noskowski.

Wojciech Kilar’s ‘Krzesany’ will be performed as well as his Piano Concerto No. 2 with Krzysztof Książek as a soloist.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/nospr-antoni-wit-krzysztof-ksiazek-pamieci-wojciecha-kilara

Katowice | New Music Orchestra: 'Around the City'

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The new season of the New Music Orchestra begins with the multimedia concert 'Around the City' on October 2, 2022 at 18.00 conducted by its director Szymon Bywalec in the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice.

The program includes: Rituals - Men & Machines by David Hudry for 11 instruments, electronics and video, graphic compositions by Ewa Synowiec, Music of illusions by Adam Porębski for chamber orchestra and electronics and Tired with all these for restful death I cry by Artur Zagajewski (video: Grzegorz Mart).

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/orkiestra-muzyki-nowej-joanna-freszel-wokol-miasta

Opole | Inauguration of the 71st artistic season of J. Elsner Opole Philharmonic

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 30^th of September 30, 2022 at 19:00 a concert inaugurating the 71^st artistic season of the Józef ElsnerOpole Philharmonic will take place. The Opole Philharmonic and the famous violinist Bartłomiej Nizioł conducted by Przemysław Neumann will perform works by the patron of the institution, as well as Feliks Janiewicz and Johannes Brahms.

The overture to the Król Łokietek opera, or the Wiśliczanka by Józef Elsner, depicts the struggle of King Łokietek with Czech troops and the life of the inhabitants of Wiślica flowing to the rhythm of national dances. Then we will hear Feliks Janiewicz's Violin Concerto No. 5, whose 260^th birthday will take place in 2022. Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms will close the concert

The concert is co-organized by the National Institute of Music and Dance as part of its own programme ‘Conductor-resident’, financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/inauguracja-71-sezonu-artystycznego/

Premiere of the film 'Chopin. I'm not afraid of the dark'

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Premiere of the Polish-Korean documentary Chopin. I am not afraid of the dark, directed by Joanna Kaczmarek, weaving the stories of three pianists who share a passion for Fryderyk Chopin's music and historical experiences characteristic of their countries of origin, will take place on the 14^th of October, 2022. Won Jae-Yeon, Fares Marek Basmadji and pianist and composer Leszek Możdżer will take us on a touching and mystical journey to finally face the dark challenge.

The picture won the Czech TV award at the Golden Prague International Television Festival.

Will Chopin's compositions and Możdżer's work be able to stop time even for a moment and inspire reflection? ...

On the 14^th of October, the film Chopin. I'm not afraid of the dark, will have its premiere in cinemas all over Poland!

The film was co-financed by the RAPA organization (Korea Radio Promotion Association). The Polish producer is Inbornmedia Sp. z o.o. and Play Button Media, and in Korean - CH E&M Korea. In addition, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the National Center for Culture participate in the production. The film received the support of the Polish Film Institute. The film is co-financed by the Polish National Foundation.

Additional information:

www.inbornmedia.com

https://www.facebook.com/chopinthemovie

Trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZUTChAX44kw

6th Rzeszów Music Autumn not only in Rzeszów

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Association of Polish Chamber Musicians invites you to the 6^th Rzeszów Music Autumn, which will last from 7 to 30 October 2022. The 6^th edition of the festival will include 7 various concerts in Rzeszów, as well as 3 concerts in the region.

The project has become not only an important event in the region, enabling the invitation to concerts in Rzeszów of famous musicians from all over the country, as well as the consistent and thoughtful weaving of unknown Polish music in the programmes of events. The next edition will continue this idea.

Performers, among others wil be: LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio, Kwintofonia, Ewa Leszczyńska (soprano) and Paweł Popko (piano), Duo Accosphere, Extra Sounds Ensemble chamber orchestra.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion fund as part of the ‘Music’ programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The inaugurating concert on the 8^th of October, 2022 was co-financed from the budget of the Rzeszów Commune.

The accompanying concerts and the extraordinary concert were co-financed from the budget of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship.

Admission free to all events!

Detailed programme on the website: https://spmk.com.pl/projekt/vi-rzeszowska-jesien-muzyczna/

Katowice | 'Mieczysław Wajnberg - all string quartets - following a dedications'

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

October 8, 2022 at 6.00 pm, a concert from the series 'Mieczysław Wajnberg - all string quartets - following the dedication' (17 quartets, 6 concerts, 1 performer) performed by the Silesian Quartet will take place at the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice.

