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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 15^th edition of the Schaeffer Era Festival - an interdisciplinary event popularizing the work of Bogusław Schaeffer - will take place on the 6^th of November, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at the Zachęta Art Gallery. Happening titled "Multimedia something" directed by Magdalena Piekorz will be the quintessence of Schaeffer's multi-format work. Admission to the event is free!

Avant-garde artists from all over the world will take part in this crazy happening: vocalist Janusz Radek, multi-instrumentalist Nathan Davis, beatboxer and hip-hop rapper from Guyana Andy Ninvalle, jazz pianist and composer Artur Dutkiewicz, bassist and arranger Piotr Zaufal with his band, Indian drummer Ghatam Giridhar Udupa, who plays an instrument called Ghatam, and Judyta Grabowska will play the singing bowls. The evening will be led by Sebastian Perłowski from behind the conductor's desk.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble, winner of the "Fryderyk" award (2021), together with friends invite you to a unique musical performance "Laboratory of Ballads and Romances. Art'n'Voices vs. Adam Mickiewicz", which will take place on the 3^rd of November, 2023 at the Atelier Theater in Sopot, at 7 p.m.

The octet will perform improvisations to recited poetry by Mickiewicz and works by young Polish composers, reflecting the atmosphere and character of Ballads and Romances. Musicians, actors and visual artists will enter into a creative dialogue. The event will be complemented by improvisations performed by dancer and choreographer - Joanna Nadrowska - and jazz violinist, Tomasz Chyła.

Piotr Kosewski is the director of the performance. The four different kinds of art combined into one musical, literary and visual performance is an event that will allow us to reinterpret Adam Mickiewicz's immortal texts.

Tickets: https://www.kupbilecik.pl/imprezy/108898/Sopot/Laboratorium+Ballad+i+Romans%C3%B3w/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 30th of October, 2023 at 11:00 in the Sports and Culture Center in Garwolin and on the 4^th of November at 12:00 pm in the Municipal Cultural Center in Józefów, thanks to the Polish Contemporary Music Society, students of local schools will go on a journey to the world of opera. Admission is free!

The meeting will begin with a "musical lesson", during which composer Jarosław Siwiński and director of plays for children Grzegorz Ociepka will tell the youngsters about, among other things, what an opera is, how it is created and who is needed to admire it on stage. This introduction will be followed by a performance of the micro-opera Silent Fish.

Details: www.ptmw.art.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

At a gala ceremony on the 23^rd of October, 2023 at 7 p.m. at the Warsaw Philharmonic, the awards of the Polish music community Coryphaeus of Polish Music. The honorary award for lifetime achievement this year went to Irena Santor - the first lady of Polish song, performer of many unforgettable hits that make up the history of the Polish music scene.

More about the Award: www.koryfeusz.org.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk (soprano), Anna Bernacka (mezzo-soprano) and pianist Monika Kruk will present three song cycles by Mieczyslaw Wajnberg written to Polish poetry by Julian Tuwim on the 3rd of November, 2023 at Festival WØD-Weinberg 2023 at the Orchesterhaus in Salzburg.

We will hear rarely performed works from different periods of the composer's life: Old Letters, Op. 77, Memory, Op. 62, and the composer's Gypsy Bible, Op. 57. There will also be Three Songs, Op. 22, to poems by Adam Mickiewicz.

The main premise of the WØD-Weinberg 2023 festival, organized by the West-East Divan Association (WØD for short), is to present works by composers drawing on the heritage of different cultures. In addition to Wajnberg's works, we will hear compositions by Valentin Silvestrov, Sergei Prokofiev, Coptic, Arabic and Indian music.

Additional information: https://instytutpolski.pl/wien/pl/2023/10/13/festival-wod-weinberg-2023-2/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The case of the film adaptation of Władysław Reymont's Peasants, which became a Polish candidate for an Oscar, is special. The characteristic animation technique involves painting each frame of the film with oil paint on canvas, which refers to easily recognizable cultural codes, the well-known aesthetics of Young Poland painting. This is emphasized by the soundtrack, which was prepared by Lukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski and the Rebel Babel Film Orchestra. The artists, along with Sutari, Maria Pomianowska, Karolina Skrzynska and the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, will present it at a concert at the NFM on the 14^th of January, 2024 at 7 p.m., with excerpts from this remarkable film accompanying them on screen.

Lukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski, in this project by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman's international Rebel Babel Film Orchestra, has invited the most interesting folk music composers, creating a cross-sectional compendium of ancient Slavic music.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 27^th of October, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at the Stanisław Moniuszko Grand Theater in Poznań will host the premiere of the ballet "The Snow Queen" with music by Przemysław Zych and choreography by Robert Bondara.

Of the many fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, "The Snow Queen" is the one that can be perfectly translated into the language of dance. Mirror reflections, icy spaces, sparkling snowflakes make the characters' steps uncertain, and each of them looks for their own movement and rhythm.

Orchestra of the Grand Theater in Poznań will be conducted by Aleksander Gref.

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

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

"Lab Libitum" is a double amount of improvised music. On the 24^th of October, 2023, at 7 p.m., recognized musicians from Poland and South Korea will perform in the Hashtag Lab. In the first part of the evening, at the invitation of the curators of the festival, multi-instrumentalist and composer Piotr Zabrodzki will perform, in the second part - performer and drummer Jihye Kim will be accompanied by members of Hashtag Ensemble: Ania Karpowicz, Lilianna Krych and Wojciech Błażejczyk.

Hashtag Lab is not only a place for workshops, concerts and exhibitions, but the only hub for contemporary music in Poland, whose mission is to connect musicians of different cultures and traditions. Thanks to cooperation with the Korean Culture Center, percussionist, performer and composer Jihye Kim will perform on Barska Street, whose fascination with Korean percussion instruments goes far beyond the area of ​​traditional music and is directed towards completely new forms of expression.

Before the concert at 6:00 p.m. there will be a vernissage of an exhibition of traditional Korean instruments, organized in cooperation with the Korean Center in Warsaw. On the 25^th and 26^th of October exhibition will be open from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ticket information: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/lab-libitum/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

As part of the programme of the Polish Society of Contemporary Music "Creative Warsaw" on the 28^th of October, 2023 at 5 p.m. in "Nowa Miodowa" there will be a concert summarizing the workshops "Don't be afraid to improvise!" for students of the Emil Młynarski First Degree Music School in Warsaw. Admission free!

The project was prepared by: double bassist Małgorzata Kołcz and composer and pianist Jarosław Siwiński. They have both been using their own methods in education for many years, promoting the idea of ​​teaching improvisation to the youngest, working with children in various parts of Poland. During the workshops, participants broadened their horizons, learning about an alternative to the all-encompassing mass culture and opening up to contemporary music, but also - learning mutual respect and cooperation, as well as independence in thinking and acting.

During the concert, both musical youth, who may become part of the world of contemporary music in the future, and the authors of the project will perform.