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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/ 

Martyna Zych's conductor residency at the Warmian-Masurian Feliks Nowowiejski Philharmonic in Olsztyn in the 2023/24 season is underway as part of the National Institute of Music and Dance "Conductor - resident" programme. On the 19^th of April at 7 p.m. in the Philharmonic Concert Hall, as part of the residency, there will be a concert featuring Czech and Polish music. Aleksandra Świgut, an excellent pianist and lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University, will perform as a soloist.

The artists will perform the immortal Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 by Fryderyk Chopin. Much has been written about this work - not least because it is one of the few works that our national piano poet composed for a symphony orchestra.

There will also be three dances from the opera The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana - the elegant and delicate Polka, the joyful Furiant and the lively and at the same time surprising Skočna - and the Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček, which he himself called "military".

Ticket information: https://filharmonia.olsztyn.pl/koncert/koncert-symfoniczny-45/ 

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 100^th anniversary of its foundation, the Polish Contemporary Music Society celebrates creatively and invites you to the family workshop "Tell me a fairy tale". On Starurday, the 20^th of April, 2024 at 11:00 a.m., workshop will once again take place at MAL Kłobucka 14, in cooperation with the Society for Developing Children's Activity "Szansa". The classes are dedicated to children aged 3-8 and their parents.

The workshop will be led by its creators: improvisers - composer and pianist Jarosław Siwiński and double bass player Małgorzata Kołcz - and their musical guest Marta Maślanka, an excellent multi-instrumentalist who will play the cymbal.
The class lasts approximately 90 minutes with a short break.

Participation in the workshop is free of charge - the number of places is limited, so pre-registration of participants is required. Application is possible:

via online form: https://forms.gle/GypTGQAd5oZqTtXG6 

or by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Additional information: https://ptmw.art.pl/ 

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/