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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 

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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

 

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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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The Scientific and Artistic Circle of the Faculty of Composition and Theory of Music of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw invites you to the Academic New Music Concert, which will take place on the 14^th of April, 2023 at 6 p.m. at the Karol Szymanowski Hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

Composers from around the world have been invited to co-create the concert, and the main goal of the event is to create a space for the exchanging of ideas and insights through multicultural dialogue. The concert program includes works by composers from Polish (Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan, Lodz) and foreign (Croatia, Switzerland, Romania) universities.

The partner of the event is the Association of Authors ZAiKS.

Admission to the concert is free!

Additional information: https://chopin.edu.pl 

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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 

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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 

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On the 2^nd of April, 2023 at 6.00 pm, performed by Camerata Silesia the Singers of the City of Katowice and the NOSPR instrumentalists conducted by Anna Szostak, we will hear Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem by Arvo Pärt, as well as Introductio ad Passionem Domini by Tomasz Orlow, a student of Julian Gembalski. The composer will also perform as an organist.

The Bach Passions undoubtedly paved the way for the next generations reaching for this genre. In the 20^th century, composers rediscovered their potential, which resulted in excellent works that we will hear during the April concert at NOSPR.

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/zespol-spiewakow-miasta-katowice-camerata-silesia-anna-szost 

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Between the 14^th of April and 14^th of May, 2023, the Cultural Events Office of the Institute of National Remembrance is organizing the 1^st ‘Sztuka źle obecna’ Festival, which will be dedicated to artists excluded and censored by the communist authorities in Poland. The festival will take place in seven cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Łódź, Cracow, Nysa and Jelenia Góra. Admission free!

The art that will be presented during the festival carried a rebellion against enslavement, very often referred to personal experiences related to the repressions suffered by Polish society in the years 1945-1990. The festival aims to bring back the memory of artists such as Andrzej Panufnik, Antoni Szałowski, Stefan Kisielewski, Roman Palester, Roman Padlewski, Tadeusz Zygfryd Passern and Stefan Behr, so that their work, once discredited and overlooked, will be reborn from the ashes and gain its rightful place in the canon of Polish music.

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On the 31^st of March, 2023, this year's series of improvisation workshops ‘Tell me a fairy tale’, organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music and the Art Deco Group Music Agency begins. The first workshop will take place in the Kindergarten No. 183 in Warsaw's Praga Północ. and pianist Jarosław Siwiński and double bass player Małgorzata Kołcz.

Classes are aimed at children aged 3-8 and their parents. They combine graphically inspired improvisations - first literary and then musical. Children create their own stories based on the presented picture books. The improvised fairy tales are then ‘translated’ into musical language under the guidance of the teachers. Creative contact with literature and music, facilitated by fun-initiating graphics and inventing simple stories, introduces children to the world of sounds, based on their natural creativity.