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Katowice | The Youth's Wednesday: Violinofonica

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On February 13, 2019 at 7:30 p.m., the violin quartet Violinofonica will perform at the headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice as part of the concert series "The Youth's Wednesday".

Violinofnica Violin Quartet was founded in January 2017 by violinist Agnieszka Marucha, along with the most talented students of her class at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. The ensemble aims to promote a rare repertoire for 4 violins and to help young violin players to gain stage experience. In the artistic season of 2018/2019, the quartet performed at the Ryszard Kapuściński awards ceremony in Warsaw, the Music Salon in Suwałki and the Korean Institute in Warsaw. In July 2018, the quartet debuted abroad during the Bosa Antica Festival in Italy.

The ensemble performs a wide repertoire (from baroque to the latest music), however its core is Polish music, including specifically commissioned works. Among them we will find Silesian Melodies by Weronika Olbrot and Migotanie by Iwona Kisiel, both composed in 2018. These works, which will be performed on February 13 in Katowice, had their world premiere in Italy during the 11th International Festival of Chamber Music of Bosa Antica. In addition, in the band's interpretation, we will listen to Duets on folk themes for two violins and Quartet for four violins by Grażyna Bacewicz, Four Silesian melodies by Witold Lutosławski and works by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Georg Friedrich Telemann and Jacob Dont.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/pl/koncerty/1363/sroda-modych-kwartet-skrzypcowy-violinofonica 

Lublin | Love in the Carnival

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Is it possible to combine the carnival celebrations with the upcoming St. Valentine's Day? If you are willing to find out, we recommend a visit to the Lublin Philharmonic on February 10, 2019 at 5.00 p.m.

During the concert, the Chamber Choir of the Lublin Philharmonic under the direction of Dawid Jarząba will perform a set of works related to different shades of love. The programme will include compositions of J. Rutter, G. Turner, C. Velázquez, A. Ledesm, B. Chilcott, J. Fisher, F. Bridge, as well as compositions by Polish artists: Stanisław Wiechowicz, Karol Mieczysław Prosnak and Jan Maklakiewicz.

More information at: http://filharmonialubelska.pl/pl,0,s257,d489,milosc_w_karnawale.html 

Katowice | Weinberg in Poland

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A concert on February 9, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.in the headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice will feature chamber music works of Mieczysław Wajnberg and Grażyna Bacewicz in the interpretation of the Silesian Quartet and the pianist Wojciech Świtała.

String Quartet No. 12, Op. 103 (1969/1970) is one of the experimental works of Mieczysław Wajnberg, filled with despair, drama and irony. It includes elements of serial music of the Second Viennese School of Arnold Schönberg, banned by Soviet ideologists, and allusions to Bela Bartók's string quartets. Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952) is one of the most frequently performed works of Grażyna Bacewicz. This popularity is due to the beauty of the themes, the charming game of contrasts, and the phantasmagoric "thoughts" (the idiom of the so-called "night music" by Bartók). 

Information on tickets at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/pl/koncerty/1402/kwartet-slaski-wojciech-switaa-wajnberg-w-polsce 

Warsaw | Chamber music for saxophone and piano: After All

UMFC

A concert at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music on February 27, 2019 at 7.00 p.m. will announce a new album by Andrzej Karałow and Pablo Sánchez-Escariche Gascha entitled After all.

After all is a debut album of musicians who engage in solo, chamber, orchestral and experimental activities on a daily basis. They have been performing in a duet since 2016, playing classical and contemporary music – including works dedicated to the duo, among others, by Australian composers: Kirsten Milenko and Harry Sdraulig. The title piece After All was dedicated to the performers by the composer Żaneta Rydzewska.

The presence of some pieces on the CD with music for saxophone and piano may seem predictable. The performers believe, however, that the combination of the selected works creates a specific exhibition of how the contemporary composer's ideas relate to or confronts the music of a bygone era. After all is a personal perspective on the compositions of the 20th and 21st centuries and their past interpretations: starting from music written at the beginning of the 20th century, transcribed specifically for our needs (Paul Hindemith and Karol Szymanowski), through the already classical, virtuoso Sonata by William Albright, ending with the works of young composers (Żaneta Rydzewska, or Andrzej Karałow).

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Kraków | "Polish Music Experience"

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A concert promoting the new album of Cracow Duo and Sinfonietta Cracovia with Polish contemporary music, recorded under the baton of Jurek Dybał for the prestigious Warner Classics label, will take place on February 10, 2019 at 7.00 p.m. in the concert hall of the Manggha Museum in Kraków.

The "Polish Music Experience" album is a selection of the most interesting compositions from the repository of Polish contemporary music performed by Krakow virtuosi specializing in interpretations of contemporary music: Cracow Duo duet (Jan Kalinowski ‒ cello, Marek Szlezer ‒ piano) and Sinfonietta Cracovia under the baton of Jurek Dybał. The CD contains works by the most outstanding Polish artists of the past and present century: Krzysztof Penderecki, Wojciech Kilar and Krzysztof Meyer, as well as the composition of one of the most talented and most awarded Polish composers of the young generation: Tomasz Opałka.

