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Warsaw | Concert of the Winners of the 10th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors and the "Young Musician of the Year" competition

Concert of the Winners of the 10th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors and the "Young Musician of the Year" competition will take place on October 27th, 2018 at 7.00 pm in the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio. Sinfonia Iuventus will perform under the baton of Lithuanian conductor Modestas Barkauskas along with flautist Marta Chlebicka.

Modestas Barkauskas is one of the most talented and recognizable Lithuanian conductors of the young generation. Since 2008, he has been the artistic director of the youth orchestra at the B. Dvarionas School of Music in Vilnius, and has performed concerts with the orchestra in Germany, Belgium, France, Poland and Latvia. He also became artistic director and conductor of the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra in Vilnius, lectures at the Faculties of Conducting and Singing of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2017, he won third prize in the 10th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice, and the October performance with the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra is the realisation of one of the competition awards, which honour its winners in this way. He will conduct the performance of Symphony in E minor No. 1 by Pyotr Tchaikowsky.

The charming Flute Concerto in G major by Carl Stamitz will be performed by Marta Chlebicka, a pupil of the Z. Brzewski Secondary School of Music in Warsaw and the winner of the prestigious "Young Musician of the Year" competition (2018), which selects the Polish participant in the "Eurovision Young Musicians" competition (this year’s edition took place in Edinburgh in August). The style of Stamitz’s music is often compared with the clarity and charm of Mozart’s youthful works (the latter owed much to the achievements of the “Mannheim School”), which is why one of his last masterpieces, the brilliant overture to the Magic Flute, will be the perfect complement of the programme.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.sinfoniaiuventus.pl

Elbląg | The Elbląg Chamber Orchestra with Krzesimir Dębski

On January 27, 2018 at 7.00 pm, the Elbląg Chamber Orchestra will perform in front of the Elbląg audience for the last time this year. The concert will take place in the concert hall of the State Music School Complex in Elbląg and will also feature Zagan Acoustic quartet and Krzesimir Dębski.

Krzesimir Dębski has already performed several times with EOK, both as a conductor and as a soloist. This time, the virtuoso and the Orchestra will perform in the company of Zagan Acoustic – an ensemble which performs versatile music, including avant-garde, jazz and folk.

The programme of the concert will cover original composition by the musicians of the quartet, including Tango cukrowej trzpiotki and Zima by Paweł Zagańczyk. The artists will also present Country in E by Krzesimir Dębski and George Gershwin's Summertime lullaby, which has been appreciated by music lovers around the world for over 80 years. The concert will be led by conductor and accordionist Ariel Ludwiczak.

Concert held as part the „Filharmonia/ ostrożnie, wciąga!!!” programme, co-organised by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: http://www.eok.elblag.eu

Gdańsk | 7th" NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts"

Polish and world premieres, musicians from the Baltic countries, South Korea, and Sweden as well as the leaders of Polish new music scene. The 7th edition of Festival "NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts" will be held on October 25-27, 2018 in Gdańsk.

"NeoArte – Synthesizer of Arts" is a festival held in Gdansk, presenting the most interesting trends in contemporary music and art. It is a platform interconnecting artists from different cultural backgrounds and provenances, an event of intriguing and uncommon profile giving a chance for the contact with music and art as awell as a medium expanding new areas of human mind and enriching our world perspective. NeoQuartet, Polish string quartet specializing in performances of new music, is the initiator and originator of the festival.

Each concert of these year edition is planned as multi-disciplinary spectacle. During the majority of events the audience will be an active participant of the creative process. Starting from the inauguration, where NeoQuartet will present the second edition of the unique event called "Neo Electric Quartet" and Swiss artists Arturo Corrales and Emilio Guim will present their "Electric Primitivo" project, through the newest Korean art and presentation of performative music from Baltic countries in The Baltic Sea Culture Centre, finishing with the six hours-long final concert featuring the best European performers of contemporary music (Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, Kwartludium, Rei Munakata) and the performance of the newest multimedia compositions and sound installations by Wojtek Blecharz – this-year's Composer-in-Residence.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: http://neoarte.pl/syntezator-sztuki/

Katowice | BMW Art Club. The Future is art

The first of two spectacular concerts with the participation of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Humali and world-renowned musicians as part of the BMW Art Club project "The future is art" will take place on October 27, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice.

