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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.

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

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The concert inaugurating the new artistic season of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra will take place on the 15^th of October, 2022 at 6.00 p.m. We will hear works by Mieczysław Weinberg and Mark-Anthony Turnage. The ensemble will be led by Joseph Swensen, while the solo parts will be performed by the clarinetist Waldemar Żarów and the violinist Daniel Hope.

The evening will begin with a short lyrical work by British composer Turnage, Lullaby for Hans. Then we will hear Wajnberg's Concertino for solo violin and strings.

The most anticipated part of the concert will be the first Polish performance of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Lament, a composition written in 2018–2019. The concert will end with the 4^th Chamber Symphony for Strings and Clarinet, Op. 153 by Wajnberg - a work that is deeply moving, full of great emotions.

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More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9183 

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On the 14^th of October 14, 2022 at 19.00 the Symphony Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmonic will be conducted by Daniel Oren - an outstanding personality and a juror of the upcoming 11^th International Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Conductors. The concert will be an opportunity to encounter the work of the Competition Patron - the Poem Song of the Falcon and the work of one of his closest friends, Karol Szymanowski.

The solo part in Karol Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 2 - a composition arranged by Grzegorz Fitelberg - will be performed by Jakub Jakowicz. Similarily to the 1^st Concerto, this one is dedicated to the composer's friend - violinist Paweł Kochański, author of cadences to both concertos. Jakub Jakowicz will also perform during the Conductors' Competition in 2023.

The evening will end with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’, an apotheosis of heroism.

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More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/gwiazdy-sezonu-daniel-oren-jakowicz-orkiestra-symfoniczna/ 

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The Association of Young Artists of the Wejherowo Region and the Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble invite you to an event ‘Laboratory of Ballads and Romances. Art'n'Voices vs. Adam Mickiewicz ‘, which will take place on the 29^th October, 2022 at 7.00 p.m. in the Savior Church in Sopot (Evangelical-Augsburg Parish). Admission to the event is free!

‘Laboratory of Ballads and Romances’ is an interdisciplinary word-music project with elements of stage movement. On the last Saturday of October, the space of the Savior Church in Sopot will become a kind of laboratory where artists of the younger generation will experiment with Mickiewicz's work, trying to transplant the idea of ​​Polish Romanticism into 21st-century art.

This task will be undertaken by the Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble (winner of the ‘Fryderyk’ 2021) specializing in the performance of contemporary a cappella music. Poetry published 200 years ago, will be presented in a completely new version. The ensemble will perform live improvisations as well as works by young Polish composers, reflecting the atmosphere and character of Ballades and Romances.

Together with the musicians, actors - Piotr Jankowski and Marta Kalmus-Jankowska, dancer - Joanna Nadrowska and jazz violinist Tomasz Chyła will enter into a creative dialogue with the poet. Visualizations prepared by Gary Garnowski will complement the interdisciplinary event. The whole is directed by Piotr Jankowski.

The project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the ‘Ballads and Romances’ programme.

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On the 19^th of October, 2022 at 19.00 at the I. J. Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, the premiere of the Symphony of Time for a soloist and electronic media, composed by Marcin Gumiela, teacher at the State Music School Complex, will take place.

The soloist of the evening will be cellist Tomasz Strahl and the conductor Henryk Wierzchoń.

The task was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the Composers’ Commissions programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

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International Józef Madeja Festival is an artistic project that is organized annually in October in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The organizer of the festival is Józef Madeja Association. As part of this year's 4^th edition of the Festival (October 21-30, 2022), there will be many interesting events open to the public. The master workshops will be conducted by artists such as: clarinetist Olli Leppäniemi (Finland), bassoonist Theo Plath (Germany), violinist Florin Croitoru (Romania) as well as Paweł Kroczek and Piotr Lato (Poland).

