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NOSPR on tour: Germany 2022

POLMICMedia patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In the 2022/2023 artistic season, apart from Japan, the NOSPR will also visit Germany, where it will perform in Hamburg on the 5th of November at the famous Elbphilharmonie, on the 6th of November in one of the most important concert halls in the world – Berlin Philharmonie, and on the 11th of November 11 in Kulturpalast in Dresden.

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra is a living legend: one of the best symphony orchestras in Poland and a brand recognizable in the world. By giving concerts in the most distant corners of the globe, the NOSPR has been carrying out the mission of the ambassador of Polish culture for many years.

In Germany, the National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Titus Engel will present Mi-parti for symphony orchestra by Witold Lutosławski, as well as Friedrich Cerha's Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra and Sinfonietta for Orchestra, Op. 23 by Alexander von Zemlinsky. The drummer Vivi Vassileva will perform as the soloist.

Additional information: https://nospr.org.pl/ 

Warsaw | Concert of Laureates of the 14th 20th and 21st Century Music Competition for Young Performers 2022

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The concert of the Laureates of the 14th 20th and 21st Century Music Competition for Young Performers, co-organized with Programme 2 of the Polish Radio, will take place on the 5th of November, 2022 at 19.00 at the Agnieszka Osiecka Music Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw (Myśliwiecka 3/5/7 street). Admission to the concert is free!

 We will hear masterpieces of contemporary music performed by the winners of the competition: Augustas Vasiliauskas (saxophone), Małgorzata Cieszko (oboe), Martyna Chmura (piano), Maria Sujka (flute), Julia Pałęcka (viola), Dawid Kosiński (accordion) and Maksymilian Błaszczyński (clarinet).

During the concert, awards will be presented, funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne.


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Warsaw | 19th Music Education Day - this time live

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POLMIC16 speakers, 13 workshop lessons, 5 lectures, 5 works in the concert programme - all this as part of the 19th Music Education Day, which will take place on the 24th of November, 2022 at the premises of the State Music School Complex No. 1 in Warsaw. Registration for the event, organized by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, has already started! Participation in the Music Education Days’ events is free of charge.

The building at 21 Rakowiecka street in Warsaw, also known as ‘Nowa Miodowa’, will be visited by the greatest professionals in their field. This year, 6 workshop thematic blocks have been planned, as well as a series of lectures that will address important problems faced by both educators and students (including overload, motivation and stress).

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Gdansk. Warsaw | Women in music for the second time!

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POLMICPolish Chamber Musicians' Association invites you to the 2nd edition of the ‘Kobiety w Muzyce/ Women in Music’ festival. The event will take place on the 3rd, 5th and 6th of November at the Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdańsk. This year, there will also be an accompanying concert in Warsaw, at the Nizio Gallery on the 4th of November 4th. Admission to the concerts is free.

The aim of the event is to promote women composers and their works. During this year's edition, we will hear songs such composers, among others, as Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska, Hanna Kulenty, Grażyna Bacewicz, Emilie Mayer, Ruth Schonthal. A premiere of a piece by Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk will also take place at the Festival.

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Opole | Orchestra contrasts

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The young conductor Hanna Hurkot, who is the artistic beneficiary of the ‘Conductor – resident’ programme this season, in the first part of the concert at the Opole Philharmonic on the 28th of October, 2022 at 7.00 p.m. will put together two pieces that are quite distant from each other in time. They are connected by a dreamlike character and a string orchestra as the basis of sound.

In Andrzej Panufnik's Lullaby, the strings are complemented by harps. In the Double Concerto for harmonica, percussion and string orchestra by Kacper Smoliński - they constitute the background for an exotic duo of soloists: harmonica and percussion (marimba and vibraphone). The soloists will be the composer himself - harmonica virtuoso - and drummer Bartek Miler (marimba, vibraphone).

After the intermission - in contrast to the music of the first half of the 20th and 21st centuries - pure classics: performed by the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hanna Hurkot, we will hear Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.


