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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In order to meet the requirements of music lovers who expect technical mastery and new interpretations of works belonging to the canon of music literature, it is worth giving a voice to young musicians, whose ideas often surprise the most faithful and experienced members of the NOSPR community. They will perform on this stage on the 3^rd of April, 2023 at 19.30.

Pieces by Antonín Dvořák, Gareth Farr, Francis Poulenc and Witold Lutosławski will be performed.

Recruitment for the third edition of the NOSPR Academy has been extended to include wind instruments - flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn, and program memembers can test themselves in both symphonic and chamber repertoire. The expansion of the Academy's activities translates into a greater number of concerts as part of the Youth Stage, where, apart from musicians, speakers learning the difficult profession of music critic also present their skills

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Tickets: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/koncert-uczestnikow-programu-akademia-nospr-4 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

NOSPR, conducted by its artistic director Lawrence Foster will present works by Fryderyk Chopin and Krzysztof Penderecki on the 6^th of April, 2023 at 7.30 pm. The pianist Szymon Nehring will perform as a soloist.

Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 and Symphony No. 4 'Adagio' by Krzysztof Penderecki will be performed.

Before the concert at 18.30, in the chamber hall there will be a meeting with Róża Światczyńska, who will discuss the pieces performed that evening. The entrance to the lecture is free of charge, the subscription card or a concert ticket entitles you to participate in the lecture.

Additional information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/artysci/szymon-nehring 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow invites you to the celebration of chamber ensembles for 176 keys, i.e. the 7^th International Festival of Piano Duets ‘Duettissimo’, popularizing this unique chamber ensemble. Music for two pianos and four hands will be performed by teachers and students of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music and invited guests, including Magdalena Lisak and Bartłomiej Kominek (artistic director of the project) on April 14-22, 2023.

As part of the Festival on the 16^th of April at 12.00 at the Crakow Academy of Music, during the final concert of the 64^th Young Composers' Competition, organized by the Polish Composers' Union, the verdict of the jury will be announced: one of the four world premieres of works for a piano duet will receive the Prize financed by the PZU Foundation; the awards are financed by the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union.

However, the festival calendar includes not only concerts, but also a scientific conference as well as workshops and master classes conducted by recognized pedagogues. There are also music evenings as part of Estrada Młodych and concerts for children performed by children: students of piano classes of music schools in Nowy Sącz, Cracow, Sucha Beskidzka, Słomniki and Żywiec.

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Admission to Festival concerts at is free. Tickets are required for the concerts at the Cracow Philharmonic (available on the Philharmonic website and at ticket offices), and for the concert in Saska Hall (April 22) (available from the 12^th of April in the cloakroom at św. Tomasza 43 street).

Detailed programme available on the website: https://www.amuz.krakow.pl/wydzialy/wydzial-ii-instrumentalny/katedra-kameralistyki/aktualnosci-22/duettissimo/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The theme of the jubilee 35^th Cracow International Festival of Composers, which will take place on April 15-23, 2023, is spaciousness in music. Free entrance!

During nine festival concerts, the works of composers from Poland, Estonia, France, Japan, South Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Ukraine, the USA and Italy will be presented. The audience will hear 28 world premieres and 14 Polish premieres.

At this year's festival, the aspect of spatiality will be present in numerous compositions, and as a topic it will appear at the musicology session, during which lectures will be given by: Magdalena Dziadek, Małgorzata Janicka-Hear, Maciej Jabłoński and Marcin Strzelecki. The session will be led by Renata Borowiecka.

The special guest of the festival will be the renowned Italian composer Federico Gardella, who teaches composition at the Milan Conservatory. He will give a lecture about his work and conduct master classes with students of composition at the Cracow Academy of Music.

Programme: http://festiwal.zkp.krakow.pl/ 

Marcel Chyrzyński
General and artistic Director

 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

New Music Orchestra on the 16^th of April, 2023 at 18.00 at NOSPR premises will premiere perform compositions Meeting with Jan Tyranowski by Miłosz Jan Pluta and Denuo by Tomasz Skweres. The soloists will be Joanna Freszel and Aya Masui.