BMW Art Club 2018 is a series special events in the field of contemporary art, initiated by BMW and created by the most outstanding cultural institutions in Poland. The programme of the October concert is a kaleidoscope of works by the most important Polish contemporary composers: Concerto for horn and orchestra "Winterreise" and Concertino for trumpet and orchestra by Krzysztof Penderecki (performed by the world-famous trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki), Mi-parti for orchestra by Witold Lutosławski, Lullaby by Andrzej Panufnik, Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra, Op. 40 (performed by Piotr Orzechowski ) and Three dances for orchestra, Op. 34 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. The concert will be accompanied by video art created by Witek Orski.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.nospr.org.pl

Concert for the residents of Katowice as part of the celebration of Poland regaining its independence

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of maestro Jerzy Maksymiuk will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence on October 28, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. by performing the monumental work of Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Symphony 'Polonia'.

The visualization that will be presented during the concert are photographs belonging mainly to the collections of the Paderewski Museum in Morges, the Polish Museum in Chicago, the Polish-American Museum in Port Washington and the Institute of Józef Piłsudski in New York. The concert will be accompanied by documentary films about Paderewski: Paderewski – The Man of action, success and fame, and Presidents for Paderewski. The event will also feature an exhibition prepared by Wiesław Dąbrowski, Katarzyna Szumowska, and Przemysław Sztander: Paderewski played/won Poland on the piano.

The concert is organized under the patronage of the PWM Edition as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting performances of Polish music.

Free tickets up to a maximum of 4 per 1 person available at the NOSPR ticket office.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/pl/

Częstochowa | "We have forgotten everything..."

A patriotic music and petry spectacle "We have forgotten everything..." by Robert Dorosławski, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Theatre in Częstochowa, will be presented on November 7, 2018 at 7.00 p.m.

The interdisciplinary spectacle will include fragments of Stanisław Wyspiański's dramas: Wyzwolenie, Wesele, Warszawianka, Bolesław Śmiały as well as Polish patriotic songs and national dances. The work will be performed by the actors of the A. Mickiewicz Theater, Song and Dance Ensemble "Częstochowa", Częstochowa Philharmonic Choir "Collegium Cantorum" (awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage with the Order of Merit for Polish Culture) and maestro Janusz Siadlak (awarded with the "Gloria Artis" medal).

The album "We have not forgotten anthing ...", containing photos, memories, thoughts, and competition winning works referring to the role of art in the fight for the independence, was prepared for the occasion in cooperation with Częstochowa residents. It will be a unique souvenir for the City, created by the residents of Częstochowa on the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence.

Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://niepodlegla.czest.pl/

Independence Cantata „..only truth and memory!” in Porąbka Uszewska and Borzęcin

The Independence Cantata „..only truth and memory!” will be performed on November 4, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. in the Saint Andrew the Apostole Church in Porąbka Uszewska and on November 11, 2018 at 5.30 p.m. in the Communal Cultural Center in Borzęcin.

The composition will be presented by the Crushed Sounds BigBand Youth Orchestra, soloists and reciters under the direction of Dariusz Swoszowski. The soloists will be: Izabela Sacha, Kinga Gurgul, Anna Sowa-Gurgul, Agnieszka Myrlak, Karolina Płaneta. The cantata consists of 17 different parts, featuring selected patriotic poems and songs arranged by Dariusz Swoszowski. The author of the libretto is Agnieszka Sowa. Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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Gdańsk | Premiere of the spectacle "I dreamed a dream about the Independent"

The premiere of the music and dance spectacle Wyśniłem sen o Niepodległej (I dreamed a dream about the Independent) will be held on November 10, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. in the Artus Court in Gdańsk under the National Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda in the 100th Anniversary of Regaining Independence.