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Warsaw | 4th International Music Festival of Central and Eastern Europe ‘Eufonie’

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The 4th International Music Festival of Central and Eastern Europe ‘Eufonie’ will take place between the 18th and the 26th of November, 2022. There are 9 days of music feast ahead of us, during which we will taste both well-known and unknown, but worth knowing, compositions. Tickets are on sale now!

The festival refers to the tradition of the regional community of Central and Eastern European countries. This area is an interesting cauldron that allows you to discover its complexity through the variety of works and artists presented. The chairman of the Programme Council is dr Mieczysław Kominek, president of the Polish Composers' Union.

In this year's edition entitled ‘From Austria-Hungary to the Present’, we will experience both baroque splendor and classic clarity, the monumentalism of great casts, but also the intimacy of recitals. 13 concerts will take place in Warsaw, including 3 premieres of works commissioned by the National Center for Culture and a special event: an exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery.

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Laureates of the 14th 20th and 21st Century Music Competition for Young Performers 2022

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On the 15th of October 15, 2022, the Jury of the 14th 20th and 21st Century Music Competition for Young Performers 2022 (Anna Dorota Władyczka, Dariusz Przybylski, Maciej Żółtowski) ended their deliberations, which started on the 9th of October.

The Laureates' concert will take place on the 5th of November at 19.00, at the Agnieszka Osiecka Music Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw.

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

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

Additional information: www.ptmw.art.pl 
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Zielona Góra | Zielona Góra Philharmonic lead by Paweł Przytocki

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Symphonic works by Tadeusz Baird, as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav Mahler will be performed on the 21st of October, 2022 at 19.00 at the Zielona Góra Philharmonic by the Orchestra of this institution under the direction of Paweł Przytocki.

Maestro cooperates with the majority of philharmonic orchestras in Poland, as well as with symphony and chamber orchestras abroad including Budapest Concert Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle. Since 2008 Paweł Przytocki has been associated with the Department of Conducting at the Academy of Music in Krakow, where he teaches a conducting class. In 2017, he became the artistic director of the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź.

The soprano part in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G major will be performed by Sylwia Olszyńska, prize winner of several international competitions and lecturer at the Academy of Music in Katowice.

Ticket information: http://filharmoniazg.pl/11391-2/ 

Wrocław | Chamber Music in NFM

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Violin, viola, clarinet and cello - these are the instruments that will be the heroes of the concert at the National Forum of Music on the 20th of October, 2022 at 19.00. The musicians playing them will present rarely performed works by well-known classical, romantic and contemporary composers.

We will hear Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 2nd Duo in B flat major for violin and viola, KV 424, Krzysztof Penderecki's Quartet for clarinet and string trio, and Johannes Brahms' Clarinet quintet in B minor.

The virtuoso ensemble - Viviane Hagner (violin), Nathan Amaral (violin), Emma Wernig (viola), Alexey Stadler (cello), Andrzej Ciepliński (clarinet) - will also perform Witold Lutosławski's Bukoliki arranged for chamber ensemble.

Ticket information: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/9527 

Premiere of the Cracow Singers CD 'Under the falcon’s wing'

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POLMICThe latest CD of the Cracow Singers chamber choir is a very special musical trace. The very concept of the release was created after last year's joint Polish-Hungarian concert project by Cracow Singers and under the direction of the excellent choirmaster - the head of the Hungarian Radio Choir – Zoltán Pad. The album with a symbolic title – Under the falcon’s wing / A sólyom szárnya alatt - was recorded at an equally symbolic time – exactly on the 140th anniversary of the birth of two outstanding Polish and Hungarian composers – Karol Szymanowski and Zoltán Kodály.

Apart from the series Six Kurpian Songs by Karol Szymanowski and three compositions by Zoltán Kodály, the album includes perhaps the most beautiful choral compositions by contemporary Polish and Hungarian composers – Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ferenc Liszt, Levente Gyöngyösi and Márton Levente Horváth.


