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For the second time, students playing violin, cello, viola and double bass took part in the free Hashtag Ensemble Young Academy workshop. At the end of the workshop, they will perform at the final concert at the Hashtag Lab on the 20^th of April 2024 at 2 p.m. and receive diplomas!

Music school students are very rarely exposed to contemporary music. Thanks to the Young Hashtag Ensemble Academy, which was created by violinist Marta Piórkowska, first- and second-degree music school students found out that new music means a lot of interesting works and mysterious performance techniques. Beginning in October, a group of nine students met on Saturday mornings to learn new repertoire, to hum in chamber ensembles, and to improvise without fear of evaluation.

Additional information: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/final-mlodej-akademii/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 2^nd Game Music Fest - an interdisciplinary festival devoted to the theme of music in video games, organised by the Silesian Philharmonic - will take place from 19-21 April 2024. The programme contains 3 concerts, including a big show in Katowice's Spodek, an exhibition, an opening and a panel discussion.

The game music festival owes its interdisciplinary character to the cooperation between the Silesian Philharmonic and numerous partners. Universities, companies, public institutions, foundations - cooperation with science, business or local government makes it possible to prepare spectacular concerts, exhibitions, discussion panels and to organise events in various locations.

Details: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/game-music-fest/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The mysterious, intuitive and inspiring Festival will thrill Szczecin inhbitants for the fifth time, this time crossing the boundaries of the senses. West Pomerania's largest classical music festival SZCZECIN CLASSIC titled "6 Senses" will take place from the 27^th of April to the 3^rd of May 2024. Musicians will play on the strings of imagination during five unique concerts. In addition, accompanying events are planned as part of the "Maltówka" series.

Diverse ensembles, from duos to the great festival orchestra, a varied and surprising programme, full of great names: both composers and performers. World-famous artists, soloists and leaders of leading European orchestras will perform: Vasko Vassilev, Daniel Stabrawa, Jakub Jakowicz, Emanuel Salvador, Andriy Viytovych, Konstantin Heidrich, Piotr Szumieł, Janusz Widzyk. Young performers who will practice during the Szczecin Classic Academy master classes will also take part in the concerts.

Festival website: https://szczecinclassic.pl/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, the Wrocław Chamber Players and the National Forum of Music invite you to the final concert of the Wrocław Chamber Players Forum on the 21^st of April 2024 at 12.30 p.m. at the NFM. Piotr Sałajczyk, Szymon Krzeszowiec and Arkadiusz Dobrowolski, or the Wajnberg Trio, will present youthful works of the great composers Andrzej Panufnik and Erich Korngold.

The Piano Trio Op. 1 was composed by the only nineteen-year-old Panufnik in 1934. After the Second World War, the composer reconstructed from memory the score of this romantic style work, which was burnt down in composer’s Warsaw flat during the Warsaw Uprising. This was Panufnik's first major compositional achievement: the Warsaw Conservatory student Mieczysław Wajnberg participated in the premiere of the Trio in 1936.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 14^th edition of the Scientific Session in the series "Ideas of music - ideologies in music" entitled "Composition Ideas versus the Art of Interpretation" will deal with the broadly understood relationship between composer and performer. The event is aimed at first-, second- and third-level music students - music theorists, composers, musicologists, as well as performers interested in this year's topics. The conference will be held at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk on the 27^th of May. Participation is free of charge. The deadline for submissions is the 21^st of April 2024 (by 23:59).

The immediate impetus for this theme was a meeting between composition students and performers specialising in recent repertoire - pianist Piotr Nowicki and percussionist Paweł Nowicki, who co-found the Nowicki Duo.

To take part in the conference sending of the application is required: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Additional information: https://www.amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/xiv-ogolnopolska-sesja-naukowa-z-cyklu-idee-muzyki-ideologie-w-muzyce-pt-idee-kompozytorskie-versus-sztuka-interpretacji,2151 

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It must have taken a lot of work for the unusual married duo of soprano and violist - Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk and Szymon Kruk - to find a suitable repertoire. It turns out, however, that in the 20th century, and then at the beginning of this century, composers created works for soprano and viola voices often enough for the artists to record the album Impressions (2022) together, without even having to rely on musical transcriptions. We will hear these works at the NFM on April 18, 2024 at 7 p.m.

The duo's concert at the National Forum of Music will open with the lullaby Gute Nacht by Paul Hindemith, which is the ending of the cantata titled Serenaden. The concert will close with Two Impressions - compositions dedicated to a married duet by the artist Leszek Wisłocki from Wrocław. They contain references to the folklore of Podhale, which has fascinated the creator since his youth.

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More: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10225https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/10225 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On April 17-18, 2024 Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz will host the International Scientific Conference "Humanists, savants, explorers. Researchers of music culture." The proceedings will be broadcast on the YT channel of the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music.

The activities of both musicologists, music theorists, ethnomusicologists, and music sociologists will be discussed, whose knowledge and experience allowed them to conduct extensive research projects, as well as enthusiasts whose undying passion contributed to perpetuating certain cultural facts and interpreting them from a different perspective.

Detailed programme: https://www.amuz.bydgoszcz.pl/wydarzenia/humanisci-erudyci-odkrywcy-miedzynarodowa-konferencja-naukowa/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Hashtag Lab invites artists to co-create a series of improvised music concerts "f.i.m.m." On the 13^th of April, 2024 at 8 p.m., Rafał Mazur (bass guitar) and Dominik Strycharski (flutes) will present their improvisations as part of the series.

Ticket information: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/f-i-m-m-mazur-strycharski/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Zielona Góra Philharmonic festival "Classics Without Borders" will last until the 31^st of May, 2024. The inauguration of this year's edition will take place on the 12^th of April at 7 p.m.

Famous soloists - Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Kotliński (bass-baritone) and Tymoteusz Bies (piano) - as well as the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra will perform under the direction of Rafał Kłoczko, director of the institution. The culmination of the evening will be the performance of Piano Concerto by the Institution's Patron. The Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms and the songs Des Knaben Wunderhorn ("The Boy's Wonderful Horn") for voice and orchestra will take us to a completely different mood.

The Philharmonic does not provide information about the programme of the Festival in May.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Philharmonic website: https://filharmoniazg.pl/