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Event date: 2024-05-24

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 5^th edition of the International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music, with participation of outstanding artists from Poland and abroad, will take place in the Sanok district on 24-27 May 2024. The Festival will also discover new talents through the 4^th National Competition for Young Organists. Admission to the concerts is free.

This year's edition of the Festival will be inaugurated in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Sanok with a concert by Anna Maria Jopek, who will be accompanied by: Piotr Wojtasik (trumpet), Igor Pietraszewski (shakuhachi) and Piotr Rojek (organ). On the 25^th of May at the Sanok Franciscan Church, we will hear organist Elżbieta Karolak together with soprano Katarzyna Hołysz.

Festival website: https://www.facebook.com/FestiwalOrganowySanok 

Event date: 2024-05-23

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

During the 53^rd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Poznań Music Spring", which will be held at the Poznań Academy of Music on 23-26 May 2024, diverse and stylistically colourful contemporary music will be presented. The festival programme, organized by the Poznań Branch of the Polish Composers' Union and the Music Encounters Foundation, includes 13 world premieres. Admission to all concerts is free!

The festival will be inaugurated by a performance by the Bałaban Family Quartet with guest pianist Krzysztof Sowiński: the artists will premiere works by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Artur Kroschel, Monika Kędziora and Sławomir Czarnecki.

The concert on the 24^th of May, co-organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum, will feature Sophia Goidinger-Koch (violin) and Barbara Riccabona (cello). The "Spring of the Young" concert on the same day will be an opportunity to hear, for the first time, works by students of the composition faculty of the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań: Krystian Klej, Grzegorz Uran and Lidia Wysocka; in addition, we will see the multimedia project 'Soundpainting' performed by students of the class 'New improvisation projects - theory and creative projects', which was created under the supervision of composer Michał Janocha.

Festival website: https://2024.wiosnamuzyczna.pl/ 

Event date: 2024-05-17

Patronat medialny nad Konkursem objęło Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej POLMIC.

XXVI Międzynarodowy Kłodzki Konkurs Pianistyczny odbędzie się w dniach 17-18 maja 2024 roku w Kłodzku w dwóch formatach: stacjonarnie oraz online. Wstęp na przesłuchania i koncerty jest wolny.

O ile format stacjonarny utrzymuje dotychczasowe kategorie wiekowe, o tyle konkurs online otwiera się na pianistów bez ograniczeń wiekowych. W tegorocznej edycji weźmie udział łącznie 89 pianistów z 6 krajów: 50 stacjonarnie i 39 w konkursie online.

Przesłuchania konkursowe będą mieć miejsce w Sali Koncertowej PSM I st. im. F. Chopina w Kłodzku, natomiast Koncert Laureatów - w Kłodzkim Ośrodku Kultury. 17 maja o godz. 19:00 w Bazylice Mniejszej Nawiedzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Bardzie odbędzie się koncert specjalny towarzyszący XXVI KKP z udziałem Natalii Wrony – laureatki Grand Prix zeszłorocznego konkursu, Jaime Peñate Conde oraz Jakuba Lojka (jurorów Konkursu), a także znakomitego wrocławskiego pianisty – Gracjana Szymczaka.

Event date: 2024-05-24

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic and the Polish Music Publishing House invite students of first- and second-cycle studies in Musicology, Composition and Music Theory to participate in a review competition. Its subject is to create a review dedicated to Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa's birthday gala. The deadline for submitting applications is the 24^th of May, 2024.

The aim of the competition is:

• promotion and support of students' activities in the field of music criticism, with particular emphasis on works devoted to the performance of works by Polish composers working in the 20^th and 21^st century;
• developing the interest of students of Musicology, Composition and Music Theory in music criticism, in particular in the field of performing Polish music of the 20^th and 21^st

Rules and regulations available on the website: https://filharmonia-slaska.eu/konkurs-recenzencki/ 

Event date: 2024-05-17

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The “Muzyka źle obecna” festival - established by the Cultural Events Office of the Institute of National Remembrance - was created with the aim of bringing out the Polish artistic heritage of the difficult post-war years from the archives. We will hear works by Polish composers of the 20^th century in Wrocław, Warsaw, Poznań, Słupsk, Lublin and Olsztyn on May 17 - June 23, 2024. Admission to the concerts is free!

The event will be devoted to artists excluded and censored by the communist authorities in Poland. The organizers of the event also include in the programme "artists who decided to emigrate as an act of protest against the communist authorities, but also those trying to create unrestrained art in their homeland despite ideological difficulties."

The inauguration of this year's Festival will take place at the National Forum of Music: NFM Wrocław Philharmonic conducted by Yaroslav Szemet will perform symphonic works by emigrant composers: Andrzej Panufnik, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Karol Rathaus and Roman Palester.

Detailed programme: https://ipn.gov.pl/pl/aktualnosci/200833,Druga-edycja-festiwalu-Sztuka-Zle-Obecna-17-maja-23-czerwca.html
Festival website and ticket booking: https://sztukazleobecna.pl/