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The 17th edition of the Polish Promotion Festival 'August of Talents' will take placeon August 20–31, 2023. Traditionally, we will first meet in Kościuszko Park to close the ‘Music Promenade’ cycle with a vocal concert and at the same time inaugurate the Festival. Subsequent events will take place at the Radio Katowice Concert Studio and the City of Gardens chamber music hall.

The ‘Vocal Promenade’ will feature the winners of the Monika Swarowska-Walawska International Vocal Festival and Competition: Zuzanna Wrona – soprano, Mingxuan Chen – tenor and Grzegorz Rubacha – baritone, with piano accompaniment by Bogusława Suchanek.

Details: www.miasto-ogrodow.eu 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

GD->ŁDZ. Electrø-acøustic cøncert is a new project created by two young composers from Gdańsk Jakub Pawlak and Szymon Wieczorek which will be presented at the Ignorantka Club in Łódź (Legionów 22) on the 22^nd of August, 2023 at 20.00.

It is an artistic concept based on three stages of destruction of individual.

Tickets available here: https://goingapp.pl/wydarzenie/gd-ldz-koncertelektroakustyczny/sierpien-2023) and here: (https://empikbilety.pl/wydarzenie/gd-ldzkoncert-elektroakustyczny/sierpien-2023)

Additional information: https://www.facebook.com/events/997036631440040/ 

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Every year Polish music lovers gather at the Summer Festival of the New Town which takes place in the welcoming interiors of St. Jack church in Warsaw in the last days of August.

Included in the programme will be: chamber, solo, vocal, early and orchestral music. This year’s festival is taking place from the 24^th of August to the 2^nd of September and features 6 concerts, which will be held over 2 weeks on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m.

We will hear: Grażyna Bacewicz Quartet, Royal String Quartet’s interpretation of Paweł Szymański’s compositions, Piotr Maszyński’s songs performed by mezzosoprano Lilianna Zalesińska accompanied by Jolanta Pszczółkowska-Pawlik on the piano, young talented saxophonists from NEMESIS quartet. Early music lovers will enjoy the performance of early music ensemble from Cracow Musica Graziosa that will perform a programme entirely consisting of polonaises. We will be able to listen to little-known compositions of Andrzej Nikodemowicz performed by Dominika Falger, the Wiener Symphoniker member and pianist Gajusz Kęska who will perform Henryk Wieniawski’s compositions. The finale of this year’s edition of the Festival will be presented by Warsaw Camerata with Paweł Kos-Nowicki and Marcin Zdunik.

Admission to all concerts is free. Project is co-founded by the Capital City of Warsaw

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

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Association of Young Artists of the Wejherowo Region and Art'n'Voices VocalEnsemble invite you to Wejherowo for the 3^rd edition of the music festival ArteFonie – ‘The ObservARTory’, which will take place from the 7^th to the 10^th of September 2023.

ArteFonie is a musical stop on the map of northern Poland. Its idea is to present a widespectrum of classical music, with a particular focus on new trends in this genre. This year's edition is titled ‘The ObservARTory’. The space of ArteFonie will become an observatory - a place where you will be able to see new, extraordinary phenomena on the canvas of contemporary art.

The festival will open on the 7^th of September with a concert by the group Kropki, performing alternative music. The artists will present an original blend of classical sounds based on acombination of piano and double bass with electronic accompaniment.

Detailed information available on the websites: www.artnvoices.art/festiwal-artefonie/, www.facebook.com/ArteFonie-103594345267981. 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The premiere sentimental performance ‘Ecie-pecie’ on the 80^th anniversary of the death of Zygmunt Białostocki will remind us of the somewhat forgotten works of the outstanding composer of the interwar period, born in Białystok, who died in the Warsaw Ghetto.

On the 12^th of August, 2023 at 18.00, in Białystok's TON Cinema (Rynek Kościuszki 2), the singer Dariusz Wójcik (author of the script and director of the show), Szaweł Lipski Klezmer Quartet and dancers from Twist Białystok - Ballroom Dance Studios will perform. Free tickets are available at the St. Kazimierz at the ‘TON’ Cinema.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 5^th of September, 2023, the auditions of the 2^nd Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition will begin. Tickets for the final stages of all four categories and the awards gala are now on sale. Free tickets to the 1^st and 2^nd rounds of the auditions will be available soon.

103 soloists and 13 string quartets were qualified to the competition. The Director of the Competition agreed to admit a larger number of participants than stated in the regulations.

Schedule of the competition: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz?cykle=konkurs-szymanowskiego-2023-2024 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 7^th CORNO Brass Music Festival - the only festival of this type in Poland - will take place on August 14-19, 2023, as always in Zielona Góra. During six classical and jazz concerts, brass instruments will again play the main role: French horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba. We will also hear the Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dizzy Boyz Brass Band and the Chilean-Colombian band Los Pitutos.

Festival website: https://corno.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The third edition of the Young Music Festival will again promote the work of young artists and artists associated with the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region and Toruń. On September 22 - October 1, 2023, new, electroacoustic and jazz music will be presented, meetings, workshops, a competition and an exhibition will take place. Most of the events will be dedicated to Nicolaus Copernicus on the occasion of the 550^th anniversary of his birth, celebrated in 2023. Free entrance!

Soloists, ensembles and two orchestras will perform, including the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio conducted by Agnieszka Duczmal and the Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Toruń's conductor Rafał Kłoczko. The concerts ‘Music of Toruń composers’ and ‘Morning of Copernicus, or Electroacoustics for Copernicus’ will feature world premieres of works by: Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Magdalena Cynk, Adam Falenta, Maria Krzemień, Maciej Jabłoński, Piotr Moss, Mateusz Ryczek, Jędrzej Rochecki, Michał Ossowski and Paweł Dudzik.

Detailed programme: http://www.ptm.info.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 2^nd Mokotów International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music will take place on August 13-27, 2023 at the National Sanctuary of St. Andrzej Bobola. The programme of the three concerts includes a wide range of musical literature - vocal and instrumental, from the early Baroque to contemporary music. Admission to the events is free.

This year's edition will open with a concert featuring the winner of the 48^th and 50^th Fryderyk Chopin Piano Compettion in Warsaw, semi-finalist of the 18^th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition - Piotr Alexewicz, who will perform a selection of Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 and Waltzes Op. 64. The artistic director of the Festival, organist Sebastian Kuczyński, will present contemporary Polish organ music.

In the interpretation of Dariusz Wójcik, the director of the Open Theater in Gdańsk, we will hear not only Polish vocal lyrics, but also poems by Stefan Wyszyński and fragments of Karol Wojtyła's poem Mother.

Detailed programme: www.rakowiecka.jezuici.pl