Towards Polyphony

8th International Choral Conducting Competition
TOWARDS POLYPHONY 2019

Towards Polyphony 2016

Minutes of the Final Meeting of the Jury

According to the decision of the Jury o the 7th International Choral Conducting Competition TOWARDS POLYPHONY, composed of:

prof. dr hab. Marta Kierska-Witczak - the Chair
prof. Graham Lack
prof. Vytautas Miškinis
prof. Raul Talmar
prof. dr hab. Marcin Tomczak

 the following prizes have been awarded:
 

the First Prize
of 8 000 PLN goes to

LINAS BALANDIS (Lithuania)

 the Second Prize
of 5 000 PLN goes to

JAVIER FAJARDO (Spain)

the Third Prize
of 3 000 PLN goes to

IZABELA POLAKOWSKA-RYBSKA (Poland)

The Jury awarded

 HONOURABLE MENTIONS
each of 1 000 PLN to:
KAORU TANI (Austria)
PAWEŁ SZYPULSKI (Poland)

The following Special Prizes were also awarded:
A SPECIAL AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING INTERPRETATION OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
provided and granted by the Chair of Choral and Ensemble Conducting of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, goes to:

IZABELA POLAKOWSKA-RYBSKA (Poland)

THE ZYGMUNT GABRIEL URBANYI AWARD
FOR THE BEST REHEARSAL
OF A WORK BY KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
granted by Prof. Zofia Urbanyi-Krasnodębska, goes to:

LINAS BALANDIS (Lithuania)

AN AWARD FOR THE BEST REHEARSAL PERFORMANCE OF THE POLISH EARLY MUSIC
provided and granted by the Jury Chair,
Prof. Marta Kierska-Witczak, goes to:

KAORU TANI (Austria)

AN AWARD FOR THE BEST INTERPRETATION
OF A PIECE INSPIRED BY ITALIAN POETRY
granted by Monika Kwiatosz, the Honorary Consul of the Italian Republic,
goes to:

MAGDALENA LIPSKA (Poland)

A SPECIAL AWARD
- a set of scores-
for the winner of the First Prize provided by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne Edition goes to:

LINAS BALANDIS (Lithuania)

A SPECIAL AWARD
of a concert project with the NFM Choir
provided by the National Forum of Music goes to:

KAORU TANI (Austria)

THE COMPETITION CHOIR AWARD
provided and granted by members of the Academic Choir Feichtinum
of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław goes to:

LINAS BALANDIS (Lithuania)

A SPECIAL AWARD
provided and granted by the Chair of Choral Conducting
and the members of the Choir of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music
in Katowice goes to:

IZABELA POLAKOWSKA-RYBSKA (Poland)