Contributing significantly to the rediscovery of Mieczysław Weinberg's music, the Silesian Quartet set itself an extremely demanding task: recording all 17 quartets of this forgotten Polish-Jewish-Soviet composer.

The upcoming concert will feature composer's early stage works - reflecting the complex character marked by the turmoil of war and recalling quartets No. I, II and III, important to the young Weinberg.

After a note of Łucja Siedlik

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/kwartet-slaski-wajnberg

Cracow | Music, Memory and European Citizenship

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Voix Étouffées Forum and the Art Association ‘Porta Musicae’ invite you to the event ‘Music, Memory and European Citizenship’. On the 9^th of October, 2022, in Aula Florianka in Cracow, a workshop lecture will be held by the French conductor Amaury du Closel and a concert at 16.30 performed by artists from Poland and Austria.

The organization Forum Voix Étouffées, thanks to the support received from the EU programme CERV (Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values), created in 2022 a network of 21 partner organizations from 12 Member States of the European Union (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands , Austria, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the Czech Republic), which work together to organize nine unique artistic events in Europe.

During the concert in Cracow, Jan Kalinowski (cello), Marek Szlezer (piano) and the quartet of soloists of the 1^st Austrian Women's Chamber Orchestra will present works by Aleksander Tansman, Szymon Laks and Ruth Schönthal, Erich Zeisl and Maurice Ravel.

Admission to the event is free!

Additional information on the website: https://www.portamusicae.art.pl/

Szczecin | Schaeffer electronically - composing of time

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

During the concert ‘Schaeffer electronically’ on the 5^th of October 2022 at 19:00 at the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin, we will hear selected excerpts from the Introduction to Composition and other texts by Bogusław Schaeffer in an actor's interpretation.

Music inspired by Schaeffer's thought and pieces will be performed by Bernard Maseli, Marcin Wyrostek, Andy Ninvalle, Piotr Zaufal, Daniel Popiałkiewicz, Mateusz Adamczyk, Krzysztof Nowakowski, and the announcers will be played by Monika Cieciora and Piotr Kramer, actors of the National Theater.

It will be an evening with Schaeffer's artistic output that fall outside all classification and a meeting with virtuosos who will try to prove that the boundaries between music, theater, dance and painting do not really exist.

Honorary patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the Interventions programme of the National Center for Culture, Edition 2022.

Producer: Aurea Porta Friends of Arts Foundation

Informacje o biletach: https://filharmonia.szczecin.pl/wydarzenia/1835-Schaeffer_elektronicznie_I_Maseli_I_Wyrostek

Stawisko | 2nd Festival ‘Stawisko - a place of symbiosis of arts and cultures': toward Ukraine

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 2^nd Festival ‘Stawisko - a place of symbiosis of arts and cultures’, which will take place at the Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Museum in Stawisko between the 9^th and the 23^rd of October, 2022, is a series of events presenting the traditions of the House of Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz as a place of symbiosis of arts, an area open to various cultures. The 2022 festival will focus on connecting Stawisko with Ukrainian culture. The co-organizer of the festival is the Polish Composers' Union.

The obvious impulse for taking up such a topic is Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz himself, a writer from the borderlands, whose work is deeply rooted in the culture of this part of Europe. The ties between his writing and Ukrainian culture are among the strongest and most diverse. The festival is also an attempt to turn to Ukraine, which has recently experienced - despite tragic events - a great spiritual revival, by presenting the trends and styles most characteristic of Ukrainian music and literature.

The achievements of Ukrainian composers will be juxtaposed with the music of Polish composers - both well-known and those less recognized. During the Festival, there will be an opportunity to remind you that Karol Szymanowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and also much less frequently mentioned in the history of Polish music - Konstanty and Konstanty Kazimierz Regamey, among others, were born in Ukraine.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the 'Music' programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Detailed programme: http://stawisko.pl/

After a note of Alicja Matracka-Kościelny

Gdańsk | 11th NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts Festival

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts Festival exists to inspire, support creativity, positively influence people and improve their quality of life through participation in cultural events. 9th edition of the Festival will take place between the 26th and the 30th of October 2022

It works as a platform connecting artists from various cultural backgrounds and realms of art. Our festival is an intriguing event enhancing personal experience of music and art, stimulating new areas of human mind and enriching our perspective on the surrounding world.

The audience of the 11th Edition of our Festival will have an opportunity to experience 5 days of music with 9 concerts, 2 art installations and one art performance. Composition students will have a chance to attend composing workshops held by festival’s Composer in Residence Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee, lecture/presentation of Chinese traditional instruments held by Chih-Sheng Chen and also to participate in reading sessions run by NeoQuartet. Children and youth will be invited to take part in activities that introduce fascinating world of contemporary art.