The spectacle consists of patriotic songs compiled by the composer Kamil Cieślik who is the music manager of the project. The author of the script and the director of the show is the director of the Open Theater in Gdańsk, Dariusz S. Wójcik. Apart from the popular patriotic songs performed by the instrumental group "Mea Patria" and soloists, there will be songs and piano works by Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The spectacle will include poetry by C. K. Norwid, K. Wojtyła, M. Konopnicka and Cz. Milosz and the performance of the Song and Dance Ensemble "Jantar" of the University of Gdańsk.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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Kijów – Lwów | Return of „Manru”

As part of the 7th International "Discovering Paderewski" Festival, on the centenary of regaining independence by Poland, on November 11 and December 12, 2018 at the National Opera in Kiev and the Lviv Opera House, a full stage version of the opera Manru by Ignacy Jan Paderewski will be performed by world-famous artists from Poland and Ukraine.

The pre-premiere of Manru took place in Dresden on May 29, 1901. The premiere of this work for Polish audience (with Polish libretto) took place on June 8, 1901 in the Lviv City Theater (currently Lviv State Academic Theater of Opera and Balett named after Salomea Kruszelnicka). Later, Paderewski's opera was successfully staged in various European countries.

The performance on November 11, 2018 will be the result of cooperation between the Polish-Ukrainian Foundation of Ignacy Jan Paderewski with the Lviv National Opera and the Grand Theater – National Opera in Warsaw. The artistic director of the first Polish-Ukrainian co-production of the only opera by Paderewski is Jerzy Maksymiuk, the director – Wasyl Wowkun, set designer – Maciej Walczak. The Polish-Ukrainian cast will include: Maciej Tracz (Ulana), Łukasz Motkowicz (Urok), Natalia Dacko (Jadwiga), Ludmiła Ostasz (Aza), Jurij Trycecky (Oros), Igor Mihnevych (Jagu). The Ukrainian Festival Orchestra and the Galician Academic Chamber Choir will perform under the direction of Natalia Ponomarchuk.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.paderewski.eu

Katowice | The Youth's Wednesday – Silesia presents: Marcin Kuźniar and Andrzej Grygier

Guitarists Marcin Kuźniar and Andrzej Grygier will perform on November 7, 2018 at 7.30 p.m. at the NOSPR headquarters in Katowice during the concert from "The Youth's Wednesday" series organized by the Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music "Silesia".

Shortly after the end of the seventeenth edition of the Silesian Guitar Autumn, the NOSPR Chamber Hall will host a concert of the finalist and laureate of the Jan Edmund Jurkowski International Guitar Competition. Andrzej Grygier, who won the second prize at the competition, is a student of dr. hab. Łukasz Kuropaczewski at the Academy of Music in Poznań. Since 2009 he has won over twenty guitar competitions, including the world-renowned International Guitar Competition in Zagreb this year. He will perform, among others, Cavatina by Alexander Tansman. Marcin Kuźniar, a graduate of the Katowice Academy of Music in the class of prof. Alina Gruszka and prof. Marcin Dylla, is the finalist of this year's Tychy contest. Recently, he premiered his album Song without Words, featuring compositions by Mertz, Ligeti, Schubert, Bennett, Rawsthorne, Arcas and Tárregi.

More information at: https://www.silesia.art.pl

"La Sylfide" live from the Bolshoi Theatre in cinemas on November 11th

Romantic ballet La Sylfide in the original 19th-century choreographic version will open the season of ballet broadcasts from the Bolshoi Theater on 11 November 2018. In the Praha Cinema, the broadcast will take place at 4.00 pm.

