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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 2Act Foundation invites you to the final concert of the 3^rd edition of the "Art & Violence" Composition Competition. On the 23^rd of June, 2023 at 6.00 p.m. in the Potocki Palace in Cracow (Rynek Główny 20) the winning piece Intimidazione by the Łódź composer Tomasz Szczepanik will be premiered. Free entrance!

The subject of this year's competition was a composition for harpsichord and electronics. We will hear it performed by the world-famous harpsichordist Gośka Isphording, a lecturer at the Amsterdam Conservatory. The expert in contemporary harpsichord literature will also present Cantate by Peteris Vasks, Yuomec by Aleksandra Gryka, Espressivo by Graciane Finzi, éskhatos | at one end of a continuum by Martyna Kosecka. The Polish premiere of Anne Thorvaldsdottir's Fingerprints will also take place.

The partners in organizing the competition and the concert are: Association of Authors ZAiKS, POLMIC, Cracow Festival Office / Potocki Palace.

Free entrance tickets to be downloaded from the website KBF:BILETY and via app KBF:PLUS: https://kbfbilety.krakow.pl/wydarzenia/koncert-finalowy-3-edycja-konkursu-kompozytorskiego-art-violence- 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 13^th of June, 2023, a press conference was held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw announcing the 3^rd International Competition of Polish Music, which will take place from the 2^nd to the 9^th of July at the Artur Malawski Podkarpacie Philharmonic in Rzeszów. The event popularizes less known Polish music of the 19^th and 20^th centuries both among international performers and the audience. The winners of the third edition, in addition to financial prizes worth over EUR 100,000, will also receive many interesting concert proposals.

The conference was attended by: Wanda Zwinogrodzka - Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Paula Lis -Sołoducha - Director of National Institute of Music and Dance, Prof. Marta Wierzbieniec - Director of the Podkarpacka Philharmonic, Lech Dzierżanowski - Deputy Director of the National Institute of Music and Music, and invited journalists.

Honorary Patronage over the Competition was taken by the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda. The competition is financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and of the funds of the Marshal of the Podkarpacie Voivodeship.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Symphonic concert closing the 71^st artistic season of the Opole Philharmonic will take place at 19.00. The whole event will be conducted by the director of the Philharmonic, Przemysław Neumann, and Jakub Kuszlik - the best Polish pianist of the 18^th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw - will perform as a soloist.

The artists will perform Fryderyk Chopin's Piano Concerto in E minor. Among the comic operas by Richard Strauss, the most famous is Der Rosenkavalier, or The Knight of the Rose. In the interpretation of the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra we will hear a suite from this opera.

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

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Art’n’Voices Vocal Ensemble and the Association of Young Artists of Wejherowo have the honor to invite you to participate in the 3^rd edition of the Composition Competition  organized as part of the ArteFonie 2023 Festival. The deadline for submitting competition entries is the 30^th of July, 2023.

The competition aims to popularize and develop choral literature for amateur choirs, with a particular emphasis on female choirs. The subject of this year’s edition is a piece in one of two available options:

1. a piece for a female choir a cappella

2. a piece for a female choir with piano accompaniment.

In connection with the designation of Nicolaus Copernicus as the patron of the year 2023, the composed piece must include the following words by the astronomer: „A cóż piękniejszego nad niebo, które przecież ogarnia wszystko, co piękne?” (‘What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty’) (in Polish!)

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

The rules of the competition and the application form can be downloaded from the ensemble's website in the festival tab at https://artnvoices.art/festiwal-artefonie/

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

At the final concert of the artistic season 2022/2023, Sinfonietta Cracovia will host the star of the French horn – virtuoso Ben Goldscheider. On the 22^nd of June, 2023 at 19.30 he will perform together with the Cracow Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak.

The programme will include the Horn Concerto in E flat major by Richard Strauss. There will be film motifs (music by Nino Rota) and contemporary music: the concert will open with the piece Orsi by composer Martyna Kosecka. The culmination of the concert will be Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, described by Wagner as ‘the apotheosis of dance’. Can you imagine a more beautiful season finale?

More: https://www.sinfonietta.pl/koncerty/ben-goldscheider 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Hashtag Ensemble will present the project ‘Introverts'Collective’, on the 15^th of June, 2023 at 19.00 in their new place. The event will be a concert by Rafał Zapała with the participation of the composer himself.

The concert is also an attempt to depart from the linearity of the musical course, to exploit the possibilities of ubiquitous technology to go beyond the stereotypical interaction of musicians and the audience and enter a situation of truly partner dialogue, horizontality of communication and openness to the unpredictable.

‘Introverts' Collective’ is the result of the Fulbright scholarship (Fulbright Senior Award 2021), and the programme of the evening consists of four pieces from the years 2018-2021: Futility, Judge Me Again, Scrolling to Zero and a composition created especially for this project, from which the whole was named: Introverts' Collective.

After the concert, there will be a meeting with the composer, led by Piotr Tkacz-Bielewicz.

More: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/introverts-collective/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The heavenly voice of one of the best singers of our time has won multiple Grammys. On the 18^th of June, 2023 at 18.00 we will have a unique opportunity to experience the beauty of Joyce DiDonato's mezzo-soprano and participate in a truly heavenly show called Eden, which combines works by composers from around the world, movement and theater - hailed by critics as ‘iconic’ and ‘groundbreaking’.

Eden is a show of Joyce DiDonato's skills refined to the smallest detail. Spanning four centuries of music - from Gluck, Handel and Cavalli to Mahler, Ives and a new commissioned piece by Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman - Eden is a fiery declaration of hope that celebrates the majesty, power and mystery of Nature through the unifying and transforming power of music.

Press release

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/eden 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On July 3-9, 2023, the 2^nd Instrumental Masterclasses "Enchanted Virtuoso" will take place in Dobczyce. They are intended for children (from the age of 8) and youth of art schools of the 1st and 2nd degree and students of music academies. This year, the courses will be conducted by such artists as Łukasz Błaszczyk, Monika Szweda (violin), Grzegorz Frankowski (double bass), Agata Igras (flute), Tomasz Polak (clarinet), Gajusz Kęska (piano) and Konrad Mastyło (ensemble workshops). The deadline for submitting applications is the 27^th of June.

During the courses, lecturers will conduct 5 lessons (45 minutes) for each student. Each participant has the opportunity to work with an accompanist (2 x 20 min.).

At the end of the courses, there will be a concert of lecturers and participants (July 8), the programme of which consists of the works of Polish artists. The Polish premiere of Miłosz Magin's Concerto No. 2 for piano, string orchestra and timpani will take place: Gajusz Kęska will perform as the soloist, while Marek Hampel will conduct. During the concert, students selected by the course teachers will have the opportunity to present a piece from their repertoire with the Orchestra of the Cracow Cultural Syndicate.

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://szkolamuzyczna.dobczyce.pl/stowarzyszenie/kursy-mistrzowskie 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra based in Katowice announces that Marin Alsop will be the new Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of NOSPR in the 2023/2024 season. Key to Alsop's tenure will be close cooperation with the institution's General and Programme Director, Ewa Bogusz-Moore, in shaping the orchestra's repertoire and further strengthening its national and international reputation.

In the upcoming season, Alsop will conduct a number of symphonic concerts, the final events of the 2^nd Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition and the opera Black Mask by Krzysztof Penderecki, which will be recorded by the artists.

Alsop remains the Principal Conductor of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (RSO Wien).

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl