On October 11 at the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Festival of Polish Composers in Bielsko-Biała, Gloria (2000) for choir and orchestra by Mikołaj Górecki was premiered. Also on the program were works by the composer’s father, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki—Canticum graduum op. 27, Dwie pieśni sakralne [Two Sacred Songs] to texts of M. Skwarnickiego Op. 30a (1971) for baritone and orchestra, and Kyrie for mixed choir…Continue Reading Mikołaj Górecki Premieres
Maestro Grzegorz Nowak continues to be in artistic demand across the world. Recently he was appointed Chief Conductor for the Orquesta Sinfonica de España and the Orquesta Clásica SantaCeciliain Madrid, Spain. Both of these orchestras are financed and managed by Fundación Excelentia. Nowak is off to a running start in Spain, leading the ensembles with a…Continue Reading Nowak in the News
Il Giardino d’Amore is a European baroque orchestra let by violinist Stefan Plewniak that performs on original instruments. They have appeared in festivals and concert halls in Europe, the United States, and Canada and, during October and November, they are on tour through New York and California. Il Giardino d’Amore’s concert programs are composed of the…Continue Reading Polish Baroque Players on US Tour
Please do not file my music under jazz. Nor under pop, folk… whatever. I embrace a lot of influences. Jazz is by far the most important in its freedom, its harmony and its sense of time but I was brought up with the old Polish folk songs. So I’m kind of rooted here in all…Continue Reading Anna Maria Jopek N. American Tour
Janusz Wawrowski has been hailed by the press “the hope bearer of the young generation of the Polish violinists” (musicwoche.de), “a virtuoso of the highest order” (Strings) and “the worthy inheritor of Yehudi Menuhin” (Polska Muza). He is a Warner Classics artist, whose latest CD Aurora (EMI 2013/ Warner 2014) has received excellent reviews in Strad, Strings, Pizzicato, Huffington Post and Polish…Continue Reading November Concerts for Wawrowski
The fourth round of conversations with composers in the series “Contemporary Music Doesn’t Bite” [Muzyka współczesna nie gryzie] was held on October 5 at the Academy of Social Sciences in Warsaw. The guest was Jarosław Siwiński, a composer and music event organizer. Siwiński, a graduate of the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, often leads projects…Continue Reading Contemporary Music Doesn’t Bite
The 2nd edition of the Institute of Music and Dance’s program Conductor-in-Residence has introduced two new pairings of Polish conductors and ensembles: Justyna Maj / Częstochowa Philharmonic [Filharmonia Częstochowska im. Bronisława Hubermana] and Paweł Pietruszewski / Lower Silesia Philharmonic [Filharmonia Dolnośląska w Jeleniej Górze]. Justyna Maj will be a conductor-in-residence at the Częstochowa Philharmonic throughout…Continue Reading 2014 IMiT Conductors-In-Residence
Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska has begun her residency at the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, taking place as part of the 4th edition of the Composer-in-Residence program financed by the Institute of Music and Dance (IMiT). As part of the residency, the Baltic Neopolis Quartet performed Fabiańska-Jelińska’s 2008 work Three pieces for string quartet on October 12, and on November 15 her 2012 Offenbarungen und…Continue Reading 2014 IMiT Composers-In-Residence
Over the course of Octobe to December, the dearly missed jazz pianist, composer and arranger Jan Jarczyk will be honored with several Tribute Concerts around the world. The first two were in Montreal—on Oct. 7 at the Centre Cuturel Georges Vanier, and on Oct. 27 at Pollack Hall of the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, where…Continue Reading Jarczyk Tribute Concerts
On November 4, Rebecca Schmid of the New York Times wrote about “Poland’s Concert Hall Revival,” which opens with a discussion of the new ICE Congress Center—ICE as an acronym for “International Conferences & Entertainment”—in Kraków: The center’s auditorium, with its terraced seating and capacity of 1,800, may seem commonplace to concertgoers in Western Europe, the United States…Continue Reading “Poland’s Concert Hall Revival”