The Benefit Concert „Sing for Hope” nominated for the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award
The Benefit Concert „Sing for Hope. Greatest Opera Singers for Jacek Janiszewski” nominated for the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award.
The audience vote for the winner of the “Debut of the Year” title of the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award has just begun. Simultaneously, the secret ballot of the Electoral College that will choose the winners of the three remaining categories takes place. The Benefit Concert “Sing for Hope. Greatest Opera Singers for Jacek Janiszewski” that was organised by the Mazovian Music Theatre along with the RDC Radio, on the initiative of the RDC Radio Director – Tadeusz Deszkiewicz, was nominated for the “Event of the Year” title.
The winners will be announced at a special gala held on October 1, 2016 at the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio in Warsaw. The audience may choose its favourite through online voting at www.koryfeusz.org.pl in a “vote for Debut” bookmark. The audience vote is on till September 22, 2016.
The Laureates selected by Polish music society will be awarded statuettes in four categories: Personality of the Year, Event of the Year, Honorary Award, and – for the first time – the Debut of the Year.
The program committee of the Institute of Music and Dance chose the nominees amongst the 92 candidacies in all four categories during the meeting on 16th of September 2016.
Personality of the Year
The nominees for the “Personality of the Year” title of the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award:
- Adam Bałdych – jazz violinist
- Dorota Miśkiewicz – jazz singer
- Hubert Rutkowski – pianist
- Rafał Siwek – singer
Event of the Year
The nominees for the “Event of the Year” title of the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award:
- XVII Chopin Piano Competition
- Grand Opening of National Music Forum in Wrocław
- Solidarity of Arts Jimek+ Festival
- Benefit Concert “Sing for Hope. Greatest Opera Singers for Jacek Janiszewski”
- Dariusz Przybylski opera premiere “Orphee. Tragedie lyrique en musique” in Warsaw Chamber Opera
Debut of the Year
The nominees for the “Debut of the Year” title of the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award:
- Łukasz Dyczko – saxophonist
- Karol Mossakowski – organist
- Daniel Stachuła – director and playwright
Due to the character of the Honorary Award, the laureate’s name will be announced at the Gala Awards, however, the candidacies will be voted in a vote of the Electoral College.
Vote
On 19th of September 2016 at www.koryfeusz.org.pl the audience vote for the laureate of the “Debut of the Year” title has begun. It will be on till midnight September, 22. Simultaneously, the secret ballot of the Electoral College, that will choose the winners of the three remaining categories takes place.
Present for Jan Krenz
This year’s Gala Awards is a birthday present for Jan Krenz, the first laureate of the Honorary Award of 2011, and a surprise for the second jubilee – Jan “Ptaszyna” Wróblewski. Both artist raised, in music way, many generations of Poles, not only through the amazing concerts, but also through the radio broadcasts and the unforgettable WOSPR broadcasts as well as legendary “Trzy kwadranse Jazzu” programmes.
Who will show up?
During the Gala Concert “Do przodu żyj!”, that refers to the first line of Jan “Ptaszyna” Wróblewski work “Żyj kolorowo”, we will have the opportunity to be the witnesses of the intergenerational handing over the baton -for the Polish Jazz master the following artists will give their performances: the brilliant saxophonist and debutant, the laureate of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – Łukasz Dyczko, Nikola Kołodziejczyk Orchestra will present the “Ptaszyna’s” pieces in new music arrangements of Nikola Kołodziejczyk, and the great line-up of first ladies of Polish Jazz will be enriched by Aga Zaryan performance. The concert program also includes Jan Krenz’s String Quartet performed by the Royal String Quartet.
The Gala Awards, organised by the Institute of Music and Dance along with Polish Radio Programme 2, will be hosted by Agata Kwiecińska and Marcin Majchrowski.
Broadcasts
The Gala awards ceremony will be a live broadcast on the website www.koryfeusz.org.pl and on the Polish Radio Programme 2. The transmission will start at 7.00 p. m. The awards winners will receive statuettes designed by Prof. Adam Myjak. The financial rewards were founded by ZAIKS Authors’ Association (Polish Society of Authors and Composers) and by STOART Union of Performing Artists.
Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award
The Coryphaeus of Polish Music will be presented this year for the 6th time. The recipients of the Coryphaeus of Polish Music awards are individuals, artistic groups and institutions working in the domain of Polish music diversified in terms of genre and chronology. The award operator is the Institute of Music and Dance.
The media sponsors of this year’s edition: Polish Radio, TVP Kultura, Rzeczpospolita, Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej Polmic.pl, Culture.pl, Jazz Forum, Jazzarium.pl, JazzPress and MuzykaTradycyjna.pl.
Source: /www.koryfeusz.org.pl | Author: RDC
Benefit Concert “Sing for Hope. Greatest Opera Singers for Jacek Janiszewski”
On 4th of June 2016, at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw, the Benefit Concert “Sing for Hope” took place. This event is a part of the “Aid for Jacek Janiszewski” campaign. The initiator of the campaign is Tadeusz Deszkiewicz, Director of RDC Radio. The idea of supporting the artist in need motivated the artistic society to actively participate in the campaign.
Owing to Alicja Węgorzewska-Whiskerd’s initiative, PhD, Director of Mazovian Music Theatre, the remarkable concert Greatest Opera Singers for Jacek Janiszewski was organised. Thirty singers performed the repertoire of the most beautiful opera and operetta pieces that touched everyone’s hearts and most of all – gave hope. For the first time, so many wonderful singers performed at one stage, making this concert the Europe-wide event.
Jacek Janiszewski is well known by the opera aficionados from numerous ravishing roles in masterpieces of such composers as Puccini, Bizet, Rossini, Verdi. His greatest success is the performance in Hanover State Theater in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail opera. He also performed in two parts of Piotr Rubik’s and Zbigniew Książka’s Tryptyk Świętokrzyski. Unfortunately, the serious illness ceased his career. The greatest opera and operetta artists answered the invitation of Mazovian Music Theatre’s Director and helped Jacek by showing their support and solidarity.
During the concert, the auction of albums, painting and CD’s took place. The auction’s objects were delivered by the artist’s friends.
The event was recorded by TVP 3 and live broadcasted by RDC Radio and web portal Niezalezna.pl.
All the performers that took part in the concert renounced their fees and donated them on artist’s account.
