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This year, the Warsaw Stage Society organizes a winter vocal course in Jarosław. The initiator and artistic director of the course is Dr. hab. Jolanta Janucik, professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

Prof. dr hab. will also lead his singing class. Robert Cieśla (UMFC).

Classes will take place in the Jarosław Abbey and in the Mirror Hall of the Center for Promotion and Culture in Jarosław, which is a partner of the event.

Detailed information about the courses is available on the event website:

http://kursjaroslaw.org

We also invite you to Jarosław itself – a beautiful Podkarpackie city with rich, multicultural traditions!

This year, as WTS, we are involved in the project of creating a concert-performance inspired by the life, thought and activity of St. John the Baptist. Catherine of Siena.

In order to implement this unique project, an international group of musicians-actors was established under the leadership of Julianna Bloodgood. The authors of the multilingual text of the work are Danielle Blackbird – a researcher of medieval culture and playwright and Julianna Bloodgood – actress, singer and dancer, Polish resident since 2009. The premiere of the work will take place on March 8, followed by presentations in Italy (Siena, or. Rome and Sant’Antimo) .

The concert-performance “Little thunder” is the result of field research in Italy, aimed at reaching authentic sources of knowledge about the context of St. Catherine’s life. The authors managed to reach not only many organizations associated with the figure of St. Catherine and the impressive library collections of the Academia Chigiana in Siena, covering many source musical materials from the fourteenth century, but also literature on the musical life of Siena at that time.

However, in order for the performance to be as deep as possible in its expression, we would like to use it – that is, buy or rent several instruments (bells, psaltery, duduk, drums). We would also like to invite you to Brzezinka, where we will spend the whole of February, invite a real master of playing traditional drums (frame drumes) to the workshop. We believe that this will add a completely different quality to our work.

Unfortunately, the grants obtained so far are not enough for this purpose. You can help us by adding a penny to the collection, we cordially invite you and thank you in advance!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/instruments-for-little-thunder-a-performance?fbclid=IwAR2NUPvHwnQJz_R4G5ync4He7BwnDOGCf7YbBjdbjIiIU8kPgiCQfWW9uDE#/

On February 26, on the youtube platform and Facebook of the POLIN Museum, the premiere of a special concert filled with music by the excellent Polish-Jewish-Russian composer Mieczysław Wajberg will take place. The Warsaw Stage Society is a partner of this event.

We are very happy to support the newly established Institute of Them. Mieczysław Weinberg – founded on the initiative of outstanding artists – violinist Maria Sławek and flutist Ania Karpowicz, and editor and translator Aleksander Laskowski.

This first “institute” concert will take place exactly on the 25th anniversary of the composer’s death, and the performers will be:

Maria Sławek – violin

Ewa Leszczyńska – soprano

Misha Kozłowski – piano

Marcin Zdunik – cello

We invite you to read more information on the POLIN Museum website:

https://polin.pl/pl/wydarzenie/polin-music-festival-mieczyslaw-wajnberg-jidisze-lider

We would like to congratulate Ania Karpowicz – an excellent artist, flutist, curator, initiator of musical ventures – on receiving the Polityka’s Passport in the Music category!

In November, we witnessed and co-produced one of Ania’s last premieres – Zofia Dowgiałło-Zych’s piece for flute and electronics, performed during the Audio Art Festival in Krakow.

We are happy and wish this Passport to open all borders!

https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kultura/paszporty/2100303,1,muzyka-powazna-ania-karpowicz-laureatka-paszportow-polityki.read

Who did not visit this year in the concert pavilion at 272 Grochowska Street in Warsaw’s Praga district for concerts organized by Sinfonia Varsovia? There is an opportunity to make up for it!

“Sinfonia Varsovia to your city” is one of our favorite summer festivals. It was initiated in 2001 by the then director of the Orchestra – then still homeless, circulating between the best concert halls, and the hall of the Railway Technical School, where everyday work took place…

The festival was to be a gift of the orchestra for the inhabitants of Warsaw, a celebration of music in its various forms. The initiative has become a permanent part of the cultural capital and for several years Sinfonia Varsovia has been inviting us to its own Prague thresholds.

In 2020, the traditional cycles of chamber and orchestral concerts, as well as family mornings were joined by an unusual series close to our hearts: Experimental Tuesdays. m.in appeared on the stage. Ensemble Garage, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble or Paweł Romańczuk’s Małe Instrumenty ensemble.

We invite you to return to one of the August evenings and the concert, during which the premiere of “Sea of Prism” written by Rafał Ryterski for hashtag Ensemble sounded. The Warsaw Stage Society was a partner of the event – we are proud of it and extremely grateful!

Soprano Joanna Freszel, contemporary music ensemble Hashtag Ensemble, director Pia Partum and video artist Aleksandra Ołdak joined forces in the preparation of an unusual video-clip or video-opera to the music of Salvatore Sciarrino.

Already on October 30, at 22:15 on the Hashtag Ensemble youtube channel and Facebook channels: ours and the Hashtag Ensemble team you will be able to watch the effect of this extraordinary cooperation.

Although the music recordings took place already in July, the work lasted until the end of October. Editing and mastering of the sound material (Michał Bereza), then recordings of the visual layer and its final editing took place made our autumn, although pandemic, unusual and busy!

Salvatore Sciarrino’s music has been a field of cooperation between conductor Lilianna Krych and director Pia Partum for several years – its ethereality, extremely precise form and sophistication inspired both artists to realize the m.in opera “Luci mie traditrici” during the Warsaw Autumn Festival 2016 and New Opera Days Ostrava 2018.

We are looking forward to the reaction of the audience and – although online – we are counting on a warm reception!

Friday, October 30, 2020 – Hashtag Ensemble youtube channel – online premiere – Salvatore Sciarrino – Aspern Suite

This Saturday, September 19 at 7:00 p.m. in the theatre hall of the Bakery there will be a long-awaited world premiere of the contemporary opera by the Japanese composer Keiko Fujie entitled “The Japanese composer Keiko Fujie”. “Vermilion Calm” A unique opera combining contemporary European theatrical thinking with traditional Japanese theatre.

The partner of the event is the Institute of Im. Jerzy Grotowski in Wrocław. Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the “Music” program implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance. The honorary patronage is held by the Embassy of Japan in Poland.

Saturday – September 19, 2020 – 19:00 – Bakery – Centre for Performing Arts (ul. Prince Vytautas 62-70) – Wrocław. Next performances: 20 and 21 September 2020.