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Donaueschingen | Premiere of the new work by Lidia Zielińska

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The world premiere Lidia Zielińska's Klangor for orchestra will take place on Sunday, 20 October 2019, during the final concert of the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival.

The new work by Lidia Zielińska was commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival and the SWR2 radio in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The world premiere will be made by SWR Symphonieorchester under the direction of Tito Ceccherini. The programme of the final concert of the Donaueschinger Musiktage festival will also include three other world premieres: Melancholy for chromatic harmonica and orchestra by Saed Haddad, Elemental Realities for orchestra by Jürg Frey, and WÄCHTER for bass flute and pipes orchestra by Eva Reiter.

New music can be a place of retreat and contemplation. The world premieres of the final concert each seek and assert their own place, be it melancholy as an expression of woefulness in the new work by the Jordanian composer Saed Haddad, be it in Eva Reiter’s sound experiment, in which the musicians dispose of their instruments, in search of a pover music. With Lidia Zielińska, the orchestra becomes a gloomy echo chamber that picks up and unfolds a sound of nature.

The concert will be broadcast live at: https://www.swr.de/swrclassic/.

More information at https://www.swr.de/

Warsaw | 2nd International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe "Eufonie"

Eufonie

The 2nd edition of the International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe "Eufonie" will take place in Warsaw on 15-23 November 2019, featuring 640 artists from 20 countries, 15 concerts, 8 orchestras, 3 world premiers and 7 Polish premiers.

"Eufonie" is a music festival, referring to the tradition of the regional community of most countries today referred to as Central and Eastern Europe, stretching from the Balkans, through Romania and Austria, the Visegrad Group countries, the Ukraine and Belarus, to the Baltic countries, sometimes extended to Scandinavia. This area is a fascinating melting pot of influences from the East and the West, boiling with cultural energy which often determined the identity of nations deprived of their own countries. The Festival present music of different eras and styles. This year's programme offer is richer and more diverse compared to the first edition. The repertoire is expanded to include ethnic and early music, as well as theater and dance performances.

In addition to the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, the festival will feature the international I, CULTURE Orchestra, which brings together musicians from the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Not only recognized artists from our region will appear on the festival stages, but also soloists and ensembles from other parts of the world, including United States, Great Britain, Luxembourg or Spain. The programme presented this year will allow the audience not only to become more familiar with the repertoire and musical performance of our neighbors, but also countries not yet presented at the Festival: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova.

An important part of this year's "Eufonie" are works commissioned by the National Center for Culture, which will have their premieres during the Festival: Song of Death – a unique spectacle with the participation of Jan Frycz and Adam Strug based on the text of Master Polycarp’s Dialogue with Death found by prof. Wiesław Wydra, and Incantations performance created by the electronic music composer Aleksandra Bilińska, singer Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska and choreographer Jacek Przybyłowicz..

The festival is organized by the National Center for Culture thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The Polish Composers' Union is the festival's partner. The president of the Polish Composers' Union and the director of POLMIC Mieczysław Kominek is the chairman of the programme board.

More information at: https://nck.pl/projekty-kulturalne/projekty/festiwal-eufonie/ 

Opole | Zone of Stars: Maestro Antoni Wit

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Maestro Antoni Wit returns to the Opole Philharmonic on 25 October 2019 at 7 p.m. with a programme composed of French orchestral music as part of the "Zone of Stars" series.

The works by French composers, arranged in chronological order, represent diverse styles. Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre is a short and spectacular symphonic poem. Gabriel Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande suite, which consists of the incidental music for a play by Mauric Maeterlinck, has a completely different character. The work written by the Nobel Prize winner in literature of 1911 tells a story of a beautiful girl immersed in incurable melancholy. The Fauré score is also beautiful but at the same time sad and foggy. Albert Roussel's Bacchus et Ariane is ballet music based on a story rooted in mythology, which makes it somewhat crazy, and sometimes even ... noisy.

The concert is directed at several groups of listeners: frankophiles, who are truly fascinated by the land of wine and cheese and want to get to know French music better; music lovers – maestro Antoni Wit is a legend of the Polish music scene and his concert is a must see; and theater and literature lovers who will have the opportunity to listen to music composed for dramatic use.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Cemntre POLMIC.

More information at: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/68-sezon-artystyczny-antoni-wit/ 

"Tell me a story" – Free Improvisation Workshops for Children

PTWM

The workshops for children, during which the youngest participants will learn, play and improvise in the company of great musicians and unusual books, will be held on 25 and 26 October 2019 in three Greater Poland towns: Skoki, Wągrowiec and Krajenka.