Festival’s host, NeoQuartet ensemble, will perform on several occasions presenting among other pieces an iconic string quartet “Grido” by Helmut Lachenmann, continuation of Multichannel Post Quartet project for electric instruments and Balazs Kecskes D.’s Oratorio performed together with Helsinki Chamber Choir. The audience will have an opportunity to listen to several dozen compositions written by composers form around the world including 7 world premieres. Finale of NeoArte Synthesizer of Arts Festival and its closing concert held in Centrum Św. Jana will host the star of modern classical genre, German musician and composer of electronic music – Sven Helbig.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state fund, implemented as part of the ‘Music’ programme by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Programme available on the website: https://neoarte.pl/

Katowice | Ballads and romances

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 8^th of October at 17.00 in the chamber hall of the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic, a concert as part of the project ‘Romanticism 2022’ will take place. It will be an afternoon full of music by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko and Ignacy Jan Paderewski as well as poetry by Adam Mickiewicz.

In Katowice, we will meet the pianist Gabriel Bortnowski, baritone Jakub Borgiel and Adam Żaak, who will play a double role of the concert host and actor.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state fund Event as part of the ‘Elderly’s Weekend with Culture" initiative.

Additional information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/ballady-i-romanse-bortnowski-borgiel-zaak/

Bydgoszcz | Zbigniew Chwedczuk - Concert and exhibition

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 21^st of October, 2022 at the I. J. Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic, as part of the celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the birth of the renowned Polish conductor Zbigniew Chwedczuk and the 50^th anniversary of the end of his mission as artistic director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic, an exhibition devoted to him will be opened (at 6.00 p.m.) and a gala symphonic concert (at 7.00 p.m.) will take place.

The aim of the project is to preserve and digitize the private archive of Zbigniew Chwedczuk - a prominent figure on the Polish musical scene, especially in the artistic circles of Bydgoszcz and the Pomeranian region, a conductor, composer and long-lasting artistic director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz (1958-1972) and the Baltic Opera, a recipient of the Gold Cross of Merit and the Order of Polonia Restituta, for whom the overriding goal was to promote Polish music through performances and recordings. In 2021 he would be celebrating his 100^th birthday and in 2022 the 50^th anniversary as the artistic director of the Philharmonic.

Additional information: https://filharmonia.bydgoszcz.pl/

11th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors is one of the most important Polish performance competitions, since 1982 belonging to the World Federation of International Music Competitions based in Geneva. It is intended for artists under the age of 39.

The submitted applications will be assessed by the Qualifying Committee consisting of distinguished conductors and musicians, who will qualify no more than 50 Competition Participants (hereinafter referred to as Participants) from the submitted applications and will select no more than 10 reserve Participants of the Competition.

Competition participants will conduct the Symphony Orchestra of the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic. Works of Polish composers are compulsory for the participants of the competition.

The finalists, participants of the 3^rd stage of the Competition, will be awarded the following prizes and distinctions:

1st prize - EUR 20,000 and the Golden Baton
2nd prize - 10,000 euro and the Silver Baton
3rd prize - 6,000 euro and the Bronze Baton
Three equal distinctions - EUR 4,000

Honorary Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state special-purpose fund, as part of the ‘Music’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Rules and regulations: https://fitelbergcompetition.com/pl/konkurs/regulamin/

Wroclaw | 4th dimension in the NFM

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

During the concert in Wrocław on the 13^th of October, 2022 pieces from the canon of the most important compositions of chamber music will be performed at 7.00 p.m. with the participation of the German cellist Julius Berger and the Lutosławski Quartet. In the Red Room of the National Forum of Music, Paweł Mykietyn's String Quartet No. 2 and Franz Schubert's famous String Quintet in C major D 956 will be performed.

Paweł Mykietyn's String Quartet No. 2 was commissioned in 2006 by the Polish Music Festival, during which the work was performed by the artists of the Kronos Quartet. In a composition full of intriguing microtone sounds, Mykietyn confronts subtle harmonies with the raw aura created by the sound of harmonics, which make the piece extremely interesting in reception.

The String quintet in C major by Franz Schubert is the last chamber piece by this composer, completed in the fall of 1828. The work is often called a ‘cello quintet’ because of the second cello in the score.Informacja prasowa organizatorów

More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9181

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