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Katowice | Educational symphonic concert 'Szymanowski – portrait 140/85'

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POLMICNOSPR invites students of 7th and 8th grade of primary schools and secondary school students to educational symphonic concerts of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, which will take place on the 19th of October at 11.00 and 13.00 and will be conducted by Alexander Humala. Admission to the event is free.

‘Szymanowski - portrait 140/85’ is a concert organized in connection with the: the 140th birthday and 85th anniversary of death of Karol Szymanowski. The programme will guide the audience through various stages of the work of this one of the most significant composers in the history of Polish music.

Winners of the 1st Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition: violinists Sławomir Wilga and Roksana Kwaśnikowska will perform at the concerts.

 

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Katowice | LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio and Polish music

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On the 21st of October, 2022 at 7.30 pm at the premises of the NOSPR LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio will present a rarely performed repertoire for a reed trio - works by Aleksander Tansman, Witold Lutosławski, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Benedykt Konowalski, Wojciech Widłak and Andrzej Krzanowski.

Oboe, clarinet, bassoon - this set of instruments is usually not mentioned among the favorite chamber ensembles. But the Polish heritage abounds in compositions intended for this composition. Its interesting, mostly 20th-century representation will sound during the LLLeggiero Woodwind Trio concert.


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Greater Poland | 4th International Festival of Józef Madeja

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International Józef Madeja Festival is an artistic project that is organized annually in October in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The organizer of the festival is Józef Madeja Association. As part of this year's 4th edition of the Festival (October 21-30, 2022), there will be many interesting events open to the public. The master workshops will be conducted by artists such as: clarinetist Olli Leppäniemi (Finland), bassoonist Theo Plath (Germany), violinist Florin Croitoru (Romania) as well as Paweł Kroczek and Piotr Lato (Poland).

On the 22nd of October the unique Festival Clarinet Orchestra - Józef Madeja Clarinet Ensemble, as well as clarinetists Olli Leppäniemi, Paweł Kroczek, Piotr Lato, soprano Barbara Tritt and pianist Hanna Lizinkiewicz will perform at 5 p.m. during the Inauguration Concert at the Jankowice Palace. The concert will mark the celebrations of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Józef Madeja - composer, clarinetist and distinguished organizer of concert life in Greater Poland. On the 26th of October at 6.00 p.m. in Aula Nova of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań a chamber music concert will take place, during which bassoonist Theo Plath, violinist Florin Croitor and pianists Andrzej Tatarski and Bartłomiej Wezner will perform. On the 30th of October at 6.00 p.m. in Kórnik Castle, the Erlendis Quartet, a recognized guitar quartet will perform. The accompanying event will be a concert in Berlin, during which the Apeiron Trio will perform.

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London | Jubilee concert on the 5th anniversary of the Polish Music School

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On the 5th of November, 2022 at 17.00 in the Theater Hall of the Polish Social and Cultural Center in London, a jubilee concert will take place on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Polish Music School in London under the honorary patronage of the National Centre for Culture Poland and the Polish Composers' Union.

The Polish Music School is the largest institution of this type in Great Britain and the first music school in the world to be named after Sir Andrzej Panufnik. Currently, over 95 students aged 5 to 18 study at the school.

The jubilee concert will be accompanied by the ceremony of naming the school after Sir Andrzej Panufnik. Lady Camilla Panufnik - the composer's wife will participate in it.


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Bydgoszcz | Premiere of the 'Symphony of Time' by Marcin Gumiela

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On the 19th of October, 2022 at 19.00 at the I. J. Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, the premiere of the Symphony of Time for a soloist and electronic media, composed by Marcin Gumiela, teacher at the State Music School Complex, will take place.

The soloist of the evening will be cellist Tomasz Strahl and the conductor Henryk Wierzchoń.

The task was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the Composers’ Commissions programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

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