Polish Society for Contemporary Music invites children aged 3-5 and 6-8 years old to participate in free improvisation classes together with their guardians. The musical guests of the upcoming workshops will be: Marcin Skaba (violin), Bartosz Smorągiewicz (saxophone) and Jarosław Siwiński (synthesizer). Adventure through improvisation with artists will be led by actor and director Grzegorz Ociepka.

The main idea of ​​the project is to trigger graphic-inspired improvisations. Children will create their own stories based on picture books. The improvised fairy tales will be then "translated" into musical language under the guidance of the class leaders. Improvisation is the most basic, primary and joyful form of music performance, which is why the workshops combine children's creativity and imagination with books and contemporary music.In addition to playing with improvisations and books, children will learn various techniques of sound extraction, which expose its color and dynamic values, and will also be able to play drums on their own.

Participation in the workshops is free – the number of places is limited.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://www.facebook.com/events/795964717504932/ and https://www.facebook.com/events/638156259924325/ 

Bydgoszcz | Captivated by the Tatras – Inauguration of the 2019/2020 season of the Pomeranian Philharmonic

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The inauguration of the 2019/2020 season of the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz will take place on 25 October 2019 at 7 p.m.. The Pomeranian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kai Bumann and accompanied by the violinist Sławomira Wilga will perform works by Mendelssohn, Karłowicz and Kilar.

Karłowicz and Kilar undoubtedly had one thing in common – adoration for the Polish mountains. Karłowicz, one of the greatest Polish composers and the best climbers of his time, a wonderful photographer, was taken forever by the beloved Tatra Mountains ... He died while climbing Mały Kościelec on 8 February 1909. He wrote the orchestral triptych Eternal songs in 1907. The work is perceived as the "manifestation of the composer's pantheistic credo, musical expression of his philosophy, the apotheosis of Nature-Universe." Kilar also loved mountains in the whole sense of this word. He was fascinated with and inspired by their unique folklore and highland melodies. In 1976 – on the centenary of Karłowicz's birthday – he composed the poem Kościelec 1909, which is a kind of epitaph that captures the last moments of Karłowicz's life.

The evening will start with a great hit of concert halls – Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, known for its beautiful melodies imbued with sweetness, "in which the violin sings about fulfillment of all longings and love." The soloist will be 25-year-old Sławomira Wilga – a graduate of the Academy of Music in Łódź in the class of Prof. Łukasz Błaszczyk, laureate of Polish and international violin and chamber competitions, cooperating with the International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra, the Primuz String Orchestra, the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra and Uncover Soloist.

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

More information at: http://www.filharmonia.bydgoszcz.pl/

Warsaw | 11th "Schaeffer's Era" Festival

Era Schaeffera

The 11th "Schaeffer's Era" Festival will take place on 24 October 2019 at 8 p.m. in the Artistic Pool (Basen Artystyczny) in Warsaw (6 M. Konopnicka St.).

The "Schaeffer's Era" Festival is a cyclical event that combines music, theater and dance and promotes the rich creative output of the Polish contemporary composer, music theoretician, playwright, philosopher and graphic artist Bogusław Schaeffer. The Festival takes place in the autumn season in Warsaw, regularly since 2009. It is a multimedia and audiovisual event inspired by sound, word, movement, and image, which uses a collage technique.

11th "Schaeffer's Era" combines presentation of works by Bogusław Schaeffer with the celebration of his 90th birthday. The professor died less than a month after his 90th birthday, so this year's Festival will also be a symbolic farewell to the Master. A multimedia spectacle The Eternal Carousel directed by Maciej Sobociński combines performances by Polish and foreign stage artists with a display of Schaeffer's graphic works as well as fragments of his musical works in the interpretation and arrangement of young Polish musicians. Among hte performers there will be actors Lidia Bogaczówna, Izabela Warykiewicz, Sean Palmer, Marcel Wiercichowski, accordionist and composer Marcin Wyrostek with the band Corazone, singer Janusz Radek, rapper Andy Ninvalle, violinist and composer Patryk Zakrocki, pianist Maciej Piszek and composer and pianist Andrzej Karałow.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://aureaporta.eu 

Wrocław | Bagatelles and Premieres

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The LutosAir Quintet, one of the most active wind ensembles performing contemporary music, will premiere three works by Polish composers at the chamber music concert on 24 October 2019 at 7 p.m. at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław.

The Thursday concert will begin with the performance of Six Bagatelles for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, who went down in history as a great avant-garde artist. The Bagatelles are his early work, written in 1953, before leaving his homeland, and the musical language used in it is easier on the ear than his later compositions. They are arrangements of another of his compositions, the Musica ricercata for piano. The title of the fifth one, Béla Bartók in memoriam, points to an important source of inspiration for Ligeti during this period. Despite the fact that these miniatures are graceful and accessible, the Soviet censorship decided that the last Bagatelle was too radical and did not allow it to be performed during the premiere of the work in 1956.

