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A meeting devoted to the latest publications (books, sheet music, CDs) of the Chopin University Press related to the music of contemporary Polish composers will take place on 25 September 2019 at 4 p.m. at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music as an fringe event of the 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn".

The meeting will be hosted by Beata Stylińska from Programme 2 of Polish Radio and will  feature music theorists, composers and performers associated with the Warsaw University of Music, including: Miłosz Bembinow, Wojciech Błażejczyk, Aleksander Kościów, Leszek Lorent, Paweł Łukaszewski, Tomasz Opałka, and Ignacy Zalewski. The discussion will be accompanied by the presentation of different publications, which will be available to purchase during the meeting. Moreover, there will be a display of the objectophones – original instruments dsigned by Wojciech Błażejczyk, which will finally be made available to the public for testing.

Chopin University Press is an academic publishing house presenting the achievements of the Chopin University of Music and the results of academic research and artistic projects in the form of monographs, collective works, thematic series, textbooks, as well as sheet music and phonograms (CDs and DVDs). Priority is given to proposals dedicated to Polish works – both new and forgotten. A dozen or so titles are published annually.

Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

http://www.efryderyk.pl/ 

The 46th International Viola Congress will take place in Poznań on 24-28 September 2019, featuring lectures, meetings, workshops, master classes and concerts.

The artistic direction of this year's congress was entrusted to dr hab. Ewa Guzowska, prof. AM and dr. hab. Lech Bałaban prof. AM – leading violists associated with the Poznań music community. The event's guests will include outstanding Polish and foreign instrumentalists, including Jorge Alves, Jolanta Kukula-Kopczyńska, Diana Phoenix-Neal, Jutta Puchhammer-Sedillot, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Stefano Carlini, Paul Cortese, Dariusz Korcz, Stefan Kamas, Jerzy Kosmala, Błażej Maliszewski and Maxim Rysanov.

The inaugural concert will take place on 24 September at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Mieczysław Karłowicz State Music School Complex in Poznań, featuring Ukrainian violist Maxim Rysanow as well as Jan Bałaban, Lech Bałaban and Krzysztof Sowiński. The program will include works by Dymitr Szostakowicz, Philipp Scharwenka, Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Piotr Komorowski and Sławomir Czarnecki.

Viola concertos by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Antonín Vranicki, Marek Stachowski and Grażyna Bacewicz will fill the Concert Hall of the Moniuszko Grand Theatre on Wednesday, 25 September at 7 p.m. Ewa Guzowska, Jerzy Kosmala, Stefan Kosmala-Bahlbeck, Paweł Riess and Tomasz Rosiński will perform with the Orchestra of the Grand Theater in Poznań under the direction of Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak.

On 26 September at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Mieczysław Karłowicz State Music School Complex in Poznań, we will listen to, among others, Letters from Warsaw by British composer Joseph Phibbs – a work commissioned by Krzysztof Chorzelski, inspired by his grandmother's correspondence from the Warsaw Ghetto. The programme of the next two concerts will include the latest works by Łódź composers, as well as less known compositions from the Baroque repertoire and works by English composers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

More information at: http://www.ptal.art.pl/ 

The first edition of the International Józef Madeja Festival will be held on 6-9 October 2019 in Greater Poland, featuring concerts, lectures, master classes and meetings with exceptional artists from Poland and abroad.

The festival’s patron is Józef Madeja – clarinettist, outstanding professor of the Music Academy in Poznań, distinguished organizer of the musical life of Greater Poland. As part of honoring Madeja’s activities, the Józef Madeja Association has created a festival that will not only maintain the memory of this musician and composer, but also influence the development of culture in Greater Poland. The most important goal of the Festival is to present the most outstanding achievements of Polish music literature and commemorate the important anniversaries of the music world.

The guest of the first edition of the event will be the world-famous Ukrainian clarinettist Volodymyr Dobrynchuk, who will inaugurate the festival with a recital at the Jankowice Palace on 6 October at 3 p.m. The concert will also feature Paweł Kroczek (clarinet), Hanna Lizinkiewicz (piano) and the Festival Clarinet Orchestra, composed of students of the Local Government Music School in Tarnowo Podgórne and students of the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań conducted by prof. Zdzisław Nowak.

The other two concerts of the Festival – on 7 October at 5 p.m. at the Wacław of Szamotuły State Primary Music School in Szamotuły and on 9 October at 6 p.m. at the Stanisław Moniuszko State Primary Music School in Zbąszyń – will feature outstanding artists associated with Greater Poland, active in the country and abroad: Piotr Kosarga (violin), Jan Czaja (cello), Paweł Kroczek (clarinet), Julian Paprocki (clarinet), Maria Bielewicz (cello), Kamil Grandmother (viola), Barbara Tritt (soprano), Marcin Sikorski (piano), Hanna Lizinkiewicz (piano), Piotr Pawlik (electronics). Besides the compositions of the festival's patron, we will listen to woks by such composers as Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Fryderyk Chopin, Witold Lutosławski, Jan Adam Maklakiewicz and Andrzej Panufnik. The final concert will also feature the premiere of Piotr Pawlik's work.

Admission to all concerts is free!

Media patronage: Polish Msuci Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://festiwalmadei.pl/en/

The guest of the next meeting of the "Vivat Academia" series, which will take place on Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 6 p.m. in the Archdiocese Museum in Katowice, will be Prof. Leon Markiewicz – outstanding musicologist, pedagogue and publicist. The meeting and the accompanying concert will be hosted by Grażyna Brewińska.

The Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music "Silesia" joined the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, which is the oldest academic institution in Upper Silesia. Once again, the organizers invite music lovers to a meeting held as part of the "Vivat Academia!" series, which gives the opportunity to meet the rectors of the Katowice Academy of Music.

In 1949–55, Professor Leon Markiewicz studied pedagogy and theory of music at the PWSM in Katowice – today's Academy of Music, becoming its rector in 1979–81. He has also been the head of the Music Theory Department and the head of the Music Education Department. For many years he was a lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa. He was the director and secretary of the jury of the International Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Conductors in Katowice. The impressive achievements of Prof. Markiewicz covers around 140 publications, and nearly 300 reviews that appeared in the music and daily press. His research interests are focused on music analysis, Silesian music culture, all aspects of music pedagogy, and the popularization of music.

As always, the meeting led by Grażyna Brewińska will be accompanied by music. We will listen to the works by Manuel de Falla, Maurice Ravel, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg in the interpretations of graduates and current lecturers of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music – violinist Adam Mokrus and pianist Katarzyna Makowska.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://www.silesia.art.pl/