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On the 4^th of June 2022 at 7.00 p.m. the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Marek Wroniszewski and Emilia Głombica will perform. The winner of the Young Musician of the Year 2022 Competition, violinist Milena Pioruńska, who will represent Poland at the 20th Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Montpellier, France, will perform the Antonín Dvořák Violin Concerto, Op. 53.

Milena Pioruńska is a student of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Secondary Music School in Poznań and is already proud of her rich artistic achievements - as a soloist she has performed in over 150 concerts, also with orchestras.

The concert programme also includes Melody in A minor by Myrosław Skoryk and Symphony No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

After a note of Piotr Maculewicz

More: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The Art'n'Voices Vocal Ensemble announces the 2nd edition of the Composers' Competition for a choral piece to a text by a Polish female poet, which will be held as part of the ArteFonie Festival. The deadline for submitting competition entries is the 20^th of July, 2022.

The competition aims to popularize and develop choral literature intended for amateur choirs, therefore the subject of this year's edition is to write a piece for mixed choir in one of the two variants to choose from:

1. piece for mixed choir a cappella;
2. piece for mixed choir with piano accompaniment.

The texts for the competition composition should come from the works of Polish female poets, with particular emphasis on those of Maria Konopnicka.

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

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

The 13th Leo Festival will be held on June 2–5, 2022 at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław. The theme of this year's Festival – ‘Our neighbors and us’ - was chosen long before the outbreak of the absurd and brutal war in Ukraine. However, recent events make us ask a new question: what does neighborhood mean in our world?

The organizers invited the female representation of the Lviv National Symphony Orchestra, which will present the music of Ukrainian composers, to participate in the first concert of the Leo Festival,devoted to Ukrainian musicians and the music of this nation. Together with the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra the artists will perform Serenade for double string orchestra Op. 10 by Gottfried von Einem.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Music Society of Silesian Chamber Musicians invites you to a series of concerts 'Music by Weight', which will take place on June 19 - August 18, 2022 in Będzin and Tarnowskie Góry. Plastic caps are the key to all events of this artistic eco-project - they constitute an admission ticket.

The concerts will take place at the Mieroszewski Palace in Będzin and the Palace in Rybna. Upon the admission to the concert the ‘tickets’ (caps) will be collected and handed over to the city's ‘heart-baskets’. The concert repertoire was planned in such a way that whole families could participate in the event: the programme includes Polish contemporary music (among other works by Wojciech Kilar, Henryk Kuźniak, Dariusz Zboch), a music fairy tale, masterpieces of classical music, tango, Neapolitan songs and music from such films as Mission, Cinema Paradiso, Promised Land, Vabank.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

On the 28th of May 2022 at 7.00 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Anna Sułkowska-Migoń will perform the Overture ‘Morskie Oko’ by Zygmunt Noskowski, Violin Concerto in A major by Mieczysław Karłowicz, three symphonic poems from the cycle Má vlast by Bedřich Smetana and Melody in A minor by Myrosław Skoryk.

The performer of the violin Concerto in A major by Karłowicz will be Małgorzata Wasiucionek, a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of prof. Roman Lasocki. She also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the class of prof. Pierre Amoyal. Winner of many international competitions, in 2017 she received a doctorate in musical arts, and a year later became an assistant professor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music.

Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, who conducts the concert, works with the Orchestra as part of the ‘Conductor-Resident’ programme.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Stories about the natural world: about insects, birds and the water world will be a part of a family concert at the premises of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra on the 29^th of May at 4 p.m. The composers will offer the audience an unusual game of imagination - playing with sound, text, colours, melodies and instruments. The pieces will be presented by the New Music Orchestra conducted by Filip Huget. The soloist will be the singer Joanna Freszel.

At the concert Children's songs by Joanna Szymala to the words of Maria Konopnicka, Ornithology by Jarosław Siwiński to the text of Małgorzata Kołcz, Insectology by Anna Maria Huszcza and Hydrology by Adrian Robak, written to the words of Maja Baczyńska will be performed.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

On the 28^th of May 2022 at 6 p.m. Camerata Silesia will perform at the premises of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra at a concert dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Chłopecki (1950–2012) on the 10th anniversary of his death.

Andrzej Chłopecki was one of the most prominent Polish music critics. His volatile mind and writing style (often very sharp!) are a model for successive generations of reviewers.

Works by Krzysztof Penderecki, Stanisław Krupowicz, Paweł Mykietyn and Aleksander Nowak will be performed at the concert which will end with Paweł Szymański's Phylakterion.

   After a note of Agnieszka Nowok-Zych

Ticket information: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/camerata-silesia-chlopecki-in-memoriam 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Department of Composition and the Department of Organ, Harpsichord, Accordion, Guitar and Harp of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk invites you to the Final Concert of the Composers' Competition ‘Duet with Harp' which will take place on the 23^rd of May 2022 at 6.00 p.m. in the Senate Hall in the red building of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

The subject of the Competition for students of composition classes at Polish music academies was a 4-6 minute long piece for an instrumental duo with harp. 16 compositions were submitted to the Competition. The Competition Jury awarded 5 prizes and 1 honourable mention.

The winning compositions by Anna Stolarczyk, Piotr Kasiłowski, Szymon Kusior and Magdalena Białecka will be performed by students of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

Detailed programme: https://amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/koncert-finalowy-konkursu-kompozytorskiego-na-duet-z-harfa,977 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Concert on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the City of Mińsk Mazowiecki will take place on the 29^th of May 2022 at 6 pm on the premises of Zespół Szkół nr 1 im. Kazimierza Wielkiego in Mińsk Mazowiecki.

The city of Mińsk Mazowiecki invites you to the open-air event of the year, the oratorio and symphonic concert with the participation of the world famous mezzosoprano Małgorzata Walewska. The concert is the final event of the 600th anniversary of granting municipal rights to the city of Mińsk Mazowiecki.

The programme of the concert includes three works by Grzegorz Duchnowski, commissioned by the Museum of the Mińsk Land and will be performed by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Anna Duczmal-Mróz and Choirs of the Warsaw University of Technology and Tibi Domine.

The soloists will be Małgorzata Walewska, Anna Mikołajczyk (sopranos), Aneta Łukaszewicz (mezzosoprano), Tomasz Raff and Patryk Rymanowski (basses).

The project is co-financed by the Self-government of the Mazovian Voivodeship.

Admission to the event is free!