Music, passion, atmosphere, but most of all–performing stars that can be envied by the biggest concert halls in the world–these are the basic elements of a composition called Kwartesencja.” – Art Radio From November 14-16, 2014, Polish Radio’s Lutosławski Concert Studio will resonate with the unique music conjured by the Kwartesencja Festival. Inspired and…Continue Reading Premieres at Kwartesencja 2014
On Friday, October 10, during their “Concert de musique de films France Musique – SACEM / Hommage à Roman Polanski,” the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra performed the world premiere of Paweł Mykietyn’s Hommage à Oskar Dawicki. This piece was commissioned by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. During the same concert, the winner of the 2014 Prix France Musique…Continue Reading Mykietyn Premiered In France
The 43rd Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers’ Union [ZKP] was held at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz Oct. 9-11. This annual forum is the biggest and most prestigious meeting for musicologists and music theorists in Poland. Organized under the theme of “Music Among Other Arts—Connections and Inspirations,” this year’s conference sought to demonstrate the links between music…Continue Reading World Premiere at Musicology Conference in Bydgoszcz
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