Other works in the programme were written by contemporary Polish composers. The Wrocław audience will also have an opportunity to listen to the world premieres of the Brass Sextet by the Wrocław composer Ewa Podgórska, Dr JanKeys by the violist and composer Dawid Pajdzik and the Concert Suite for bass clarinet and wind quintet by Nikola Kołodziejczyk. The commission of the latter work was subsidised from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – Culture Promotion Fund as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme realised by the Institute of Music and Dance.

More information at: https://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/component/nfmcalendar/event/7269 

Warsaw | SuperSam +1: Marta Zapparoli & Piotr Zabrodzki

SuperSamMarta Zapparoli and Piotr Zabrodzki will perform at the next concert of the cycle "SuperSam +1", which will take place on 24 October 2019 at 8 p.m. in the Warsaw club "DZIK" (44a Belwederska St.).

“Supersam + 1” is a series of master performances. The project focuses mainly on music, however, it also includes other forms of expression such as: performance, multimedia, monodrama. “SUPERSAM + 1” will present respected Polish and foreign artists whose work is original, experimental and innovative.

Marta Zapparoli is an experimental sound artist, radio artist, improviser, performer, and self-taught researcher. She has been working and living in Berlin since 2007. In the past fourteen years her sonic work has focused on recorded sound from the external world using a wide array of devices, microphones, sensors, ultrasonic, digital and analogue recorders. In the past four years she has also included antennas, radio receivers, and detectors. She works without boundaries and with many unconventional techniques. Her influences and interest is the sonic environment, acoustic ecology, cosmic energies, electro-smog (radio waves communication, EMF), Natural Radio VLF (electromagnetic signal emissions which originate from natural phenomena, weather, lighting, borealis aurora and more) and they relations and effects on human senses and body. With all the recordings she has captured around the world, she builds highly narrative and visionary soundscapes. Through live performances the sound material is transformed and placed into other contexts, consequently changing its original character by creating a distinct aurality into another universe of sound. She aims to stimulate critical thinking, awareness, memories and auditory imagination of the audience.

Piotr Zabrodzki is a pianists and a composer. He graduated from the Music Academy in Warsaw. His music combines jazz improvisation with sonorism, heavy metal and electronics and all of that is topped with a good sense of humour. As a musician he is very flexible and versatile, which is reflected in the number of bands he is a member of: LXMP, Efekt Moozgu, Trylobit, 60 Minut Projekt, The Kurws, Blast Muzungu, SEMAFOR COMBO. He worked with leading avant-garde musicians such as Yoshida Tatsuya, Zdzisław Piernik, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Ove Volquartz, Tabata Mitsuru.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://supersam.mozg.pl/

Kraków | 6th Krakow Musical Autumn

Krakowska Jesień Muzyczna

For the sixth time the "Porta Musicae" Artistic Association together with the Karol Szymanowski Krakow Philharmonic invite you to participate in the Krakow Musical Autumn. This year, the organizers are offering you a series of five concerts on 20-24 October 2019, and an accompanying concert on 28 October 2019. Festival concerts will take place in the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow.

The programme of this year's edition of the festival, as in previous years, involves the presentation of works by Polish and foreign composers, contemporary works and those belonging to the classics of the repertoire intended for chamber instrumental ensembles. This year, the invitation to perform the inaugural concert was accepted by the well-known and appreciated both by the audience and critics – the Lutosławski Quartet, who will present the works of Stanisław Moniuszko, Witold Lutosławski and Dymitr Szostakowicz.

On the second day of the festival, a duet that had never been before at the Krakow Musical Autumn, i.e. flutist Ania Karpowicz and pianist Marek Bracha, will present works by Mieczysław Weinberg, Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern and Aaron Copland. The third day will feature a concert for four hands: Piotr Różański and Grzegorz Mania will sit at one piano and present works of Antonin Dvořák, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Emil Wojtacki, Władysław Żeleński and Johannes Brahms.The first premiere will take place on day four: violinist Volodja Balzarolsky and pianist Peter Caelen will perform for the first time in Poland For Fred by American composer Aaron Alter. The programme will also include works by Leoš Janáček, Antonin Dvořák, Ludomir Różycki and Johannes Brahms.

At the end of this year's edition of the Festival, soprano Joanna Freszel and pianist Bartłomiej Kominek will present a selection of songs by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko, Sergei Rachmaninov, Karol Szymanowski, Grażyna Bacewicz, Alberto Ginastera and Sławomir Zamuszko. During this concert, the artists will also perform the world premiere of Marta Ptaszyńska's Conversation with an Angel, commissioned and written especially for the sixth edition of the Krakow Musical Autumn as part of the "Composing Commissions" programme of the Institute of Music and Dance.

Full programme available at: http://kjm.festiwalmuzyczny.com/ 

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