Elsner - Moniuszko Competition 2019 5In September 2019, the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music took place in Rzeszw, whose main goal was to promote our native compositions and to draw the attention of musicians around the world to them. The auditions were divided into two categories (performances by pianists and chamber ensembles), which meant that, in less than 10 days, the audience had the opportunity to commune with countless extremely rarely performed gems

producer & beat scientist Makaya McCraven digs through the Blue Note vaults with this new remix project that puts a modern bounce on jazz classics by Art Blakey

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whose television appearances include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien and has recorded and performed with artists such as David Amram

Alicia Myers and Kevin McCord (from One Way)

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loud and frantic rockin' rhythms

Idrees Sulieman (trumpet) and Ed Thigpen (drums) amongst others

Winner of Opus Klassik award in 2019 clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has gained international recognition for what the CBC has called his "incredibly rich sound" and his distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres

absent of big defining melodies or familiar song-like structures

Belgian composer Piet Swerts translated the evident musicality in the Bestiaire poems into real melodies