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Ruda Śląska | 5th International Night of Choirs Festival

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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 5th International Night of Choirs Festival, which will take place on the 25th of May 25, 2024 in Ruda Śląska. Application deadline is the 17th 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

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Winners of the Golden Fryderyk Award 2024 announced!

Meyer ZlotyFryderyk 24The ZPAV Phonographic Academy announced the names of the winners of the 2024 Golden Fryderyk Awards. Four artists have joined the group of figures particularly distinguished for their artistic achievements. During the Gala of Popular Music and Jazz at PreZero Arena Gliwice on the 22nd of March and on the 28th of April at the Gala of Classical Music in the concert hall of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, statuettes will be awarded to:

Krzysztof Meyer - an outstanding Polish composer and pianist, called a contemporary classic, vocalist Martyna Jakubowicz, hip-hop music producer Sebastian Imbierowicz and drummer and teacher Kazimierz Jonkisz.

Details available on the website: https://fryderyki.prowly.com/294594-laureaci-zlotych-fryderykow-2024 

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Szczecin | Competition for a chamber ensemble residency as part of the 6th International Szczecin Classic Festival

KonkursSzczecinClassic 24Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

Baltic Neopolis Orchestra invites you to participate in the competition for a chamber ensemble residency as part of the 6th International Szczecin Classic Festival, which will take place on April 27 - May 3, 2024 in Szczecin. The deadline for submitting applications is the 28th of February.

Performers at a professional level may enter the Competition. The average age of a chamber ensemble cannot exceed 35.

The organizer reserves the right to select and appoint an ensemble on the basis of submitted video materials.

The obligatory piece that the ensemble will perform at its own concert will be any work by a Polish composer.

The application for the Competition should be delivered to the Organizer by e-mail or post (in the case of traditional mail, the date of the postmark is decisive)

Rules and regulations as well as application form available on the website: https://szczecinclassic.pl/festiwal/ 

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XV Konkurs Muzyki XX i XXI Wieku dla Młodych Wykonawców

Patronat medialny nad Konkursem sprawuje Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

XV Konkurs Muzyki XX i XXI Wieku dla Młodych Wykonawców 2024Polskie Towarzystwo Muzyki Współczesnej ogłasza XV Konkurs Muzyki XX i XXI Wieku dla Młodych Wykonawców. Konkurs odbędzie się jedynie pod warunkiem otrzymania dotacji z Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego. Przesłuchania konkursowe przeprowadzone zostaną wyłącznie w formie zdalnej, w dniach 13–19 października 2024 roku. Udział w Konkursie jest bezpłatny. Termin nadsyłania zgłoszeń upływa 7 października.

Konkurs jest otwarty dla solistów – instrumentalistów i wokalistów - w następujących kategoriach:

  • uczniowie szkół muzycznych II stopnia,
  • studenci uczelni muzycznych (studia licencjackie, magisterskie, doktoranckie, podyplomowe).

W konkursie mogą wziąć udział wszyscy uczący się i studiujący w Polsce (bez względu na obywatelstwo) oraz obywatele polscy uczący się i studiujący za granicą.

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List otwarty Związku Kompozytorów Polskich w sprawie budowy siedziby Polskiej Opery Królewskiej

ZKP - list w sprawie nowej siedziby Opery Królewskiej„Nie będziemy budować Polskiej Opery Królewskiej. Decyzja została podjęta i głęboko przeanalizowana ze służbami konserwatorskimi oraz z Łazienkami Królewskim, zanalizowana ekonomicznie. Jest to inwestycja na miarę potrzeb naszych czasów, my takich potrzeb nie przewidujemy” – powiedział podsekretarz stanu Andrzej Wyrobiec.

Polska Opera Królewska powstała w 2017 roku jako państwowa instytucja kultury. Od początku istnienia główną jej sceną był piękny Teatr Stanisławowski w Łazienkach Królewskich, wyremontowany wraz z całą Starą oranżerią w latach 2012-2016. Stanowi prawdziwą perełkę architektoniczną jako jeden z kilku w Europie oryginalnych XVIII-wiecznych teatrów dworskich. Spektakle operowe w takim miejscu mogą dostarczać niezwykłej satysfakcji i estetycznego przeżycia, ale są trudne do realizacji i dostępne dla niewielkiej liczby publiczności. Sala liczy 180 miejsc, kanał orkiestrowy mieści jedynie mały zespół muzyków, zaplecze praktycznie nie istnieje.