On February 10, Cracow Duo and Sinfonietta Cracovia will perform, among others, energetic and color-diverse composition Hemisphere2 by Tomasz Opałka in the new version dedicated by the composer to the performers, and virtuoso Musica concertante for cello, piano, string orchestra and percussion by Krzysztof Meyer. The repertoire of the concert will also include Concerto for string orchestra by Grażyna Bacewicz ‒ composer's opus magnum, sometimes referred to as her "Symphony No. 9," and the electrifying Double Concerto for cello, piano and string orchestra by Astor Piazzolla.

The event will inaugurate a new concert cycle of Sinfonietta Cracovia "Sinfonietta po krakowsku", in which the most talented Cracovian soloists will take part.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: www.sinfonietta.pl 

Composer Zbigniew Penherski has died at 84

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Zbigniew Penherski, a member of the Polish Composers' Union since 1959, passed away on February 4, 2019.

Zbigniew Penherski was a student of Stefan Bolesław Poradowski, Tadeusz Szeligowski and Bohdan Wodiczko. As a scholarship holder of the Dutch Government, he also studied at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht. His music was performed in Poland and abroad, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Korea, Mexico, Germany, Norway, the United States, Great Britain, Italy, and the former Soviet Union. His works were recommended by the International Composers' Tribune in Paris (2001).

He was a member of the Association of Authors ZAIKS, Polish Contemporary Music Association, Warsaw Musical Society, honorary member of the Scottish Composers' Union (1987) and honorary citizen of cities: Kragujevac in Serbia, Russe in Bulgaria and Ho-Chi-Minh in Vietnam.

Zbigniew Penherski received a Silver Cross of Merit and the Award of the Prime Minister of Poland for works for children and youth, as well as the Annual Award of the Polish Composers' Union for outstanding compositional creativity and artistic independence.

Warsaw | Concert of the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music's Chamber String Orchestra

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On February 11, 2019 at 7.00 p.m., the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw will host a concert of the Chamber String Orchestra of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań under the direction of Marcin Suszycki.

The programme of the concert will include works of Polish composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as Romanian folk dances BB 68, Sz. 56 by Béla Bartók. The evening will start with Poznań Poem, commissioned by the Poznań ensemble from Alina Kubik, a composer associated with the Wrocław Academy of Music. Concerto for accordion and string orchestra by Marcin Błażewicz will be performed by the Rector of FCUM Klaudiusz Baran, to whom the work was dedicated in 2012. The concert will end with Serenade for strings by Mieczysław Karłowicz, written during the composer's stay in Berlin in 1897 and inspired by Robert Volksmann's popular string serenades.

Free tickets available two weeks prior the concert at the University's main hall from Monday to Wednesday and on Friday from 4.00 to 7.00 p.m.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Zakopane | Karłowicz in Memoriam

Akademia Beethovenowska

Mieczysław Karłowicz's symphonic works will be performed by the legendary violinist Konstanty Andrzej Kulka and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra conducted by Monika Stefaniak on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the death of the composer. The concert will take place on February 8, 2019 at 8.00 p.m. in the Church of the Holy Cross in Zakopane.

A publicist and author of excellent Tatra photos, a skiing enthusiast, a pioneer of mountaineering and one of the initiators of the establishment of the Tatra Volunteer Rescue Service, and above all, the author of great symphonic compositions and poems. The tragic fate, however, shattered the chances of further development of Mieczysław Karłowicz's career. His love for the mountains caused him a premature death under an avalanche on the slopes of Little Kościelec.

Exactly on the 110th anniversary of Karłowicz's death, artists will pay homage to this outstanding Polish artist. The programme of the gala concert will be opened by an emotional and poetic reflection on the human fate. "The White Dove" Symphonic Prologue, composed to the dramatic poem of the now forgotten writer Józefat Nowiński. In the interpretation of the brilliant Violin Concerto in A major, one of the most interesting works of this genre, we will admire the legend of Polish violin music – Konstanty Andrzej Kulka. The evening will be closed by the famous symphonic poem Eternal Songs. The Beethoven Academy Orchestra will perform under the baton of Monika Stefaniak – a student of such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Helmuth Rilling and Jerzy Salwarowski.

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Opole | In memory of Mieczysław Karłowicz

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On February 8, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., the Józef Elsner Opole Philharmonic will host a concert commemorating the 110th anniversary of Mieczysław Karłowicz's death.

The concert will start with a symphonic poem Kościelec 1909 by Wojciech Kilar. The title of the work refers directly to the circumstances of Karłowicz’s tragic death in 1909 in an avalanche on the Mały Kościelec slopes. It draws on the symphonic-poem tradition as a great Romantic symphonic form, programmatic in nature, of which the most outstanding Polish exponent was Karłowicz. The rest of the evening will be filled with Karłowicz's works: Violin Concerto in A major and Symphony "Rebirth", both written in 1902. The works will be performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Opole Philharmonic directed by Przemysław Neumann. Thanks to the courtesy of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Agata Szymczewska will perform as a soloist on a violin made by Nicolo Gagliano (1755).

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

More information at: https://filharmonia.opole.pl/wydarzenia/strefa-gwiazd-4/ 

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