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The 47th edition of the Eugeniusz Brańka Summer Organ and Chamber Concerts in Władysławowo will be held on4  July – 22 August 2019. Traditionally, admission to all concerts is free.

A holiday series of classical music concerts, inaugurated in 1973 by the composer, conductor and organist from Częstochowa – Eugeniusz Brańka – became a permanent summer event in Władysławowo. The organizer of the festival is the Center of Culture, Promotion and Sport in Władysławowo with the cooperation of the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Władysławowo and the Eugeniusz Brańka Association.

This year's edition will feature excellent performers from Poland and abroad, and its repertoire will be dominated by Polish music. The festival in Wladysławowo continues the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Independence, launched a year ago. In addition, 2019 marks the celebrations of the 200th birth anniversary of Stanisław Moniuszko. Also, the Festival will commemorate its initiator and long-term Artistic Director, Professor Eugeniusz Branka, on the 10th death anniversary. The series will also feature improvised music performed by, among others, violinist Krzesimir Dębski and trumpeter Robert Majewski. Polish music from the Baroque to the 20th century will fill the programme of the inauguration concert on 4 July.

Media patronage: Polish Music Informatoin Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://www.facebook.com/koncerty.organowe/ 

International Competition For Young Pianists „Chopin at Wawel” – based upon the National Competition For Young Pianists „Chopin at Wawel” – is the first international, monographic, piano competition held in Krakow. This year's edition will be held on 10-14 July 2019.

The originator and founder of the Competition, dr hab. Gajusz Kęska, repeatedly emphasized the need to promote the city as a center of performing the Fryderyk Chopin’s music, also by stating that in the past Krakow was the cradle of the Polish piano school. Here, in Krakow, the eminent pianists and pedagogues had lived and had led master classes: Zbigniew Drzewiecki, Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Regina Smendzianka, Adam Harasiewicz, Tadeusz Żmudziński and Jan Hoffman among others. They were all world-renowned interpreters of Chopin's music and laureates of the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.

First edition of the Competition in June 2015 has met with a great interest among the Krakow audience.Contestants came from all across the Poland and the jury highlighted the very high level of their performances. 2nd National Competition For Young Pianists „Chopin at Wawel”, which is a continuation of initiated in the previous year "the return of Chopin's music at Wawel", has gained wide acclaim not only in the country but also abroad. This fact convinced organizers to extend the Competition range and give it the international rank.

Next edition of the Competition, organized by “Porta Musicae” Artistic Association with the support od the Academy of Music in Krakow and Fryderyk Chopin Secondary Music School in Krakow, will be held on 10-14 July 2019 in the auditorium "Florianka" – the concert hall of the Music Academy in Krakow, shared for Auditions thanks to the courtesy of the Academy authorities, with support of Pro Musica Humana Association. Participants will perform in four age groups, as it was during the first edition.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Detailed programme and rules of the competition are available at: http://chopinpodwawelem.com

The 28th edition of the International Concerts of Organ and Chamber Music in Polanica-Zdrój will take place on 27 June – 5 September 2019.

International Concerts of Organ and Chamber Music in Polanica-Zdrój is a festival presenting great works of classical and contemporary music performed by renowned artists from Poland and abroad. In addition to important artistic goals, the concerts play a significant educational role through lectures on the history of music as well as socio-cultural role by cultivating the centuries-old tradition of concertising in the Lower Silesian temples, raising the cultural and tourist attractiveness of the region and promoting Polish musical culture among tourists from abroad.

The programme of this year's edition of the Festival will include works by outstanding organ music composers (J.S. Bach, F. Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, J. Pachelbel, G.F. Handel et al.) as well as organ transcriptions of classical and contemporary instrumental music. We will listen to, among others, works by Marian Sawa, Zbigniew Kruczek and Janusz Bielecki.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

DOWNLOAD: program Festiwalu

On 22 June 2019 at 6pm in the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall in Katowice, the Silesian Quartet will perform works of Mieczysław Weinberg and Józef Krogulski.

String Quartet No. 17 Op. 146 (1986), the last work in Mieczysław Weinberg's catalogue, consists of four movements played attacca. Despite some melancholic passages, it has a bright color with references to earlier works. It also has a humorous element. The last movement corresponds with the first one but it's not a synthetic finale: Weinberg had to add a reprise, which he "forgot" to write earlier...

Józef Krogulski was a pianist, composer, conductor and pedagogue (he was Chopin's friend from the composition class of Józef Elsner at the Warsaw School of Music). At the age of 10 he became famous as a prodigy (he was called "Polish Mozart") and he gave a series of concerts in Poland and Germany. His mature work includes mainly vocal eligious music composed in a conservative style. More interesting is his Octet in D minor Op. 6 (1834) for piano, two violins, flute, clarinet, cello and double bass. It represents a brillant style with influence of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's style.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/pl/koncerty/1408/kwartet-slaski-wajnberg-w-polsce 

The Orchestra of the Royal Capital City of Krakow Sinfonietta Cracovia and Lady Sinfonietka are going to the Wanda's Green Ravine City Park on the Krzesławickie Hills on 22 June 2019 at 12am.

The concert cycle "Sinfonietka" is organized by the Sinfonietta Cracovia Orchestra for the youngest music lovers. In 2016, the event received an award for the most developmental initiative for children – the Golden Sunflower Statuette.

The next concert will take place as part of the Krakow Picnic, organized by the Krakow Festival Office, Krakow PL and the Management Board of Green Areas in Krakow. There will be plenty of games, competitions and lots of good music, not only for the youngest. The programme of the concert will include a presentation of the works by Antonio Vivaldi, Krzysztof Penderecki, Stanisław Moniuszko – the patron of 2019, and joint music making. The concert will be hosted by Danuta Augustyn. Sinfonietta Cracovia will perform under the baton of Jurek Dybał.

Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://sinfonietta.pl/ 

On 22 and 23 June 2019 at 4pm the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra invites you to the concerts as part of the "Summer Concerts at Grochowska Street" series. This time we will listen to the music of the Land of Cherry Blossom and songs from the repertoire of the 10th International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition.

The cycle of afternoon chamber music concerts returns to the home of Sinfonia Varsovia. Just like last year, each Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 p.m. features performances by well-known artists and rising stars on the classical music scene. There will be 30 concerts arranged by common themes: Not just for Orchestra, Japan, Moniuszko, Relax, Travelling, Improvisation, Old Warsaw. The music will be performed by traditional ensembles and some rare configurations, including a reed trio with saxophone and bass clarinet, a cello octet and a flute quartet. The works performed will feature music of many periods and genres – from the Baroque to opera arias, jazz and contemporary and improvised music.

The soloist of the concert "Japan" on 22 June will be a great flutist Yuri Matsuzaki, who will perform original Japanese music on various flutes (transverse, shakuhachi, ryūteki). The next day we will listen to the participants of the 10th International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition in the programme composed of works by Stanisław Moniuszko, Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information available at: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org 

Another concert of the "Moniuszko from the Heart" series will take place on 23 June 2019 at 12am in the Chorzów Museum (25 Powstańców St.).

The concert dedicated to the composer whose 200th birth anniversary is celebrated this year is organised by the Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music "Silesia" in cooperation with the Museum in Chorzów. The programme will include the famous arias and duet Już ogień płonie from The Haunted Manor as well as less frequently performed songs of Stanisław Moniuszko and Jewa's dumka from the opera Jawnuta premiered in Vilnius in 1852.

Moniuszko's music will be performed by Karolina Borodziuk, this year's graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the class of dr hab. prof. AM Agata Kobierska and laureate, among others, of the 1st prize and two special prizes at the International Rudolf Petraka Vocal Competition in Żylin (Slovakia 2018) and the 3rd place in the 5th Intercollegiate Chamber Competition for Instrumental and Vocal Duets (Łódź 2018).

The other vocalist will be Karolina Wieczorek, a graduate of the academies of music in Katowice and Kraków, currently cooperating with the Krakow Opera. The artist is a laureate of the International Imrich Godin Vocal Competition – Iuventus Canti Vrable. She also won the Audience Award at the International Festival "Bel Canto" in Nałęczów and honorable mention at the Iwona Borowicka "Golden Voices of Mazovia" competition.

Tickets for PLN 5 are available at the Museum's box office.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at: https://www.silesia.art.pl/strona-glowna/koncerty/429_moniuszko-od-serca-karolina-wieczorek-i-karolina-borodziuk-w-chorzowie 

The 6th edition of the "Polish Music in Warmia and Żuławy" Festival will take place on 5-7 July 2019. The Elbląg Chamber Orchestra will give concert of Polish music in the Gothic churches of the region.

The festival will contribute to the celebration of the 200th birth anniversary of Stanisław Moniuszko, the father of Polish opera. As one of the Polish critics stated, "Moniuszko's work is a much colorful musical network, full of contrasts and paradoxes". This "network" covers not only the noble landscapes of the Haunted Manor, but also streets of medieval India from the opera Paria. The programme of the Festival will also include music of the outstanding violinist and composer Grażyna Bacewicz.

The Elbląg Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Marek Moś will perform with the invited soloists: Tomasz Mądzielewski, Maciej Magnuski, Mateusz Mosia, Mateusz Kołakowski, and Katarzyna Moś – Polish representative during the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest.

The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund under the "Moniuszko 2019 – Promesa" programme, implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance. The concert is held under the patronage of the PWM Edition as part of the TUTTI.pl project promoting the performances of Polish music.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full programme available at:http://www.eok.elblag.eu/pl/news/vi-festiwal-muzyka-polska-na-warmii-i-zulawach

In the last days of June 2019 at 4pm, the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra invites you to the concerts as part of the "Summer Concerts at Grochowska Street" series. Wwe will listen to the music of the Land of Cherry Blossom and works from the repertoire of the Sounds of Air trio.

The cycle of afternoon chamber music concerts returns to the home of Sinfonia Varsovia. Just like last year, each Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 p.m. features performances by well-known artists and rising stars on the classical music scene. There will be 30 concerts arranged by common themes: Not just for Orchestra, Japan, Moniuszko, Relax, Travelling, Improvisation, Old Warsaw. The music will be performed by traditional ensembles and some rare configurations, including a reed trio with saxophone and bass clarinet, a cello octet and a flute quartet. The works performed will feature music of many periods and genres – from the Baroque to opera arias, jazz and contemporary and improvised music.

The concert "Japan" on 29 June will feature Japanese musicians who will present not only works by Japanese composers, but also compositions by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Johann Pachelbel, Goerges Bizet, Hermann Necke, Vittoria Montign, Francesco Sartori, Henryk Wieniawski and Fryderyk Chopin. The following day the Sounds of Air trio composed of: Alicja Wołyńczyk (saxophone), Jarosław Gałuszka (accordion) and Agnieszka Kopacka (piano) will present works by Stanisław Moniuszko, Julia Schreitl, Graham Fitkin as well as Arcustico by Anna Maria Huszcza, inspired by the music of Moniuszko's Halka.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.sinfoniavarsovia.org