On the 22^nd of October the unique Festival Clarinet Orchestra - Józef Madeja Clarinet Ensemble, as well as clarinetists Olli Leppäniemi, Paweł Kroczek, Piotr Lato, soprano Barbara Tritt and pianist Hanna Lizinkiewicz will perform at 5 p.m. during the Inauguration Concert at the Jankowice Palace. The concert will mark the celebrations of the 130^th anniversary of the birth of Józef Madeja - composer, clarinetist and distinguished organizer of concert life in Greater Poland. On the 26^th of October at 6.00 p.m. in Aula Nova of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań a chamber music concert will take place, during which bassoonist Theo Plath, violinist Florin Croitor and pianists Andrzej Tatarski and Bartłomiej Wezner will perform. On the 30^th of October at 6.00 p.m. in Kórnik Castle, the Erlendis Quartet, a recognized guitar quartet will perform. The accompanying event will be a concert in Berlin, during which the Apeiron Trio will perform.

In the concerts chamber music works by J. Madeja, K. Rathaus, I. J. Paderewski, H. Wieniawski, C. Debussy, C. Saint-Saëns will be presented. Premieres of works by Radosław Mateja, Włodzimierz Kotoński and Monika Kędziora will also take place at the Festival. Admission to all concerts is free.

More details: www.festiwalmadei.pl

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On the 5^th of November, 2022 at 17.00 in the Theater Hall of the Polish Social and Cultural Center in London, a jubilee concert will take place on the occasion of the 5^th anniversary of the Polish Music School in London under the honorary patronage of the National Centre for Culture Poland and the Polish Composers' Union.

The Polish Music School is the largest institution of this type in Great Britain and the first music school in the world to be named after Sir Andrzej Panufnik. Currently, over 95 students aged 5 to 18 study at the school.

The jubilee concert will be accompanied by the ceremony of naming the school after Sir Andrzej Panufnik. Lady Camilla Panufnik - the composer's wife will participate in it.

That evening, in addition to performances by students of the Polish Music School, on the stage will also perfom "Orlęta" – Polish Folk Song and Dance Group, as well as the pianist Łukasz Krupiński, who is the winner of the 7th International Piano Competition in San Marino, and a semi-finalist of the 17th International Piano Competition. Fryderyk Chopin in 2015.

Polish Music Edition and National Institute of Music and Dance are concert's partners.

Admission to the concert is free.

More about the school: https://psmlondyn.com/ 

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On the 21^st of October, 2022 at 7.30 pm at the premises of the NOSPR LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio will present a rarely performed repertoire for a reed trio - works by Aleksander Tansman, Witold Lutosławski, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Benedykt Konowalski, Wojciech Widłak and Andrzej Krzanowski.

Oboe, clarinet, bassoon - this set of instruments is usually not mentioned among the favorite chamber ensembles. But the Polish heritage abounds in compositions intended for this composition. Its interesting, mostly 20th-century representation will sound during the LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio concert.

These will be: the neoclassical Suite by Aleksander Tansman, the 'laboratory' Trio - as Stefan Kisielewski wrote - of Witold Lutosławski , the clearly presented Andrzej Dobrowolski Trio, Benedykt Konowalski's Mini-Rondo astonishing with the changeability of moods, and the existential Salve Regina by Wojciech Widłak and Andrzej Krzanowski's Partita.

It is worth listening and liking - especially since it will be encouraged by valued chamber musicians, including two musicians from the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

After a note of Piotr Mika

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/llleggiero-woodwind-trio 

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The latest CD of the Cracow Singers chamber choir is a very special musical trace. The very concept of the release was created after last year's joint Polish-Hungarian concert project by Cracow Singers and under the direction of the excellent choirmaster - the head of the Hungarian Radio Choir – Zoltán Pad. The album with a symbolic title – Under the falcon’s wing / A sólyom szárnya alatt - was recorded at an equally symbolic time – exactly on the 140th anniversary of the birth of two outstanding Polish and Hungarian composers – Karol Szymanowski and Zoltán Kodály.

Apart from the series Six Kurpian Songs by Karol Szymanowski and three compositions by Zoltán Kodály, the album includes perhaps the most beautiful choral compositions by contemporary Polish and Hungarian composers – Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ferenc Liszt, Levente Gyöngyösi and Márton Levente Horváth.

The public task is co-financed by the Wacław Felczak Institute of Polish-Hungarian Cooperation.

A public task co-financed by the City of Cracow.