La Sylphide — produced by the prima ballerina’s father Filippo Taglioni — was premiered in Paris in 1832. Two years later, it was seen by August Bournonville, the man who made the name of Danish ballet, who decided to do a version of it for his Company. He did not have enough money to acquire the rights to the score but, nothing daunted, he commissioned new music from a Danish composer. And so — in 1836 — the Danish La Sylphide which was to become famous the world over, saw the light of day. And, thanks to the reverent attitude to this ballet of generation after generation of Royal Danish Ballet dancers, it has been preserved for posterity. La Sylphide is one of the world’s oldest surviving ballets, and a treasure in the Danish Bournonville style. Restaged for the Bolshoi by Bournonville expert Johan Kobborg, this production is the ultimate romantic masterpiece.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl

"Marnie" opera based on Alfred Hitchcock's movie live form The Metropolitan Opera on November 10th

Marnie is another contemporary work staged at The Metropolitan Opera that is inspired by a film script. Nica Muhly's new opera is based on Alfred Hitchcock's movie and the novel by Winston Graham. Broadcast to cinemas around the world will be held on November 10, 2018. In the Praha Cinema, it will take place at 6:35 pm.

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl

Warsaw | Paderewski to Chopin

The "Paderewski to Chopin" exhibition will be held at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum from November 9, 2018 to January 13, 2019.

Paderewski – a pianist, composer and politician, without whom it is impossible to think about Polish independence. What is his contribution to Chopin? This question is answered by the exhibition of memorabilia belonging to the collections of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum and the Library of the National Fryderyk Chopin Institute: valuable musical manuscripts, concert programmes and preserved iconography. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to look at Paderewski as a performer, editor and promoter of Chopin's legacy, which was a source of inspiration throughout his life. The character of the exhibition is special: some of the artist's souvenirs will be presented for the first time.

The exhibition will be accompanied by Michał Szymanowski's concert on January 8, 2019 at 6.00 pm, featuring works of Fryderyk Chopin and Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Admission to the exhibition included in the price of a ticket to the Museum, on Sundays the admission is free

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: www.chopin.nifc.pl

Wałbrzych | Paweł Pudło „The Elements – Music, Nature, Future”

A symphonic concert on 8 December 2018 at 6:00 p.m. at the Sudeten Philharmonic in Wałbrzych will premiere The Elements (Żywioły) for large orchestra, ethnic and recyclable instruments by Paweł Pudło.

The Elements is a project combining music and ecological education, based on the symphonic poem by Paweł Pudło. This is a musical tale about the forces of nature that have created the world around us for centuries. Earth, water, air, fire and humanity. The symbolism of the elements was used in the project due to its universal recognition, simple association with nature and the possibility of metaphorical, artistic reflection of processes taking place in the environment. The work will be performed by the Sudeten Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and multi-instrumentalist Kamil Rogiński conducted by Bartosz Żurakowski.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: https://filharmonia-sudecka.interticket.pl/

Subcarpathia for the Independent

"Subcarpathia for the Independent" ("Podkarpacie dla Niepodległej") festival will last until November 10, 2018.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of regaining independence, the Sucarpathian Foundation for Developement of Culture organized a series of events aimed at deepening the sense of patriotism among the inhabitants of Subcarpathia.

Performed by the Accademia dell'arco Chamber Orchestra from Bydgoszcz, we will hear works by the most eminent Polish composers such as Chopin, Górecki, Ogiński, Paderewski, Twardowski, and Wieniawski. The events will also present the history of the region and personalities who contributed in a significant way to regaining freedom by Poland in the territory of Subcarpathia. The concert will be complemented by a multimedia presentation of the valuable photographs from the period 1860-1920, prepared by the Historical Museum in Sanok. The audience will also have a chance to sing patriotic songs with the accompaniment of the orchestra.

The concerts were already held in Łańcut and Krosno. The next events will take place in Sanok, Rymanów, Przemyśl and Ustrzyki Dolne. Admission free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://niepodlegla.interpiano.pl/pol

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