Jan Tyranowski - the spiritual master of Karol Wojtyła - was to arouse interest in the future pope in the writings of St. John of the Cross, which caused his internal transformation and, consequently, his entry into the theological seminary. The piece by Miłosz Jan Pluta, inspired by Tyranowski, won the 1^st prize in the 4^th International Patri Patriae Composition Competition organized by the Second Degree Karol Szymanowski Music School in Katowice, as well as a special prize of the New Music Orchestra, which is a performance during the orchestra's concert cycle in the NOSPR chamber hall.

On the initiative of the New Music Orchestra, the composition Denuo by Tomasz Skweres was created. It consists of five parts written to poems by Maria Skweres, referring to the problem of finding an individual in a multifunctional machine, which is the modern city.

We will also hear Agata Zubel's Flash, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Library of Congress and premiered in September 2022 during the 65^th International Festival of Contemporary Music 'Warsaw Autumn'.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/wirtuozi-nowej-muzyki-orkiestra-muzyki-nowej-szymon-bywalec 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 14^th of April, 2023 at 19.00 the Silesian Philharmonic Choir and Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet invites you to an evening of great choirs and overtures to the most famous operas by Richard Wagner, Stanisław Moniuszko, Bedřich Smetana and Roman Statkowski.

We will be the first to hear the Overture to the opera Maria by Roman Statkowski – a work perhaps forgotten, overlooked. We will see how wrong it is to put it into oblivion right away when the first sounds of the introduction to this work resound, the libretto of which deals with tragic love, conflicts and unnecessary deaths caused by a fatal feeling - all based on a poetic novel by Antoni Malczewski .

The second part of the programme will be Zbigniew Noskowski's Elegiac Polonaise, originally written for piano, which will be performed that evening by the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Shemet.

More: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/wielkie-chory-i-uwertury-shemet-chor-orkiestra-symfoniczna/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Silesian Quartet invites you to the NOSPR premises on the 23^rd of May, 2023 at 19.30. As part of the project ‘Mieczysław Wajnberg - all string quartets - following the dedication’, artists will present String Quartets No. 10, 11 and 16 of this brilliant composer.

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. Thanks to this, we have the unique privilege of hearing the complete set of Weinberg's extraordinary quartets live, following the changes taking place in his musical language and following the trail of dedications hidden in the pages of the scores.

The concert will be led by Prof. Marcin Trzęsiok.

Detailed information about the project: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/kwartet-slaski-mieczyslaw-wajnberg-3 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

This year's Wrocław Chamber Music Forum will be concluded by a concert on the 23^rd of April, 2023 at 18.00. On the stage of the National Forum of Music, DJ Lenar and the musicians of the Lutosławski Quartet will be performing works by artists born in the 20^th century - Walentyn Sylwestrow, George Crumb, István Márta - and will premiere a composition by Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz.

The concept of the Wrocław Forum of Chamber Musicians is to integrate the music community from all over Poland by performing together, and engaging young artists in master classes and lectures conducted by excellent teachers. The entire event will be complimented by chamber concerts performed by musicians associated with Wrocław and invited guests.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9263 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 4^th edition of the International Festival ‘Night of Choirs’ will take place on the 27^th of May, 2023 in Ruda Śląska. The organizers invite various ensembles from all over Poland and abroad to participate in the Festival: children's, youth, senior, parish and university choirs, as well as vocal ensembles representing cultural and ethnic minorities. The deadline for submitting applications is the 27^th of April.

‘Night of Choirs’ is an artistic, educational and social event: as part of the project, concerts will be held in spaces unusual for musical performance, including the Water Tower, the Market Square, the ‘Library Station’, the Municipal Kindergarten, the Silesian Impresario Theater, parish church and concert hall of the Music School in Ruda Śląska.

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Application form: https://forms.gle/RWboZFuwPdwwMYqe8 

Festival website: https://www.facebook.com/nocchorowwrs