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Cracow | Premiere performance of Janusz Krzysztof Korczak's Quartet

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NowaMuzyka 24 2 24The House of Light and Sound invites you to a concert at the Potocki Palace in Cracow on the 24th of February, 2024 at 8.00 p.m. with the participation of the string quartet of the New Music Orchestra. The programme includes world premiere of the String Quartet "Effatha" by Janusz Krzysztof Korczak, financed by the Creative Scholarship of the City of Cracow; electroacoustic works by composers associated with the House of Light and Sound will also be performed. Admission is free!

The House of Light and Sound Association was founded by composers associated with the Cracow music community. Its main goal is to support original and valuable artistic initiatives in the field of electroacoustic music and audiovisual art. The most important inspiration for the creation of the association were the ideas that gave direction to the activities of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw. An important goal of the association is also to create a center for integration of creative communities, enabling cooperation and exchange of ideas between artists representing various fields of art.

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Free tickets available on the website: https://kbfbilety.krakow.pl/wydarzenia/nowa-muzyka-w-domu-swiatla-i-dzwieku 

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Gdańsk | Weinberg.Epitafium.XXVIII.: concert on the occasion of the anniversary of composer's death

Weinberg. Epitafium koncert w GdańskuMedia patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

"Weinberg.Epitafium.XVIII." is another artistic event organized by Tomasz Raff commemorating the Polish composer of Jewish origin, Mieczysław Wajnberg. The concert on the 28th anniversary of his death will take place on the 24th of February, 2024 at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. Admission to the concert is free!

This time, the event will take the form of a vocal-instrumental monographic concert, during which the first Polish performances of song cycles to words by Bazyli Żukowski (Op. 116) and Afanasija Feta (Op. 134), as well as the Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 28 and String Trio Op. 48 will take place.

Additional information: https://www.amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/weinbergepitafiumxxviii,1993 

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Katowice | Requiem Concert in the Silesian Philharmonic

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In the morning of the 24th of February, 2022, Russia committed armed aggression against Ukraine. On the eve of the second anniversary of these events, a unique concert will be held in the concert hall of the Silesian Philharmonic. On the evening of the 23rd of February at 7:00 p.m., the Silesian Philharmonic Choir and Symphony Orchestra conducted by Margaryta Grynyvetska will perform together with recognized soloists Joanna Moskowicz, Iryna Zhytynska, Nazar Tatsyshyn, Arnold Rutkowski, Oleksandr Forkushak and Remigiusz Łukomski, to show solidarity with the Ukrainian nation through music.

We will hear works by Ukrainian and Polish composers: Natalka's aria and Ostap's aria from the opera Natałka Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko, Three Wedding Songs by Myrosław Skoryk, Andriy's Prayer from the opera Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube by Semen Hułak-Artemowski, Agnus Dei from Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor will also be performed.

During the concert, there will be a collection of funds for aid for war-torn Ukraine, carried out by volunteers of the "Ukraina" Foundation.

Additional information: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/production/mozart-requiem-solidarni-z-ukraina-koval-zhytynska-tatsyshyn-shemet-chor-i-orkiestra-symfoniczna/ 

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Katowice | Premiere of 'A Body for Harnasie'

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On the 26th of February, 2024 at 8 p.m., premiere of performance A Body for Harnasie with music by Karol Szymanowski, directed by Wayne McGregor - a unique contemporary interpretation of the ballet Harnasie, will take place in NOSPR. 

A Body for Harnasie is a pioneering project combining the beauty of Szymanowski's music performed live by NOSPR with the choreography of contemporary dance icon Wayne McGregor and moving images by visual artist Ben Cullen Williams, creating an exciting music and film spectacle.

The visual layer of the project will be processed by artificial intelligence algorithms and displayed on the surface of a vibrant three-dimensional installation suspended in the NOSPR concert hall. During this world premiere, the musicians of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra will be led by Edward Gardner, principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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