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Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In 2021, a group of musicians associated with the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music founded the first contemporary music ensemble in Bydgoszcz - Ludzie z Vełny. During the first concert at the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space on the 7^th of March at 7 p.m. the ensemble will premiere Die Arien der Zeit for soprano, speech synthesizer, trumpet, piano and electronics composed by the founder of the ensemble Rafał Gorzycki. Free entrance!

The aim of the group is to commission, premiere and promote the latest Polish music, which, in the opinion of the artists is not sufficiently supported and presented in our country and abroad.

The programme of the Warsaw concert includes works by Polish artists: 7 by Artur Zagajewski, Shihaikai by Aleksander Kościów, SudavikSonata by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Ludzie z Vełny by Rafał Gorzycki and his latest piece, which was commissioned by the City of Bydgoszcz and the Art Mintaka foundation. The composer will also appear as a performer during the concert.

Additional information: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/ludzie-z-velny/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The upcoming concert of Sinfonia Iuventus will take place at the Polish History Museum on the 9^th of March, 2024 at 7.00 p.m. The orchestra will be conducted by George Tchitchinadze - professor at the Tbilisi State Conservatory. The solo part will be performed by the legendary Krzysztof Jakowicz, one of the greatest Polish violinists, whose artistic and pedagogical achievements are widely known and admired.

The concert will open with the concert overture Calm See and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, followed by Karol Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1. The event will end with the last of the four symphonies by Johannes Brahms, full of melancholy.

Ticket information: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/mendelssohn-szymanowski-brahms-2/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Department of Composition of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk invites you to the Electroacoustic Concert II of music by Polish composers which will take place on the 6^th of March, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. in the Academy Concert Hall (Łąkowa 1–2). Admission to the event is free!

The concert programme consists of six works by four composers: Academy teacher Paweł Mykietyn and three students of Composition: Zuzanna Henclik (second year of first-cycle studies), Jakub Pawlak (second year of second-cycle studies) and Szymon Wieczorek (first year of second-cycle studies). Two compositions by Jakub Pawlak – Music without performance? ok... and human_kinection - will be performed for the first time.

Websites:

https://www.facebook.com/events/3819373428320560 

https://amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/koncert-elektroakustyczny-ii,2099 

Martyna Zych's conductor residency at the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic in Olsztyn in the 2023/24 season is underway as a part of the National Institute of Music and Dance "Conductor - resident" programme. On the 1^st of March 2024 at 7 p.m. in the Philharmonic Concert Hall as part of the residency programme Czech and Polish music will be performed.

Martyna Zych, a young conductor who was selected for this year's edition of the "La Maestra" competition in Paris, will conduct the Symphony Orchestra of the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic. The Concert Overture "Carnival" and the Cello Concerto in B minor by Antonin Dvořák and the First Symphony by Henryk Wars will be performed. The solo part in the Cello Concerto will be performed by Emil Olejnik, a student of the Juilliard School in New York.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia.olsztyn.pl/koncert/koncert-symfoniczny-43 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The idea of ​​the "Women's Month" concert series at the Zielona Góra Philharmonic is to popularize works of Polish and foreign composers and to present this legacy by recognized artists.

Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth and a piece written especially for this occasion by Elżbieta Sikora will be performed during the concert on the 1^st of March, 2024 at 7.00 p.m., inaugurating the third edition of the project. The final concert will take place on the 28^th of March.

Detailed programme and ticket information available on the website www.filharmoniazg.pl 

Media patronage: Polish Information Centre POLMIC

8^th Piano Competition for Children and Youth under the Honorary Patronage of Rafał Blechacz will be held on the 16^th of March, 2024 at the Nakło Cultural Center. Students of first degree music schools can take part in it. The organizers provide 3 prizes and distinctions in each group, as well as a special prize for the best performance of Fryderyk Chopin work. The deadline for submitting applications has been extended to the 29^th of February, 2024.

Over the past years, over 250 participants from various corners of Poland took part in the Nakło Piano Competition. This year the competition will be held in three age groups.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

In order to popularize the person of the outstanding Polish composer – Dariusz Przybylski, I. J. Paderewski Music School of first and 2^nd degree in Konin organizes a competition of knowledge about the life and work of this artist. The aim of the competition is to promote knowledge about this Polish composer, to arouse interest in performing and listening to contemporary music, and to confront the achievements and knowledge of students from various music schools in Poland.

The competition will take place on the 11^th of March^, 2024 in Konin and is addressed to students of primary and secondary music schools.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish counterpoint of the concert on the 2^nd of March, 2024 at 6.00 p.m. at NOSPR, as part of the series "Silesian Quartet - masterpieces with Polish counterpoint", will be a string quartet by one of the oldest living Polish composers - Zbigniew Bargielski. The composer wrote the String Quartet No. 1 during his stay in Austria - hence its name - "Alpine".

– "We recorded all the composer's quartets on CDs. It's great music, and each subsequent quartet is completely unlike the previous one. Bargielski has many great, surprising musical ideas, and his musical language is extremely youthful," say the musicians of the Silesian Quartet about Bargielski's music.

Alexandra Kozowicz

More: https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/arcydziela-z-kontrapunktem-polskim-zbigniew-bargielski 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Artifices Artificibus Association, the Silesian Association of Choirs and Orchestras and the Chórtownia Foundation invite choirs and vocal groups to take part in the 5^th International Night of Choirs Festival, which will take place on the 25^th of May 25, 2024 in Ruda Śląska. Application deadline is the 17^th of March, 2024.

The International Choir Night Festival in Ruda Śląska is an artistic, educational and social event. Its goal is not competition, but presenting valuable music to the audience. All concerts, lasting 20 minutes, take place in spaces unusual for music projects. These include: the restored 19th-century Railway Station (Library Station), the Water Tower, the building of the former "Kaufhaus" Department Store, the Silesian Einfart, the Patria Cinema and the garden of the municipal kindergarten. While walking between concert venues, the audience will have the opportunity to listen to numerous ensembles and experience a multitude of musical styles